DOI Heft:
No. 137 (August, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Bate, Percy H.: Joseph Crawhall, master draughtsman
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0244
Joseph Crawhall
ally delighted us with evidences of unexhausted sportsmen, and one of the finest of old English
power; rather is the writer thinking of a few gentlemen—none save himself can say; but it
painters so fastidious and so sensitive as to the certainly must have profited him greatly to be
demerits of their work that the total achievement educated by a parent who had so fine an artistic
on which their reputation is based is so trifling in faculty and so strong a delight in the quaint and
quantity as to be almost insignificant when com- unconventional as Joseph Crawhall, sen. Among
pared with that of the ordinary industrious exhibitor the claims to remembrance that the father left
whose pictures may be seen everywhere, no exhi- behind him, not the least is that of friend, intimate,
bition being deemed complete without them. and inspirer of Charles Keene, greatest of our
Joseph Crawhall, the subject of this article, black-and-white draughtsmen, who owed to his crony
possibly does not now produce one drawing in Northumberland many scores of those jokes,
a year, at any rate as far as can be gauged from fresh, racy, and of universal appeal, which, illus-
the exhibitions; but when that little work is trated by him in the pages of " Punch," have
given to the world it is a thing to see, to covet, passed into the joyous immortality of classic
and to possess if possible. humour. But the reputation of Joseph Crawhall,
In the days when this artist's work first began sen., does not rest on being the friend of any man,
to attract the notice of the discerning he was however great; that he himself was bookman as
Joseph Crawhall, junr.; for his father, who had well as sportsman, philosopher as well as humorist,
made the name one of repute and of delight to is well known to those so fortunate as to possess
many, was still alive. How much the son owes to the bibliographical oddities that he published—
the father—one of the sturdiest of Northumbrian " Chaplets from Coquetside," " Old Ffrendes with
"a coach and four"
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by joseph crawhall
ally delighted us with evidences of unexhausted sportsmen, and one of the finest of old English
power; rather is the writer thinking of a few gentlemen—none save himself can say; but it
painters so fastidious and so sensitive as to the certainly must have profited him greatly to be
demerits of their work that the total achievement educated by a parent who had so fine an artistic
on which their reputation is based is so trifling in faculty and so strong a delight in the quaint and
quantity as to be almost insignificant when com- unconventional as Joseph Crawhall, sen. Among
pared with that of the ordinary industrious exhibitor the claims to remembrance that the father left
whose pictures may be seen everywhere, no exhi- behind him, not the least is that of friend, intimate,
bition being deemed complete without them. and inspirer of Charles Keene, greatest of our
Joseph Crawhall, the subject of this article, black-and-white draughtsmen, who owed to his crony
possibly does not now produce one drawing in Northumberland many scores of those jokes,
a year, at any rate as far as can be gauged from fresh, racy, and of universal appeal, which, illus-
the exhibitions; but when that little work is trated by him in the pages of " Punch," have
given to the world it is a thing to see, to covet, passed into the joyous immortality of classic
and to possess if possible. humour. But the reputation of Joseph Crawhall,
In the days when this artist's work first began sen., does not rest on being the friend of any man,
to attract the notice of the discerning he was however great; that he himself was bookman as
Joseph Crawhall, junr.; for his father, who had well as sportsman, philosopher as well as humorist,
made the name one of repute and of delight to is well known to those so fortunate as to possess
many, was still alive. How much the son owes to the bibliographical oddities that he published—
the father—one of the sturdiest of Northumbrian " Chaplets from Coquetside," " Old Ffrendes with
"a coach and four"
220
by joseph crawhall