M.P.’s IN SESSION.
From MR. PUNCH’S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY.
By HARRY FURNISS.
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.
NEW MEN AND OLD ATTITUDES.
principals of the new conservative comedy company trying
to look as much as possible like the old public favourites.
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.)
“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 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.
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.”]