Detail of “The Drowned Fisherman” (1896) by Michael Ancher

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Getting Up, from the series Elles, 1896 https://t.co/fQRsdrTOKx

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Autumn, by Czech painter Alfons Mucha (1896). In private collection.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman in Bed, Profile, Awakening (Femme au lit, profil, Au petit lever) from Elles, 1896 https://t.co/Hmw20pFeTJ

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Elles: Woman in Bed, 1896 https://t.co/Pj5Qiax5oR

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55) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

56) A Wicked Voice - Vernon Lee (1890)

57) The Crimson Weaver - Robert Murray Gilchrist (1895)

58) The King in Yellow - Robert Chambers (1895)

59) The Library Window - Margaret Oliphant (1896)

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The great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier who died 8 October 1896, at work and at the PUNCH Table.

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8 October 1896 the great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier died. Later in life, his eyesight failing, cartoonist became bestselling author. He gave the world the character of Svengali from his book 'Trilby'

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8 October 1896 the great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier died. His work also featured fantasmagoria and nightmarish images like these.

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8 October 1896 the great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier died. His cartoons were famed for their attacks on the Aesthetic Movement and the fads of 19th C collecting like 'Chinamania'.

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8 October 1896 the great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier died. He produced 1000s of cartoons for PUNCH, among them such classics as 'True Humility' (or the curate's egg) and 'The Six-Mark Tea-pot'

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