Harry Furniss

Harry Furniss was born in County Wexford in 1854, yet he claimed England as his own because his father came from there and his mother came from Scotland. That small theft of birthplace suits a man who drew boat races before the boats even finished rowing, then sold one drawing to soap advertisers and lost his punchy post. He fled to America, acted in films and animated cartoons for Edison, turning a lost magazine into a new kind of motion picture.