John Leech

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Biographical Materials

  • Biography
  • His friendship with Du Maurier and Millais

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

  • Gallery
  • Mr Fezzwig's Ball
  • Marley's Ghost
  • Ghosts' of Departed Usuers
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Gallery
  • The Parting Breakfast
  • Snichey and Craggs
  • The Night of the Return

The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens

  • Gallery
  • Redlaw and the Phantom
  • Redlaw and the Boy
  • The Tetterbys
  • The Boy before the Fire
  • Johnny and Moloch

Brian O'Linn by W. H. Maxwell

  • Plate from the novel

Leech's Social Commentary in The Illustrated London News

  • "Pony-Races on Blackheath" (1853)
University Scholars Programme

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Last modified 21 January 2005