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A woman refusing to get into a cab believing she will catch smallpox, the driver humorously reassures her Wall Art
ART BY: John Leech
A woman refusing to get into a cab believing she will catch smallpox, the driver humorously reassures her Wall Art
ART BY: John Leech
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A woman refusing to get into a cab believing she will catch smallpox, the driver humorously reassures her is a humorous pictures, wood engravings by John Leech (1817–1864), dated 1863. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 6000 × 4799 px (6.7 MB). It is filed under Prints and Realism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 113 works by John Leech, a British artist.
John Leech was a British caricaturist and illustrator. He was best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by John Leech →
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