John Leech: Victorian Caricaturist, Cartoonist, and Illustrator (1817-1864)

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Biographical Materials Biography His friendship with Du Maurier and Millais Leech's home Leech's antisemitism Works A Gallery of His Book Illustrations A Gallery of his Punch illustrations — Andrew Cates' site containing 600 of Leech's "Sketches of Life and Character," 1840-60, indexed by title and subject A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843) Gallery Mr Fezzwig's Ball Marley's Ghost The Ghosts of Departed Usurers, or, The Phantoms Scrooge extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits The Second of the Three Spirits Ignorance and Want The Last of the Spirits Scrooge and Bob Cratchit The Chimes by Charles Dickens (1844) Gallery Trotty Veck Alderman Cute and his Friends Sir Joseph Bowley's Richard and Margret The New Year's Dance The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens (1845) Gallery John's Arrival John and Dot Caleb at Work Tilly Slowboy Mrs. Fielding's Lecture John's Reverie The Dance The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens (1846) Gallery The Parting Breakfast Snichey and Craggs The Night of the Return

The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens (1848) Gallery Redlaw and the Phantom Redlaw and the Boy The Tetterbys The Boy before the Fire Johnny and Moloch Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas Jerrold (1846) Mr. Caudle's return from "The Skylarks" Frontispiece & title-page for Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures Mr. and Mrs. Caudle Mr. and Mrs. Caudle at the Sea-side Mr. Caudle enjoys his Brandy-and-Water Initial "O" The Crying Cherub (tailpiece) Brian O'Linn by W. H. Maxwell Plate from the novel The Story of A Feather by Douglas Jerrold (1844) Frontispiece and Title-page Vignette Leech's Social Commentary in The Illustrated London News "Pony-Races on Blackheath" (1853) Fetching Home the Christmas Dinner Going to the pantomime Related Web Material A Gallery of his Punch illustrations — Andrew Cates' site containing 600 of Leech's "Sketches of Life and Character," 1840-60, indexed by title and subject

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Illustrated by John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, and Clarkson Stanfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846.

Dickens, Charles. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That rang An Old Year Out and a New Year In. Illustrated by John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, and Clarkson Stanfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1844.

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. Illustrated by John Leech. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.

Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Illustrated by John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, and Edward Landseer. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1845.

Dickens, Charles. The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. Illustrated by John Leech, John Tenniel, Frank Stone, and Clarkson Stanfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

Frith, William Powell, R. A. The Life and Work of John Leech. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1891.

Jerrold, Douglas William. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Illustrated by John Leech and Richard Doyle. London: The Offices of Punch, 1846.

Jerrold, Douglas William. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Illustrated by Charles Keene, John Leech, and Richard Doyle. London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1866.

Patten, Robert L. Chapter 6, "Marley Was Dead." Dickens, Death, and Christmas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 74-126. ISBN 978-0-19-286266-2.

Silver, Henry. “The Home Life of John Leech.” Magazine of Art 16 (1893): 162-68. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 25 October 2013.

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