Mr. Briggs and his Doings (Fishing).

£850 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Leech was one of the foremost comic illustrators of his time and could count Ruskin and Millais among his admirers. He was a regular contributor to Punch from its inception in 1841 as well as working on Dickens’s Christmas Books . These plates show one of Leech’s well-loved inventions, the intrepid but accident-prone Mr Briggs, caught in various fishing misadventures.

• Year: 1860

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