Trying it on

Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836-1875), artist

Dalziel, engraver

Engraving

Fun 4 (9 March 1867): 263

Master-Tailor D*sr**li] (with he measure): — “Humph! It may require a few alterations, which, I dare say, these gentlemen will kindly point out, and no doubt. amongst us, we shall make a fit of it.”

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Unlike the artists for Punch who draw Disraeli with what they take to be an exaggerated Jewish nose, those for Fun give him an equally unrealistic straight one. In the course of their many cartoons about the political figures and the second reform Bill, Dizzy appears as, among others characters, an artist, hero from a German play, laborer, milliner, Othello, Persian Fairy, and woodsman from a popular song. —  George P. Landow

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