HARRY FURNISS PARODY CARTOON COMPANY
(Unlimited).
| Incorporated under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1862 and 1883. | ||
| Share capital | £4,000,000 | |
| Divided as follows: | ||
| 450,000 Ordinary Shares of £5 each | £2,250,000 | |
| 175,000 7 p.c. Cumulative Preference Shares of £10 each | 1,750,000 | |
Directors.
Chairman: H. V—— W——, Esq., Regent Street, photographer.
Sir John S—— V——, Kt., Pine Court, Kent.
H—— F——, Esq., Draughtsman and Designer, 45, Drury Lane.
HARRY FURNISS, Esq., R.R.A., R.R.I., &c.,
will join the Board as Managing Director on allotment.
A JOKE WITHIN A JOKE.
A showman, particularly with some attraction of the passing hour, must "boom his show for all it's worth," as the Americans say; so I "boomed" my "Artistic Joke" with an advertising joke, and at the same time parodied another branch of art—the art of advertising the artists, by a special number of a magazine devoted to the work of an Academician. The special numbers, generally published at Christmas, are familiar and interesting to us all. Still, from any point of view they are fair game. They are of course merely non-critical, eulogistic accounts of the artist and his work. So
"How he Did It—The Story of my 'Artistic Joke,'" duly appeared, written by my Lay-figure.