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John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... ac- tually George Cruikshank—for George is a veteran now, and he took the etching needle in hand as a child. He caricatured “Boney,” borrowing not a ... ...tweak- ing a wretch of a publisher by the nose! The collectors of George’s etchings—oh the charming etchings!—oh the dear old “German Popular Tales!”—... ...the good time, OUR time—Plancus’s in fact!— the collectors of the Georgian etchings, we say, have at least a hundred pictures of the artist. Why, we r...

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