After John Leech colour print, inscribed ' Come Hup I Say You Ugly Brute

Depicting a hunting scene Published by Thomas Agnew 1865

John Leech

Cartoonist, caricaturist, and illustrator famous for his work for Punch. Leech was educated at Charterhouse, and then studied medicine, but turned to art. From 1841 he contributed hundreds of sketches of middle-class life and political cartoons to Punch, as well as to the Illustrated London News (1856) and Once a Week (1859-62). He illustrated several books, including Dickens's A Christmas Carol and the sporting novels of R. S. Surtees.