Leech After John (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Xvi, 577 Pp. Reprint For Subscribers, Originally Issued In Red Wrappers. Red Morocco Binding By Riviere, Morocco Spine Labels, 5 Bands, Gilt Hunter's Riding Cap, Horse, Stag And Hound In Each Of Four Compartments With Elaborate Gilt Borders, Covers With Gilt Fox And Horseshoe Within Triple Gilt Border, All Edges Of Boards Gilt, Elaborate Gilt Turns, Marbled Endpapers, Original Wrappers Bound In At Rear With Both Covers And Spine. Near Fine, Wear At Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine Only, Binding Tight And Very Strong.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Xii, 405 Pp. Reprint For Subscribers, Originally Issued In Red Wrappers. Red Morocco Binding By Riviere, Morocco Spine Labels, 5 Bands, Gilt Hunter's Riding Cap, Horse, Stag And Hound In Each Of Four Compartments With Elaborate Gilt Borders, Covers With Gilt Fox And Horseshoe Within Triple Gilt Border, All Edges Of Boards Gilt, Elaborate Gilt Turns, Marbled Endpapers, Original Wrappers Bound In At Rear With Both Covers And Spine. Near Fine, Wear At Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine Only, Binding Tight And Very Strong.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. John Leech (after) (illustrator). This is a coloured caricature drawing on card after (I think) John Leech. It depicts the landing of Julius Caesar in Britain, although I doubt that Julius Caesar came to Britain looking like King Henry VIII, aboard a steam launch. I think it is after John Leech rather than a preparatory drawing by him for the lithograph caricature, which was published in 1850, this is because it is the same way round as the finished print (rather than reversed as a mirror image), which makes me think it is a watercolour copy of the lithograph, but I may be wrong as the drawing differs slightly from the finished print. The image is 340x 321mm. It depicts a Roman army fighting to land on the shores of Britain, dressed partly in Roman style and partly as Victorian soldiers fighting a horde of British tribesmen dressed largely in skins, who are doing their best to repel them. In the background are the White Cliffs of Dover, more Roman galleys, some rather incongruous bathing machines and a bare legged old man holding a telescope to his eye, seated on a tent. The drawing is on some browned card, the title label has been partially torn away and the design has evidently been framed some time in the past as the image is surrounded by old animal glue. This would be hidden by a new mount when reframed. There is some old masking tape to verso. John Leech (1817-64), was a British caricaturist and illustrator. He was best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy, and for being the first illustrator of Charles Dickens' 'Christmas Carol'.

Condition: Good. Color lithograph. 41 x 31 cm (sheet). Very Good, tears along left sheet, some surface scratches, light soiling.

Condition: Near Fine. John Leech (illustrator). An Original Pen and Ink Cartoon, 'Custom House Officer', circa 1853. Paper size 10.5" x 8", mounted with museum board 16" x 11.5". Captioned in ink - Old Lady: "There! let me pass, that's a good man - I've nothing in here but my night.things!". (Custom House Officer draws forth two bottles). An original drawing in ink circa 1853 from an exceptional collection of drawings by or after John Leech 1817 - 1864. Leech contributed in excess of one thousand cartoons to Punch Magazine during the middle years of the Nineteenth Century, reflecting the moods and manners of Victorian England and providing us with a unique glimpse into their lives. Leech's drawings for Punch or for book illustrations were usually quite cursory sketches, leaving the details to be completed by the wood-engravers prior to their printing for publication. Genuine, high-quality finished drawings by Leech are not unknown and do occasionally appear on the market, as opposed to the poor imitations that are sometimes seen. This small collection of pen and ink drawings are highly finished with a spontaneity and mastery of the medium to suggest they are by Leech, and although unsigned, one of the drawings in the collection is inscribed, 'Original Sketch by Mr Punch's Little Boy, 1853'. Near fine condition. (A full illustrated list of this collection is available on request).

Condition: Near Fine. John Leech (illustrator). An Original Pen and Ink Cartoon, with Watercolour wash, 'Another Bit from the Mining Districts', circa 1853. Paper size 10.5" x 8", mounted with museum board 16" x 11.5". Captioned in ink - "Another Bit from the Mining Districts". 1st Collier: "Surrey. Dust thee know the Bishop's coming To-morrow?". 2nd Collier: "What's that". 1st Collier, emphatically: "The Bishop". 2nd Collier: " Oi don't know what thee mean'st, but moy Bitch, Rose shall PIN HER!". An original drawing in ink circa 1853 from an exceptional collection of drawings by or after John Leech 1817 - 1864. Leech contributed in excess of one thousand cartoons to Punch Magazine during the middle years of the Nineteenth Century, reflecting the moods and manners of Victorian England and providing us with a unique glimpse into their lives. Leech's drawings for Punch or for book illustrations were usually quite cursory sketches, leaving the details to be completed by the wood-engravers prior to their printing for publication. Genuine, high-quality finished drawings by Leech are not unknown and do occasionally appear on the market, as opposed to the poor imitations that are sometimes seen. This small collection of pen and ink drawings are highly finished with a spontaneity and mastery of the medium to suggest they are by Leech, and although unsigned, one of the drawings in the collection is inscribed, 'Original Sketch by Mr Punch's Little Boy, 1853'. Near fine condition. (A full illustrated list of this collection is available on request).

