DETAILS
- Artist
- John Leech
- Date
- 1830
- Medium
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (22.5 × 30.2 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Samuel Scoville Jr., 1951
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THE ARTIST
John Leech
John Leech was a pioneering British caricaturist and illustrator, best known for his witty social commentary and political satire in Punch magazine.
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