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Title: A veteran naturalist : being the life and work of W.B. Tegetmeier
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Richardson, E. W. (Edmund William), b. 1861
Subjects: Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816-1912
Publisher: London : Witherby
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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caricaturingsome expression or idea. Thus Charles Bennettillustrated that delirious man Whose fancyfuses old and new, with a grotesque sketchof a monstrosity riding a nondescript creature.Edward Draper, one of the original members, andfor many years honorary solicitor to the SavageClub, who, as an artist of the grotesque wasrarely surpassed, drew an admirable likeness ofhimself as a young man in close proximity to thatof Ben Caunt, to illustrate the words as hisunlikeness fitted mine. The late T. B. Hardy,making one of Tegetmeiers party at whist, cutout. While waiting for his turn to come into thenext rubber, he asked for the book and returned AS A COLLECTOR 181 it before the end of the game, with the additionof a pretty sketch of a sailing ship. Twotypical caricatures are reprinted in this book—one by John Brough of the naturalist as a pouterpigeon, and the other by Wallis Mackay, which illustrates my first appearance in an ornitho-logical character. Another, a silhouette—it can
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An Extremely Grotesque Caricature.(By Edward Draper.) scarcely be called a caricatures—indeed, it wasdescribed by the victim as to himself, one ofthe most grateful sketches in the book, wasdrawn by my old friend, Harry Furniss. Itis at the bottom of a page held sideways, andillustrates the verse beginning, And think ofearly days and thee ... 182 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER Despite his scientific training and practical bentof mind there was a strong vein of sentimentrunning through Tegetmeiers nature, and thoughhe sold the Darwin Letters (from a motive to be Oft ^

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