19世纪末年,出了一位民间工匠吴友如,此人后来以画家名世。关于吴的身世和生卒年月的历史记忆都较为模糊,只知他是苏州人,友如是他的字,后来到上海谋生,正好遇着了发行画报。世人大多有这样的印象:《点石斋画报》就是吴友如,吴友如就是《点石斋画报》。这种印象对了一半,因为他确实是《点石斋画报》的主绘,但又确实不是它的老板。吴大约卒于1893年,此后画报还存在了约5年。 At the end of the 19th century, Wu Youru, a folk artisan, was later known as a painter. About Wu’s life history and birth and death years are more vague historical memories, only to know that he is Suzhou, Friends of such as his words, and later to Shanghai to make a living, just in the case of distribution pictorial. Most people in the world have the impression: “Duan Shi Zhai Pictorial” is Wu Youru, Wu Youru is “Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial.” This impression is halfway, because he is indeed the main painting of the Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial, but it is not really its boss. Wu died about 1893, and pictorials still existed for about five years.