Harry Furniss was a British illustrator. He established his career on the Illustrated London News before moving to Punch. He also illustrated Lewis Carroll's novel Sylvie and Bruno.
Furniss aged 26, at about the time he started to work for Punch.
Furniss's caricature of William Ewart Gladstone
Furniss Family grave site, Hastings, England, refurbished in 2018 by Great Grandson; Noël Mark Furniss (California-USA)
"I used your soap two years ago and have not used any other since", a Punch cartoon drawn by Furniss, parodying Thomas J. Barratt's adverts for Pears soap
Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration. Artists at Punch included John Tenniel who, from 1850, was the chief cartoon artist at the magazine for over 50 years.
John Leech, Substance and Shadow (1843), published as Cartoon, No. 1
1861: 24 August cover shows Pope Pius IX delivering weapons to the Southern Italian brigands.
Editorial meeting of Punch magazine in the late 19th century
Victorian prostitutes, Punch 1857
