Chapter 20

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1850-60.

Captain Howard--Receipt for Landscape Drawing--Earnings, Real and Ideal--George H. Thomas--Charles Keene--His Training--Introduction to _Punch_--Called to the Table--Uselessness in Council--A Strong Politician--Inherits Leech's Position--Keene as an Artist--Where He Failed--His Joke-Primers--Torturing the Bagpipes--Good Stories, Used, Spoiled, and Rejected--"Toby" as a Dachshund--Death of "Frau"--Keene's Technique--His Inventions and Creations--And what He Earned by Them--Charles Martin--Harry Hall--Rev. Edward Bradley ("Cuthbert Bede")--"Verdant Green" or "Blanco White"?--Double Acrostics--George Cruikshank Defies _Punch_--Mr. T. Harrington Wilson--Mr. Harrison Weir--Mr. Ashby-Sterry--Alfred Thompson--Frank Bellew--Julian Portch--"Cham"--G. H. Haydon--J. M. Lawless 475