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[Chartism] A Couple of Cochranites.
[Chartism] A Couple of Cochranites. Fly Leaves No. 1.
J. Leech.
London: _ Published at the Punch Office .
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Laid on album paper.
Two street urchins attend a Chartist rally in Trafalgar Square, led by a 'Mr Cochrane', believing the goals are no 'Hincome Tax' and the 'Pastry cooks shops throw'd open to the people free, gratis, for nothink!!!'. By John Leech (1817-64).
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A Special Constable.
A Special Constable. ''It's of no use ma'am _ large bodies are not allowed to walk about, _ so you must disperce yourself.'' Fly Leaves No 2.
[John Leech.]
London. _Published at the Punch Office [1848].
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½) Glue stains in the corners of margins.
A truncheon-carrying special constable confronts a large woman. A satire on special constables being used to disperse crowds in the aftermath of the Chartist 'Monster Rally' held in Kennington Park on April 10th 1848.
[Ref: 51639]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Geoffry the Diver
Geoffry the Diver
John Leech [c.1850]
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 285 x 195mm (11¼ x 7¾"). Slight paper tone and offsetting.
Bizarre book illustration by prolific Victorian book-illustrator John Leech (1817-64) best-known for his work with Dickens.
[Ref: 33981]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Children of the Mobility [8 plates]
Children of the Mobility [8 plates]
John Leech delt.
London, Published by Richard Bentley, New Burlington St., February 1, 1841.
Eight lithographs with hand-colouring, each sheet approx 315 x 245mm (12¼ x 9½"). Soiling to first plate; all laid on backing sheets.
Early set of prints by John Leech, illustrating the satire by his friend Percival Leigh, which upon publication was so popular that Leigh and Leech were recruited to work on 'Punch' when it was formed a few months later. Leech pointedly illustrating the disparity between lower and upper class, the 'nobility and the mobility' as he called them. Leech forcefully rendered the effects of poverty through the feelings of children at work and play.
A preparatory drawing for plate 1 is in the British Museum (1893,0612.4).
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Droll Doings No. 12.   Well, Lucy dear, how do you do dear? I'm so glad you're come dear!/  (Aside) I wish the fright was at Jericho!
Droll Doings No. 12. Well, Lucy dear, how do you do dear? I'm so glad you're come dear!/ (Aside) I wish the fright was at Jericho!
J: Leech delt. [On stone lower left.]
London: W. Spooner, 377, Strand. Printed by L.M. Lefevre. [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 270mm. 14¼ x 10½". Hole upper left. Lightly soiled.
Social satire; two women greet each other, one in a bonnet. After John Leech (1817 - 1864).
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Funny Characters No 22.
Funny Characters No 22. Now then Julier do 'a done vith that pehanner and give the mangle a turn!
J.L. delt. [John Leech.]
London: W. Spooner, 377, Strand. Printed by L.M. Lefevre. [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Lightly soiled.
A plain young girl in work clothes playing the piano is admonished by a housekeeper carrying kettle and pail. Both wear metal stilts attached to their feet. After John Leech (1817-64).
[Ref: 47448]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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The Rising Generation.
The Rising Generation. Juvenile _ "I wonder whether that girl has any tin. _ for I feel most deucedly inclinded to go an cut that fellow out."
J. Leech. Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor Lith.rs.
Punch Office, 85 Fleet St. [n.d., 1848].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Faint mount burn.
Two young boys in evening dress talk like adults, discussing a pretty young woman sitting at a piano. From the series 'The Rising Generation : a Series of Twelve Drawings on Stone by John Leech; from his original designs in the gallery of Mr. Punch'.
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The Rising Generation.
The Rising Generation. Juvenile - I say Charley, that's a deucde fine girl talking to young Fipps _ I should like to catch her under the mistletoe!
J. Leech. Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor Lith.rs.
Punch Office, 85 Fleet St. [n.d., 1848].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Faint mount burn.
Two young boys in evening dress talk like adults, discussing an older couple. From the series 'The Rising Generation : a Series of Twelve Drawings on Stone by John Leech; from his original designs in the gallery of Mr. Punch'.
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The Rivals. Come, Master Jim, you let Sale alone, she aint your'n.
The Rivals. Come, Master Jim, you let Sale alone, she aint your'n. Droll Doings N.º 15.
J. Leech delt. Printed by L.M. Lefevre.
London. W. Spooner, 377, Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured lithograph with very fine colour. Sheet 330 x 265mm (13 x 10½"). Stains in edges on left.
Three street urchins talk like adults. After John Leech, an artist famous for his work for 'Punch' and Dickens's 'Christmas Carol'.
[Ref: 62327]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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