ET Reed Interviewed on his Punch Sketches 1897

Title : ET Reed Interviewed on his Punch Sketches 1897  
Author : Raymond Blathwayt
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1898
Page Count : 10
Image Count : 18
Word Count : 4,466
File Size in MB : 5.7
File Type : PDF

"It is curious to think that to the majority of living people, and, possibly, even more to posterity, our great people, the makers of history, are known mainly through the medium of the caricaturist. Their actual features, as indeed they themselves, are completely unfamiliar to the man in the street, although by means of the caricaturist he is enabled in a moment to “ spot ” a well-known personage as he passes him in a crowded thoroughfare, or as he may be fortunate enough to obtain a glimpse of him now and again either in the Houses of Parliament or upon the platform of some provincial meeting. Comparatively few of us have ever seen the Grand Old Man in the flesh , but who is there that is acquainted with Mr. Harry Furniss’s undying caricatures of him and his vast collars who would not immediately recognise him.."