Author: Leech, John (artist)
Title: Mr. Briggs, Through the Influence of a Friend, Has a Day's Spring Fishing, Wind North-East. Miller. "Don't They Really! Perhaps They'LL Rise Better Towards the Cool of the Evening, They Mostly Do!" Plate 6: From "Mr. Briggs & His Doings .
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 11 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, c.a 1860. Hand-colored wood-engraving. Framed, matted and glazed. 13 x 8.5 inches in mate and frame 18.5 x 13.5 inches. From the rare fly fishing print portfolio by the prolific and popular Victorian caricaturist and illustrator John Leech, comprising 12 prints that depict a humorous pictorial account of Mr. Briggs and his fishing adventures. John Leech was one of the most prolific and successful of the English artists and caricaturists of the mid 19th century. Although influenced by contemporaries such as Gillray and Cruikshank, his satirical depictions of society and the foibles of the middle and upper classes were described by one writer as "less grotesque, less boisterous, less exaggerated, nearer to the truth and to ordinary experience." However, he held fairly radical political views for his time, and also produced pointed drawings in favor of universal suffrage and questioning the morality of the capitalist system. In 1841, he was recruited by the newly founded Punch, and became a major contributor to the success of the magazine over the next twenty-three years, publishing a total 3,000 drawings and 600 cartoons there. He also produced illustrations for other magazines and for books including Surtees's sporting novels and Charles Dickens' first edition of A Christmas Carol. The influential Victorian critic John Ruskin wrote an appreciation of Leech's work upon his death in 1864: "John Leech's work contains the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society; the kindest and the subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways, with which the modesty of subservient genius ever immortalised or amused careless masters." References: "Caricature and the Literature of Sport. Bibliography. Punch." The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. 1907-21. .
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Title: Mr. Briggs, Through the Influence of a Friend, Has a Day's Spring Fishing, Wind North-East. Miller. "Don't They Really! Perhaps They'LL Rise Better Towards the Cool of the Evening, They Mostly Do!" Plate 6: From "Mr. Briggs & His Doings .
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 11 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, c.a 1860. Hand-colored wood-engraving. Framed, matted and glazed. 13 x 8.5 inches in mate and frame 18.5 x 13.5 inches. From the rare fly fishing print portfolio by the prolific and popular Victorian caricaturist and illustrator John Leech, comprising 12 prints that depict a humorous pictorial account of Mr. Briggs and his fishing adventures. John Leech was one of the most prolific and successful of the English artists and caricaturists of the mid 19th century. Although influenced by contemporaries such as Gillray and Cruikshank, his satirical depictions of society and the foibles of the middle and upper classes were described by one writer as "less grotesque, less boisterous, less exaggerated, nearer to the truth and to ordinary experience." However, he held fairly radical political views for his time, and also produced pointed drawings in favor of universal suffrage and questioning the morality of the capitalist system. In 1841, he was recruited by the newly founded Punch, and became a major contributor to the success of the magazine over the next twenty-three years, publishing a total 3,000 drawings and 600 cartoons there. He also produced illustrations for other magazines and for books including Surtees's sporting novels and Charles Dickens' first edition of A Christmas Carol. The influential Victorian critic John Ruskin wrote an appreciation of Leech's work upon his death in 1864: "John Leech's work contains the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society; the kindest and the subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways, with which the modesty of subservient genius ever immortalised or amused careless masters." References: "Caricature and the Literature of Sport. Bibliography. Punch." The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. 1907-21. .
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Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-3172
- Book number: 51-3172
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