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diff --git a/44801-0.txt b/44801-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8041b8b --- /dev/null +++ b/44801-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2212 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44801 *** + +FOUR HUNDRED HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATIONS + +By John Leech + +With Portrait and Biographical Sketch. + +1868 + + + + +BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. + +John Leech was born in London, on the 29th August, 1817. His father, +John Leech, was an Irishman, a man of fine culture, and a good +Shakespearean scholar. He was the landlord of the London Coffee House on +Ludgate Hill, one of the most important of the city hotels at that time. +For a while the father was successful in his vocation, but ultimately, +through financial embarrassment, was obliged to give up the hotel. + +The father was a man of real ability, possessing considerable skill +with the pencil, and from him, no doubt, the son inherited his special +talent. And, again, on the mother's side there was relationship with the +great scholar Richard Bentley, so that on both sides of the house +young Leech had considerable advantages so far as mental heredity was +concerned. + +At a very early age the mother observed the extraordinary aptitude for +drawing that her boy possessed, and did all in her power to encourage +it. When young Leech was only three years old, he was found by the +family friend, the great artist, Flaxman, seated on his mother's knee, +drawing with much gravity. The sculptor pronounced his sketch to be +remarkable, and gave the following advice:--"Do not let him be cramped +with lessons in drawing, but let his genius follow its own bent. He will +astonish the world." A few years after this, some more of the youthful +artist's drawings were shown to the celebrated sculptor, and, after +examination, he said--"The boy must be an artist; he will be nothing +else or less." + +At seven, the boy was sent to Charterhouse. This early departure from +home was, of course, a sore trial to the fond mother, who was bound up +in her child, but, knowing that it was for her son's future welfare, +she threw no obstacles in the way of his departure from home. She was, +however, resolved that somehow she would see her child frequently. With +this object she hired a room in one of the houses commanding a view of +the playground, and there frequently she sat behind a blind, happy +in getting an occasional glimpse of her boy--sometimes at play, and +sometimes strolling about in the grounds with his school mates. During +his stay of nine years at Charterhouse, the boy did not distinguish +himself in classical studies. Indeed, all that can be said, is that he +acquired a thoroughly sound English education. He was, however, liked +by everyone at school for his good temper and winning ways. Among his +fellow pupils was the famous William Makepeace Thackeray, with whom he +formed a warm friendship that lasted throughout life. + +At sixteen years of age, young Leech left Charterhouse, and, +notwithstanding Flaxman's advice that the boy should follow the +profession of an artist, his father put him to the medical profession at +St. Bartholomew's, under Mr Stanley, the surgeon of the Hospital. After +a time he was placed under Mr Whittle, an eccentric practitioner at +Hoxton, and subsequently under Dr John Cockle, afterwards physician to +the Royal Free Hospital. Throughout his various situations, young Leech +become famous among his fellow students and friends for his extremely +clever--and, at the same time, always good-natured--caricatures. He was +for ever drawing scenes, characters, and incidents in daily life. About +this time, young Leech's liking for horses probably received its first +development, through his friendship with Mr Charles Adams. Mr Adams +was the owner of two horses which it was his delight to drive tandem +fashion, and in his excursions Leech was his constant companion. To this +circumstance we are, no doubt, partially indebted for many of the clever +bits of driving and country road life depicted by the pencil of the +artist. At this early period of his career, Leech made numerous life +friendships with men who afterwards became distinguished. Notable among +these men were Albert Smith and Percival Leigh. + +At eighteen years of age, Leech published his first work, entitled +"Etchings and Sketchings by A. Pen, Esq." It was a small work of four +quarto sheets. As he got more and more engrossed in artistic work, the +young student seems to have gradually given up his medical studies, and +to have resolved to live by his pencil. In course of time he turned his +attention to lithography, and, having drawn pictures upon lithographic +stones, he has been known to spend many a weary day in carrying such +heavy stones from publisher to publisher in search of a buyer. But as +his fame increased, the difficulty of getting remunerative employment +rapidly diminished. A good deal of Leech's early work, among other +things, was in connection with _Bell's Life in London_, the best-known +sporting paper of the time. Here he was associated with Cruikshank, +Madons, "Phiz," and Seymour. It was when at work for _Bell's Life_ that +he first imbibed a taste for field sports, which developed into a strong +feature in his pictorial career. He joined the hounds in Herefordshire, +where Millais became his fellow pupil in acquiring the arts of the +chase. Among the schemes of drollery that our artist participated in +about this time was the _Comic