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  • A man dressing in a bathing machine. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A young lady, love-struck after a military ball, visited by her doctor at her mother's request. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1863.
  • A man is trying to escape up a tree as the fish he has caught is writhing around on the bank of the river. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • An unsympathetic doctor trying to get rid of a poor patient by frightening her. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • Women bathing in the sea near their bathing machines. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A man dressed in a hat and heavy coat is carrying a fishing rod as he nears a turbulent river on a very windy day. Process print after John Leech.
  • A man is standing on the banks of a river with a fishing line in the water, he is hunched against the very wet and windy weather. Coloured process print after J. Leech.
  • An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • Two doctors aloof from one another in disagreement. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A young woman is walking along a plank near a beach hut as another reads a book and the children play in the sand. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
  • John Mitchel striding to his trial in the middle of a marching band: the trombonist has accidentally knocked over the triangle-player in front. Letterpress and wood engraving after J. Leech, 1848.
  • A dutiful volunteer soldier at his post in the rain even though he has a bad cold. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1846.
  • A doctor changing into hunting clothes in his carriage, on his way to a hunt meeting. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
  • A doctor telling his apprentice how to use language correctly. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1846.
  • A man is standing in the middle of a lake tangled up with a fishing rod, lines and a net, deer come from the bushes to see what he is doing. Process print after John Leech.
  • A man is standing on the banks of a river with a broken fishing line and an escaping fish; he then appears from out of the water with the fish in his arms. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • A man has caught a fish on the end of his line, but the fish is so strong that it is pulling the man across the rocks. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • A young lady, love-struck after a military ball, visited by her doctor at her mother's request. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1863.
  • A group of women gathered around a fireplace listening to a young man holding forth. Coloured etching by John Leech.
  • A phrenologist working on the head of a boy. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
  • A barber cutting a girl's hair: a woman looks on. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A young man visiting a surgeon-apothecary in his workroom, where the proprietor shows him one of his prize natural history specimens. Etching by J. Leech.
  • Children are sitting on the banks of a river watching as a man is pulled along by the fish on the end of his fishing line. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • Women visiting a beach to enjoy geological collecting, study, sewing and other worthy activities. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
  • A footman at a seaside establishment asks a man who is about to leave if he will take a barrel of sea-water with him on behalf of another resident. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1846.
  • A doctor changing into hunting clothes in his carriage while rushing to join a fox-hunt. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1859.
  • A shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1865.
  • Children encouraged by their teachers to box as a positive and healthy recreation. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1858.
  • Queen Victoria (?) being driven through the sea in a bathing machine. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A beardless young man asks his hair-dresser to shave his beard: another hair-dresser and his client look on in amusement. Coloured wood engraving after John Leech.