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CHAPTER XIII

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2010

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ALFRED THOMSON.

On Mr. Alfred Thomson's card, Army and Navy Club, is written, “I will endeavour to meet Mr. Sala at your office at four o'clock.” Mr. Thomson was a good artist in black and white, and on wood blocks. I remember Sala called earlier, and asked me to ask Thomson to alter in some trifling ways some wood blocks he had drawn for our, or rather Mr.Willing's, “England in the Nineteenth Century” venture. When I pointed out to Thomson Sala's wishes, he carried them out in the shortest time possible, even to rubbing out and drawing a fresh head to one of the portraits. I seem to remember we had a laugh over the fresh head business, for I asked him if he remembered the fact that, when Greenacre was hanged, one of the enterprising ballad mongers happened to have a portrait of, I think, Mr. Cobden, so he cut off the head of the picture, and put a likeness of Greenacre's in its place, a desecration in art not complimentary to the great Free Trader. Those who remember “The Mask,” will remember that Alfred Thomson did some good telling drawing for it. I have written the name as I found it on the card, but I think Captain, or perhaps Sir Alfred Thomson was his name by right. I am afraid I am right too in thinking that Thomson died in America some few years ago.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1900

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  • CHAPTER XIII
  • William Tinsley
  • Book: Random Recollections of an Old Publisher
  • Online publication: 05 October 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511707292.013
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  • William Tinsley
  • Book: Random Recollections of an Old Publisher
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  • CHAPTER XIII
  • William Tinsley
  • Book: Random Recollections of an Old Publisher
  • Online publication: 05 October 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511707292.013
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