A self-taught caricaturist from England, Philip May was a touring actor by age 15, and then moved to London at age 17 where he began his career as a caricaturist and also was a designer of theatrical costumes. When he was 20, his political cartoons were published, and at age 21, he was hired as a staff artist in Australia. From 1888 to 1890, he copied Old Masters in Rome and then returned to London where he became a leading cartoonist and social commentator.
In 1893, he spent four weeks i (showing 500 of 738 characters). |
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