John Leech was an English caricaturist and illustrator educated at Charterhouse with his friend and fellow artist (of the pen), Thackeray. Leech studied medicine but soon abandoned it for art. His first work appeared under the title Etchings and Sketchings of A. Pen, Esq. (1835) and was followed by drawing for Robert Bell's Life in London (1822). From 1841 until his death, Leech was associated with the periodical Punch. His many brilliant social and political cartoons for this magazine were published separately as Picture of LIfe and Character and Pencilings form Punch. He also contributed to Once a Week and the Illustrated London News, and he illustrated Dicken's Christmas Stories, Beckett's Comic Histories of England and Rome, and popular sporting novels of the day.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, c. 1960.
Acarnane Rondeletius (Fish with descriptive text)
Historiae Animalium 1551-1587 1555 Edition
Konrad von Gesner
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