Research Catalog
Original drawings
- Title
- Original drawings [graphic] / by John Leech.
- Author
- Leech, John, 1817-1864.
- Publication
- [ca. 1864?]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Still image | Restricted use | Arents BIP (Surtees, R. Handley) AL 06-59 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864.
- Description
- 1 album (5 drawings); 24 x 31 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Five original water-color and pencil drawings for Handley Cross by Robert Surtees.
- Subjects
- Humorous pictures > Great Britain > 19th century
- Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864 > Handley Cross > Illustrations
- Drawings > Great Britain > 19th century
- Watercolors > Great Britain > 19th century
- Pencil works > Great Britain > 19th century
- Book illustrations > Great Britain > 19th century
- Graphite drawings > Great Britain > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- Book illustrations – Great Britain – 19th century.
- Humorous pictures – Great Britain – 19th century.
- Drawings – Great Britain – 19th century.
- Graphite drawings – Great Britain – 19th century.
- Pencil works – Great Britain – 19th century.
- Watercolors – Great Britain – 19th century.
- Note
- Title from spine of album.
- Reproduced as etchings in: Handley Cross, or, Mr. Jorrocks's hunt / by R.S. Surtees ; with illustrations by John Leech. London : Bradbury and Evans, 1854.
- "John Leech: Five original water-color and pencil drawings for Handley Cross by Robert Surtees"--Typescript sheet tipped in on leaf [2] at beginning.
- Drawings in pencil, heightened in watercolor; all signed "John Leech."
- Published illustrations have legends: "Mr. Jorrocks has a bye day," "Mind the bull," "Mr. Barege and the draft," "Mr. Jorrocks (loq.): 'Come hup, I say.--You ugly beast!'" and "Pigg in the melon frame" (facing p. 187, 343, 439, 106 and 485 respectively).
- Size of primary supports: 16 x 21 cm.
- Album consists of 5 leaves of light gray cardboard in which the drawings are matted, 2 blank leaves of light gray paper at beginning and 2 at end.
- Laid in: Ms. note, unsigned and undated, which reads: "The last 5 are from his pocketbook almost the last he ever carried for it was in the autumn of 1864 during his visit to Germany. He died in October ..."--Typescript note signed, 1976 Aug. 3, by Joseph T. Rankin, then curator of the George Arents Collections, which reads: "From a comparison with other Leech drawings in the Arents Collections and the executed plates, it seems likely that this set of drawings are actually copies by another ... hand, after the published plates."
- Call Number
- Arents BIP (Surtees, R. Handley) AL 06-59
- OCLC
- 64177517
- Author
- Leech, John, 1817-1864. Artist
- Title
- Original drawings [graphic] / by John Leech.
- Imprint
- [ca. 1864?]
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864. Handley Cross.
- Research Call Number
- Arents BIP (Surtees, R. Handley) AL 06-59