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After returning from Vienna in 1873, among the works that Farny completed over the ensuing months included a three-panel Fresco, with the pictures right and left illustrative of Scheffel’s drinking…

In 1874, Henry Farny and Dr. William Venable worked together again, producing The Amateur Actor textbook. Farny created at least ten pieces for the book. The images appear on the…

In May of 1874 Farny created several satirical cartoons for the Kladdersdatch newspaper in Cincinnati. I have been unable to locate images for these drawings. A note from an article…

For the 1872 Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, Farny entered three artworks. In the Oil Painting class Farny exhibited “Solitude” (entry #67) and in the Watercolors/Drawing Class farny shared two pen drawings:…

UPDATE: For the 9th annual Cincinnati Exposition in 1879, Farny entered another painting titled “Serpent”, winning another silver medal. Was this the same painting? There isn’t enough description in the…

In 1924, Allan Collier of the Proctor-Collier Advertising company showed the Cincinnati Literary Club two examples of ads created by Farny for the company. Farny was paid $25 each for…

In 1873, Dr. William Venable again published a book that included Farny images, this time six-signed ones. Titled The School Stage, the scanned book shows only six images with Farny’s…

Edited by John James Platt, the initial volume of The Hesperian Tree acts as a platform for well-known Ohio Valley persons to contribute specially written content. Farny contributed the story…

Edited by John James Platt, this second volume follows the formula of the first volume as a platform for well-known Ohio Valley persons to contribute specially written content. Farny contributes…

Henry Farny illustrated some of the images in this 98-page Christmas booklet, Round About a Grocery Store, Jacks Voyage Around the Globe, given away by Jos. R. Peeble’s Sons Co.,…

Farny illustrated multiple images for this Eclectic series text book titled Language lessons. The follow images appeared on the following pages, found on this link: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn1euq&seq=1 Pre-Title Page: Cows in…

Farny illustrated three images for a story called “Among the 1,000 Islands” that appeared in the April 1878 issue of Scribner’s Monthly, Volume 15, Issue 6, pages 825-842. The magazine…

Henry Farny provided a multiple pane, two-page illustration of the 1872 Cincinnati Industrial Exposition for the October 19, 1872, issue of Harpers Weekly, pages 808-809. This issue can be accessed…

Published in 1872, A School History of the United States appears to be the first collaboration between Dr. William Venable and Henry Farny. The last was in the early 1900s….

Henry Farny illustrated this amazing overview of the Pork Packing industry that was big business in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time, earning the city the nickname “Porkopolis”. Farny completed these…

Henry Farny had two sketches featured in the September 30, 1865, issue of Harpers Weekly, pages 620-621. These images and the entire issue can be seen at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/harpersweeklyv9bonn/page/620/mode/2up?q=farny According…

Farny illustrated this book by Peter G. Thomson in 1882 titled Patience -or- The Poet and the MilkMaid. The Cincinnati Library has full pages of this booklet: http://classic.cincinnatilibrary.org/record=b2730524~S1