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Title: M. P.'s in Session
       From Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery

Author: Harry Furniss

Release Date: August 1, 2009 [EBook #29560]

Language: English

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M.P.’s IN SESSION.

From MR. PUNCH’S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY.

By HARRY FURNISS.

Familiar Faces
mr. punch (cartoonist in chief). “oh, i know all you old models, i want some new ‘character’!”
Frontispiece.

london:
BRADBURY AGNEW, & CO., 8, 9, 10, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C.
1889.

PRINTED BY “Mr. PUNCH” AT

THE PRINTING OFFICES OF

Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Whitefriars, E.C.

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M.P.’s IN SESSION.

commons summoned to upper house.

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NEW MEN AND OLD ATTITUDES.

principals of the new conservative comedy company trying
to look as much as possible like the old public favourites.

getting gladstone’s collar up.

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THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER ACADEMY.

(Splendid Collection of Parliamentary Portraits, mostly done by “The Other Fellows.” The Speaking Likenesses speak for themselves and for the Artists.)

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THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER ACADEMY.

(Splendid Collection of Parliamentary Portraits, mostly done by “The Other Fellows.” The Speaking Likenesses speak for themselves and for the Artists.)

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HENRY CHAPLIN. chaplin’s opportunity.

“A ready wit and a fluent tongue are valuable auxiliaries. But force of character, consciousness of power, masculine ability in grappling with complicated questions, and that species of eloquence, the effect of which arises rather from earnestness, straightforwardness, and elevation of sentiment, than from sparkling or elaborate rhetoric, give a man a position in the House of Commons which leaves him little in need of such other gifts as we have mentioned.”—Standard, Dec. 30.

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the westminster wax-works.

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THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER ACADEMY.

(Splendid Collection of Parliamentary Portraits, mostly done by “The Other Fellows.” The Speaking Likenesses speak for themselves and for the Artists.)

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A DISCORD IN BLACK AND WHITE.

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retrospects; or, back views.

“the noes-es have it.”—1882.

some of the heads of the government.—1882.

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viscount wolmer said:—“he saw hon. members toss their heads.”
our special artist here gives the effect, showing how some
hon. members lost their heads, and how others became wrong-headed.

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PARLIAMENTARY INDEX.

1882-1888.

[The date attached to each name refers to the No. of “Punch.”]

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“welcome! little stranger.”

HARRY FURNISS’s

ROYAL ACADEMY.

he Exhibition consisted of eighty-seven pictures, in black and white of course, but otherwise similar in size and general appearance to those annually seen on the walls of Burlington House. Anyone who visited it must have seen that it was the result of many years of labour, and not a few of the pictures possessed an artistic value quite apart from their interest as pictorial travesties. A wish has been very generally expressed that some permanent record, in a portable shape, but in character consonant with the artistic purpose of the Exhibition, should be procurable by the public at large, both those who saw and those who did not see the originals at the Gainsborough Gallery and elsewhere.

To meet this wish an ALBUM, containing Reproductions of these EIGHTY-SEVEN PICTURES, with which will be included the contents of THE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, has been prepared and largely subscribed for. The issue of these Albums, however, which will be the only reproductions of the Exhibition, is strictly limited to ONE THOUSAND COPIES, each of which will be signed by the Artist.

It may be mentioned that the whole of this undertaking, from its conception to the present time, has been in Mr. Furniss’s own hands. This has enabled Mr. Furniss scrupulously to maintain the artistic character of the whole enterprise. In the preparation of this Album he has spared no time or expense in trying reproductions by the different processes at home and abroad, similar to those used in the Album of the Royal Academy Pictures of 1886, and the annual reproductions of the French Salon. Not, however, being satisfied with any of these cheaper methods, he has, regardless of the great cost, adopted the finest method of photogravure—viz., the Photo Intaglio process of A. and C. Dawson, No. 3, Farringdon Street, and Hogarth Works, Chiswick, the reproductions being made under his own supervision. Each plate is hand-printed, and will in every way surpass, for artistic quality, anything of the kind ever published.

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