Condition: Near Fine. John Leech (illustrator). An Original Pen and Ink Cartoon, 'Old Gentleman is very fond of Fishing', circa 1853. Paper size 10.5" x 8", mounted with museum board 16" x 11.5". Captioned in ink - "The pike is a voracious fish, and bites very readily in the Winter Months. Old Gentleman is very fond of fishing". An original drawing in ink circa 1853 from an exceptional collection of drawings by or after John Leech 1817 - 1864. Leech contributed in excess of one thousand cartoons to Punch Magazine during the middle years of the Nineteenth Century, reflecting the moods and manners of Victorian England and providing us with a unique glimpse into their lives. Leech's drawings for Punch or for book illustrations were usually quite cursory sketches, leaving the details to be completed by the wood-engravers prior to their printing for publication. Genuine, high-quality finished drawings by Leech are not unknown and do occasionally appear on the market, as opposed to the poor imitations that are sometimes seen. This small collection of pen and ink drawings are highly finished with a spontaneity and mastery of the medium to suggest they are by Leech, and although unsigned, one of the drawings in the collection is inscribed, 'Original Sketch by Mr Punch's Little Boy, 1853'. Near fine condition. (A full illustrated list of this collection is available on request).

Condition: Near Fine. John Leech (illustrator). An Original Pen and Ink Cartoon, with Watercolour wash, 'Crimea', circa 1853. Paper size 10.5" x 8", mounted with museum board 16" x 11.5". "Crimea", appears as a newspaper headline within the drawing. Captioned in ink - Johnny, R-U: "I say, Abby, My old-un. The Vestminster Sessions is fired for the 19th. If you ain't prepared with your Defence you'd better cut". The caricatures being, Earl John Russell, Prime Minister, 1865-1866 and George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister, 1852-55. An original drawing in ink circa 1853 from an exceptional collection of drawings by or after John Leech 1817 - 1864. Leech contributed in excess of one thousand cartoons to Punch Magazine during the middle years of the Nineteenth Century, reflecting the moods and manners of Victorian England and providing us with a unique glimpse into their lives. Leech's drawings for Punch or for book illustrations were usually quite cursory sketches, leaving the details to be completed by the wood-engravers prior to their printing for publication. Genuine, high-quality finished drawings by Leech are not unknown and do occasionally appear on the market, as opposed to the poor imitations that are sometimes seen. This small collection of pen and ink drawings are highly finished with a spontaneity and mastery of the medium to suggest they are by Leech, and although unsigned, one of the drawings in the collection is inscribed, 'Original Sketch by Mr Punch's Little Boy, 1853'. Near fine condition. (A full illustrated list of this collection is available on request).

Condition: Near Fine. John Leech (illustrator). An Original Pen and Ink Cartoon, with Watercolour wash, 'Remanded', circa 1853. Paper size 10.5" x 8", mounted with museum board 16" x 11.5". Captioned in ink - "Remanded". J-Y R-S-LL: "Well, Old boy. What Luck?" A-D-N: "Weel, I'm just remanded tiu next sessions." The caricatures being, Earl John Russell, Prime Minister, 1865-1866 and George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister, 1852-55. An original drawing in ink circa 1853 from an exceptional collection of drawings by or after John Leech 1817 - 1864. Leech contributed in excess of one thousand cartoons to Punch Magazine during the middle years of the Nineteenth Century, reflecting the moods and manners of Victorian England and providing us with a unique glimpse into their lives. Leech's drawings for Punch or for book illustrations were usually quite cursory sketches, leaving the details to be completed by the wood-engravers prior to their printing for publication. Genuine, high-quality finished drawings by Leech are not unknown and do occasionally appear on the market, as opposed to the poor imitations that are sometimes seen. This small collection of pen and ink drawings are highly finished with a spontaneity and mastery of the medium to suggest they are by Leech, and although unsigned, one of the drawings in the collection is inscribed, 'Original Sketch by Mr Punch's Little Boy, 1853'. Near fine condition. (A full illustrated list of this collection is available on request).

Chromolithograph, on original mount. Title and credits trimmed from bottom margin of mount. A delightful image of three fashionable young ladies and their younger siblings, all enjoying the benefits of a day beside the sea. An unusually large scale work from the famous illustrator of Dickens, Surtees, Thackeray and others. In 1862 John Leech 'essayed a series of so-called "sketches in oil," which were exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, in June and the following months. These consisted of copies of a selection of his Punch drawings, which had been ingeniously enlarged, transferred to canvas, and coloured lightly in oils. As the artist advanced with this process he considerably improved it in detail, and his exhibition was a great success (it brought him nearly 5,000 pounds), to which a friendly notice by Thackeray (Times, 21 June) not a little contributed. His gift for seizing fugitive expression and for mentally registering transitory situation was extraordinary. Long practice had made it unerring in its way, and Leech perhaps wisely concentrated his attention upon these points. Yet he possessed, like Keene, a marvellous faculty for landscape, and in many cases the backgrounds to his sketches are in themselves of striking beauty. No words define his general position in art better than Mr. Ruskin's: His work contains the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society; the kindest and subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways, with which the modesty of subservient genius ever immortalised or amused careless masters. (DNB). Here a teenage girl in a great, round crinoline skirt that balloons in the wind walks a thin plank that leads to a bathing booth, while her friend (sister?) watches impassively, the mother reads her book and the little children play oblivious to the little contest going on nearby.