Latin Grammar_, Leigh contributing the +text, and Leech the illustrations. This was followed by the _Comic +English Grammar_, and likewise by the _Children of the Mobility_, a +parody on a well-known work devoted to the serious glorification of our +juvenile aristocracy. + +But in August of 1841 Leech began the great work of his life--a work, +indeed, which he never quitted but with life--namely, his connection +with _Punch_. The first number of _Punch_ was issued on the 17th July, +1841, and Leech's first contribution to it appeared on the 7th August, +in the fourth number. For about twenty years, it may be said, he was its +leading spirit, and, by his contributions to its pages, got in all about +£40,000. Political caricatures he produced by the score, and held up +to ridicule many of the absurd customs of the pretensious and exclusive +sections of Society. Like Thackeray and Dickens, Leech detested snobbery +in all walks of life, and depicted it unsparingly in a way that it never +had been dealt with before. Week after week there flowed from his pencil +an endless stream of scenes of high life and low life, of indoor life +and street life, now of England, and then of foreign lands, and of all +times, seasons, and occasions, as also numerous scenes of deer-stalking +and fishing, and of horses and hounds, in all cases depicting whatever +he undertook with extraordinary accuracy combined with infinite humour. +Also, when social or national wrong called for grave censure, Leech knew +how to administer it, not only without giving unnecessary offence, but +in the way best calculated to bring about reform and redress. In all +circumstances he was essentially a humorist, and he found his most +genial vocation in depicting life and character in the social circles +he frequented. As a keen observer of the everyday life around him, he +delighted to depict the corporation magnate, the artist, the medical +student, the spendthrift, the policeman, the cab driver, the coster, +the carman, and hundreds of other such phases of everyday life and +character, seeing humour and drollery where others failed to observe +anything but the commonest aspects of everyday monotony. Of course it +should not be forgotten that, if Leech did great things for _Punch_, his +connection with that journal gave him great opportunities, and brought +him into the very forefront of British artists. He was considered the +most successful humorist of the day, and his pencil was in constant +request. In the course of years he became the illustrator of about +eighty volumes. When it is realised that the sketches in _Punch_ and the +illustrations in these eighty volumes combined amount to some thousands +in number, the mind is much impressed with the great amount of industry +and application that Leech displayed throughout life. Even a tour to the +Highlands, or to Ireland, or an outing to any portion of the country, +was at all times turned to practical account for work later on. + +This incessant brain-work produced an extreme nervous sensitiveness. In +this state he was much affected by noise and was literally driven from +his house in Brunswick Square by street music. He removed to Kensington, +where he hoped to obtain a release from this annoyance by adopting a +device of double windows. But he had no peace. He often introduced in +the pages of _Punch_ the barrel-organ nuisance. The public, however, +at that time had no idea what these sketches from real life cost the +artist. In 1864, Leech was ordered to take a holiday on the Continent. +Upon his return to his London home in the autumn of the same year, +although better in health, he was still strangely susceptible to noise. +He spoke with more than his usual earnestness about the sufferings which +the street organs gave him, and about the smallness of the sympathy +which he received from people who had no weakness in the same direction. +This extraordinary sensitiveness to noise was only a secondary phase or +symptom of the real ailment. The real malady from which he suffered was +breast-pang, or spasms of the heart, a form of angina pectoris. Although +it was necessary to warn Leech against all excitement, riding, quick +walking, or overwork, it was not supposed that he was in immediate +danger, and, if he could only find rest and quiet, great hopes were +entertained of his recovery. However, the sad end came when quite +unexpected. In the morning of the 29th of October, 1864, he spoke +hopefully of the future to his wife. In a few hours afterwards he +whispered into the same living ear--"I am going," and fell into his +father's arms in a faint. Three hours afterwards he expired. The news of +his death went over the country with a dismal shock; for in what house +was John Leech not an inmate in one form or another? + +Leech was tall, with an elegant figure, over six feet in height, +graceful and gentlemanly in manner, with a fine head and a handsome +face. In action he was nimble, vigorous, and yet gentle, capable of the +heartiest mirth, and yet generally quiet. He was singularly modest, both +as a man and an artist. The perpetual going to nature kept him humble as +well as made him rich. His consideration, too, for others was apparent +at all times, and the gentleness of his nature was remarkable. When +it is considered that all these beautiful traits of character were +accompanied by such extraordinary talent and wisdom, one is profoundly +impressed with the greatness of the man. No wonder so many mourned when +such a great, gentle, and graceful spirit passed away. 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