Sketch of Phil May

Gibson draws the British caricaturist Phil May in confident profile: a young man in a double-breasted suit and bow tie sits slightly forward on a spindly parlor chair, one leg crossed, holding what appears to be a derby hat in his lap. He grins toward an unseen audience, relaxed and self-possessed. No caption accompanies the plate; the image functions as a collegial tribute, one pen-and-ink virtuoso saluting another. May was London's reigning comic draughtsman of the 1890s, celebrated for economical line work and streetwise Cockney subjects—precisely the tradition Gibson's Life readership would have recognized and admired. The drawing's loose, hatched strokes mimic May's own sketchy bravura, making the style itself part of the compliment.