TONY WELLER OF THE BELLE SAUVAGE
FRANK REYNOLDS, R. I.
BY A. E. JOHNSON
CONTAINING 46 EXAMPLES
OF THE ARTIST'S WORK
IN BRUSH, PEN, AND PENCIL
PREFACTORY NOTE
In presenting under the title of "Brush, Pen, and Pencil" the series of booksof which the present volume forms part, the publishers feel that they aremeeting a demand which has long existed but has hitherto not been supplied. Itis an unfortunate circumstance of the conditions which affect the modern artistwho chooses black and white for his principal medium, that as a general rulehis work—or, at all events, the reproduction of it—is ephemeral only. Inrespect of much that appears in the illustrated Press this is small matter forregret; but there is good reason to believe that opportunities of obtaining inpermanent form some record of the work of the leading men amongst those artistswho work for the Press would be welcomed. It is to afford such opportunitiesthat the present series is issued; and it is hoped that in the volumescomposing it the public will have pleasure in finding representative examplesof the work with brush, pen, and pencil of the men whose skill and fancy havefrom time to time delighted them.
For permission to reproduce a very large number of the drawings by Mr.Frank Reynolds which appear in the present volume the publishers wishto acknowledge the courtesy of the proprietors of the Sketch,in the pages of which they first appeared. Their thanks are equallydue to Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd. for kind permission toreproduce three drawings from the pages of Punch.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR
TONY WELLER OF THE BELLE SAUVAGE
THE INTRODUCTION
FRIVOLITY
THE WARRENER
IN BLACK AND WHITE
STUDY IN PENCIL
PEN-AND-INK DRAWING FROM "PUNCH"
WORKING PARIS AT LUNCHEON
THE DARE-DEVILS
"CHACUN" WITH HIS "CHACUNE"
BETHNAL GREEN
THE REAL ARTIST
NOTE FROM A PARIS SKETCH-BOOK
THE SUBURBANITE
FIRST SKETCH FOR THE SUBURBANITE
A GOOD STUDY
PEN-AND-INK DRAWING FROM "PUNCH"
A TRAGEDY IN MINIATURE
OUR CLUB
HAVING THE TIME OF HER LIFE
LE 'IGH KICK
A SPEECH AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT
FELIX OF THE "LAPIN AGILE"
VIVE L'ARMÉE
"GAZED ON HAROLD"
FROM A PARIS SKETCH-BOOK
THE DES(S)ERTS OF BOHEMIA
GOING IT!
Also Nineteen smaller illustrations mostly reproduced fromsketch-books
FRANK REYNOLDS. I.
It has been said of Tolstoy, anatomising the grim skeleton of human nature,that his writings are more like life than life itself. Of Frank Reynolds, withgently satirical pen and pencil depicting the superficial humours of modernlife, it might be said that his drawings, too, are more humanly natural thanreal flesh and blood. It is the peculiar faculty of the true observer that hiseye pierces straight to the heart of what he sees, and his mind, disregardingmere detail, thereby receives and retains a clear perception of the essential,which those of less clear and direct vision fail to grasp more thanmomentarily, though they hail it with instant recognition when in its nakedsimplicity it is set before them. The process is unconscious, or