M. P.'s in Session: From Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery, Furniss [best novels in english txt] 📗
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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,
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