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

Chapter 1: M.P.’s IN SESSION.
By Harry Furniss
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A compact gallery of satirical pen-and-ink portraits and cartoons depicting parliamentary figures and scenes, pairing lively caricature with concise captions and editorial notes. The artist lampoons established personalities and new arrivals alike, emphasizing mannerisms, postures, and recurring political types through exaggerated likeness and comic detail. Interwoven with the images are accounts of the exhibition and the chosen reproduction process, including a limited photogravure album, so the volume serves both as a sequence of political character sketches and as a record of the works’ presentation and publication.

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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]
Most recently updated: January 5, 2021

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK M. P.'S IN SESSION: FROM MR. PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY ***

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.

M.P.’s IN SESSION.

 

commons summoned to upper house.

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.

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.)

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.)

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.

the westminster wax-works.

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.)

A DISCORD IN BLACK AND WHITE.

retrospects; or, back views.
“the noes-es have it.”—1882.
some of the heads of the government.—1882.

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.

PARLIAMENTARY INDEX.

1882-1888.

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