Salvini

Harry Furniss, son of an English engineer, was born in Wexford, Ireland, and worked as an artist. He moved to England in 1876 and worked highly successfully for the Illustrated London News. He began contributing to Punch in 1880 and in 1884 he joined its staff, illustrating (for example) the 'Essence of Parliament' as well as supplying articles, jokes, illustrations and dramatic criticism. He left Punch in 1894 when it sold the copyright of one of his drawings to Pears Soap for advertising and started his own cartoon magazine, Like Joka. When it failed he moved to the USA and worked in the film industry with Thomas Edison. In 1914 Furniss helped pioneer the animated cartoon film.
Tommaso Salvini was an Italian tragedian, born in Milan, in 1830. He performed children's parts at the age of thirteen, later joining the troupe of Adelaide Ristori. After fighting in the Italian war for independence in 1849, he returned to the stage, and, by his impersonation of the title-ro1es of Giuseppe Nicolini's "Edipo" and Vittorio Alfieri's "Saul," achieved an European reputation. In 1871 he visited South America, and in 1873-4 he made a tour in the United States.