[5] When the purchase was completed, a curious making-up of accounts proceeded between the parties as to the wood-blocks which were to accompany the paper. These accounts, referring to the titles of the engravings, read curiously enough. Here is a specimen:—
| No. 22. | £12 | 10 | 6 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deduct Collared Beef | 4 | 6 | £12 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| —————— | ||||||||||
| No. 25. | ||||||||||
| Brown's wrapper (i.e. Frontispiece drawn by "Phiz"--Hablôt K. Browne) | 15 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 0 | ||||
| Deduct | 2 | 7 | 0 | |||||||
| —————— | ||||||||||
| 13 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||
| No. 32. | ||||||||||
| Deduct. | £ | s. | p. | Add. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| Bald head | 0 | 8 | 0 | Concert-piece | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
| Great Sale in Beer | 0 | 4 | 0 | Collared Beef | 0 | 4 | 6 | |||
| Highwayman | 0 | 5 | 0 | Tall lady | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Leg of Muttone | 0 | 5 | 0 | Tall lady | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
| Turning over a Page | 0 | 3 | 0 | Adder-up | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 18 | 0 |
| Betrayed | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||||
| Letter P | 0 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
| —————— | ||||||||||
| £2 | 7 | 0 | ||||||||
These cuts were for the most part drawn by Brine, Hine, and Newman.
[6] It is a curious fact that the biographer of Hablôt K. Browne is altogether silent on his Punch work, although it lasted with intervals over a quarter of a century. The particulars of this work are referred to further on, when Punch's artists are passed in review.
[7] The initials and monograms appear in the following order round the Table: 1, Mark Lemon; 2, F. C. Burnand (second carving, after stencil by Prof. Herkomer, R.A.); 3, John Tenniel; 4, Shirley Brooks; 5, Arthur à Beckett; 6, R. C. Lehmann; 7, W. M. Thackeray; 8, Henry Silver; 9, Harry Furniss; 10, John Leech; 11, G. du Maurier; 12, W. Bradbury; 13, Douglas Jerrold; 14, E. J. Milliken; 15, F. M. Evans; 16, Tom Taylor; 17, Linley Sambourne; 18, Phil May; 19, J. Bernard Partridge; 20, E. T. Reed; 21, H. W. Lucy; 22, F. C. Burnand (first carving); 23, Gilbert à Beckett; 24, Anstey Guthrie; 25, Horace Mayhew; 26, Percival Leigh. Charles H. Bennett died before he could complete his monogram, and Mr. R. F. Sketchley neglected the duty—an omission he ever after regretted.
[8] See Punch cartoon, "Who will Rouse Him?" (March 12th, 1859).
[9] Who subsequently put Hood's "Song of the Shirt" to music (published from the Punch office, price 2s. 6d.), as well as the "Songs for the Sentimental," "Punch's own Polka" (printed in Punch September 7th, 1844), and probably also "The Queen's Speech, as it is to be sung by the Lord Chancellor" (Punch, Feb., 1843).
[10] "Daily Chronicle," August 26th, 1892.
[11] This, with the Pharaoh pro-Jewish picture at the time of the Russian persecutions, is said to be the only cartoon founded on a strictly Biblical or Scriptural subject ever published in Punch.
[12] See p. 108, Vol. XXXIII.:—