Juvenile: I say Charley, that's a jeuced fine girl

Juvenile: I say Charley, that's a jeuced fine girl by John Leech

Medium

Watercolor and pen and brown ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper

Classification

watercolor

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

39080

About the Artist

John Leech · 18171864

John Leech (1817–1864) was born in London and educated at Charterhouse, where he formed a lifelong friendship with William Makepeace Thackeray. He briefly studied medicine before abandoning it for art, publishing his first comic character studies from London street life as early as 1835. Though largely self-taught as an illustrator, he absorbed the robust tradition of English caricature establishe...

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