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Original Pencillings

Book
1844-1854 (made)
Artist/Maker
Leech, John (artist)
Place of origin
United Kingdom (made)

11 drawings for humorous illustration in Punch, mounted in a volume containing 24 pages of cardboard, gilt-edged, full-bound in green leather with double, gold tooled, lettered on the front cover with title and book-plate of Henry Herbert Harrod inside the front cover.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Book
TitleOriginal Pencillings (series title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil on paper
Pencil
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Original Pencillings by John Leech, 11 drawings for humorous illustration in Punch between 1844 and 1854
Physical description
11 drawings for humorous illustration in Punch, mounted in a volume containing 24 pages of cardboard, gilt-edged, full-bound in green leather with double, gold tooled, lettered on the front cover with title and book-plate of Henry Herbert Harrod inside the front cover.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 241mm (Note: Measurement from: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and Department of Paintings, Accessions: 1948, Volume II, Henry Herbert Harrod Bequest, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957)
  • Size of volume width: 203mm (Note: Measurement from: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and Department of Paintings, Accessions: 1948, Volume II, Henry Herbert Harrod Bequest, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957)
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed in pencil on the sheets with captions and references to the relevant volumes of Punch
Credit line
Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod.
Subject depicted
Drawing
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and Department of Paintings, Accessions: 1948, Volume II, Henry Herbert Harrod Bequest, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.947-1948

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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