Tattooing Extraordinary.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5029, 10 June 1889, Page 2

Tattooing Extraordinary.

Much amusement has been caused to news* paper readers by the repudiation from an Anglo-Cbinese paper of an interview with a celebrated tattooer resident in Hong Kong, who is said to make £I2OO a-year by his calling, and who is so careful of his artistic reputation that be thinks it necessary to announce by a placard outside his shop that “I do not business when fuddled.” He boasts among his dents an English prince and an English peer whom he was a month in tattooing, and on whose trunk and limbs ho executed a series of historical pictures at an expense of £ioo. There is great curiosity togidentify the peer in question. Hitherto, remarks the Argus London correspondent, it was supposed that Lord Charles Beresford was the only member of the British aristocracy at| all as elaborately tatooed as that j and it cannot bo he, because the vast panorama with which His Lordship is adorned was the work of his late Chinese servant, “Tom Fat,” a man who, possessing every other human virtue except that of keep, ing accurate racing accounts, was baled to the law some years ago by his sorrowing master, and has long ago disappeared from the scene. Lord Charles Beresford’s great corporeal panorama consists of a fox hunt, and includes representations of the field, the master, the huntsman, two whips, 30 couple of hounds, and a portion of the fox. It is done serpent fashion, and it is necessary to roll the patient over several times before the full beauties of the work can he grasped. It has always been regarded as the greatest pictorial triumph of the kind now on earth. But it has yet to be compared with the £IOO job of tho Hongkong artist.