John Leech 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.
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Leech engraving featured in Punch
A scene from Leech's Comic History of Rome, depicting the Rape of the Sabine Women. The women are portrayed in Victorian costume being carried off from the "Corona et Ancora" ("Crown and Anchor", a common English pub sign in seafaring towns.)
Frontispiece of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, first edition 1843, illustrated by Leech
Substance and Shadow, published in Punch, 1843, the first use of the word cartoon to refer to a satirical drawing
Grave of John Leech in Kensal Green Cemetery
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About this person
John Leech 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. Leech's critical yet humorous cartoons on the Crimean War helped shape public attitudes toward heroism, warfare, and Britons' role in the world.
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Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1817 to 1864 · aged 47
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12 languages
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