FAMOUS "PUNCH" ARTIST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 222, 19 March 1914, Page 5

FAMOUS "PUNCH" ARTIST.

TilK LATE SIR JOHN TBN@EL. The late Sir John Timrijcl, nrajter of creature, retired from-the {gaff of " 1 unch " thirteen years ago aSr o?er [< 'ty years of unceasing activity Dur- ' iii-.i alt this period Sir John wAiiwent -* (illy half a dozen times from thß-Jviwkly - ■'' ' •'Punch" dinner, and by jo'clock ' -;; each Friday nightHrW Arming jjtsually * « made directly on the "woo?blookTwonid ' ■ * One of ~tfif l; wonflera of " Punch "is still the prescience flapUy-d > in the chief cartoons, and'very weir in- ' a deed has an error been conrmittef. The Tfj Tennicl gallery remains.as a history of the highest wipe. aSiere to , '"' probably a consensus of opinion that lie eartoonist reached his widVst sriM in til* famous "Dropping the 'Pilo'/TJef. few noted at the time the additional note o* bereavement—Tenniel's owriHas Bis mprek was passing from his timii uu«. 'l he first Tenuiel " Big cut," aslae prin- ' • cipal drawing was called, appealed as far ' - kek as 1851. Tenmel haU F ironed ' *' "Punch" at Ohristmas, 1830, onjthe re- ',' ■'ignation of Richartl Doyle, if,, hid "' '' taken umbrage at "Pujol's"Qriilicy in rtgnrc. to the Catholics. " Douglas Mrold had discerned Tenniel's 'niortli in -■ the illustrations to " Aesop'jfcfobles," '\ and had recommended hjm. fifviously ti'ft young artist iiad ,\jon a fijto prist H for his "Allegory of Justice," itt%e «om« 3 petition for the decoration of fchb Hoiue ~si of Parliament.. His painting §»f Dry*. -.'^j den's "St. Cecilia" in theP«Poei , ii '-/{ Hall" has. alas! faded with thfckst. Hit & first cartoon was "Lord Jack He Giant 'jj Killer," the subject b'efng alight be- jjr tween Lord John Russell witlrfswora, s aid Cardinal Wiseman, vsth riroaer. ';!* At the farewell dinner to hifcjon June '■% 12, 1901, Mr. Balfour, as one offis "p»e- -."i destined victitts," paid a full fafbute to "1 the justice, courage, and restrHt of hi* J masterly gifts. To the oarieSure* by „r]J Sir John TennjsJ.foJPtfccV' Mmoerlt *3 over 2000, it i»«ert«Sn that fi& *utnr« -5& historian must .turn .in ordeOo grai»» "*i; the trend and.v .cjiijaoter cH English !fjj thought duringTTaJr of the BTOeteent!' "% century. Thejteeir^^^n^^faM^y^^Jyj was . labours fiti& of . nese of his victiiu. «n biddlmWl himself bereft of &,, >4r ™ Birwfl . farewell to his Men*}*. Ituation-Jit '" admirably descTibe:d "the Bi£'m p . o„p made .one "W lpve.fwith sillm-' ■ eminent speaker -after _ another"Vos. •■». render tribute to tWimany-sidediSartistii. genius of their guest and tohfs'woiieUi'f il fairness in holding the political I-*!-/"'* ance. The late Duke of De-.cuihhv van'"- 1 especially happy in his appreciation, nml . told the' story of Qlad,sto,nß'a , fflßstant ■ interest in Tenniel'e cartoons. .. ,'z The affliction of blindness overtoik * the famous artist several JJPBJ* Npi * n * ■"'" his physical strength nncf •alcrtntss of g mind were, preserved to a wondcrf'l dc> ■. ,j gree. „.. *■ , ■-•tsi-t- *. , *^r

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