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Sir Frank Lockwood.

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forgotten celebrities in that case. The following sketch, the drawing of " Mr. sketches were sold at a shop in the Bur Inderwick on thin ice," is a very clever lington Arcade, and Sir Frank was fond of portrait, exaggerated, of course, by the art telling how recently he met a stranger who of the caricaturist, of the leader of the told him that he was the fortunate possessor divorce court bar. of the series. This was the first and last Soon after Sir Frank's death, a project time that Sir Frank made money out of his was started to bring together as many as art, for, although he pursued it, and many possible of his sketches, and exhibit them.

of his productions were This result has been ac gladly published by complished, and the ex "Punch " and other hibition has attracted prominent papers, h e wide attention, and will would not accept com yield a considerable rev pensation for them. The enue to a charity in majority of them found which Sir Frank Locktheir way into the hands wood was deeply inter of his associates at the ested. Altogether, there bar, and his fellow-mem are several hundreds of bers in the House of the drawings — a large Parliament, by whom collection, though the they are now highly catalogue states that it prized. Vigorous as his forms but an " infini strokes were, none of tesimal portion" of them cut unkindly, and those known to be in by none were they more existence. It is impos eagerly sought after sible to give in a few than their subjects. A sentences any idea of frequent object of his the variety of these pencil was Murphy, Q. sketches, made as they C, who has recently re were on scraps of paper tired from practice, and in court or in the House who, late in life, became of Commons, or as illus extremely corpulent. trations to letters writ His sketch of Murphy MR. INDERWICK. ten to friends. But the (From an original sketch in the Divorce Court.) opening the case for his majority are legal, and client, a corporation, is the most numerous a good illustration of the artist's facility in subject is the late Lord Chief Justice Cole making an admirable likeness in a few ridge, whom the amateur artist never seemed strokes of the pen — for it is Murphy to to weary of depicting — on the bench, in the life. society, at Henley, and in all sorts of ways. Equally good is Murphy in Highland Those who met Lord Coleridge in his tour costume, drawn on the back of a brief — in in America can readily understand what a fact, nearly all of Sir Frank's sketches were capital subject he made, and how his long, made on the fly-leaf of briefs, scraps of thin figure and face, the high forehead and paper or blotting pads, while sitting waiting long chin, and the expressions, varying from courtier-like urbanity to extreme severity, for his case to be called on. Remarkable as it may appear from the lent themselves naturally to the caricaturist.