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The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house Wall Art
ART BY: John Leech
The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house Wall Art
ART BY: John Leech
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About this artwork
The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house is an etchings by John Leech (1817–1864), dated [1845]. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 3818 × 6000 px (6.8 MB). It is filed under Prints and Realism, in portrait 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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The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
