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  • Three men in a boat are out fishing on a lake, one has caught an eel on the end of his line. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1858.
  • Two men are standing on the banks of a river waiting for a catch. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • A woman refusing to get into a cab believing she will catch smallpox, the driver humorously reassures her. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1863.
  • A doctor tells an obese lady all the possible horrendous diseases she might have. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • Doctors reduced to drinking in a seedy public house: representing the effect of the various Reform bills introduced by Sir James Graham. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • An omnibus full of distraught women due to leeches having escaped from their broken jar. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.
  • A phrenologist working on the head of a boy. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
  • A new doctor being vetted by a local parish committee. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • An old farm labourer is valued at 2 guineas but a prize pig is valued at 3 guineas. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1846.
  • Mr. Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A man sits in a boat with three fishing rods as two others row him across the lake, a fish jumps in the background behind them. Process print after John Leech.
  • An overweight man being driven through the sea in a carriage drawn by a small thin man on a horse. Wood engraving by J. 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. Etching after John Leech, 1845.
  • A hotel managed by noblemen. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • Three children automatically putting out their tongues for inspection upon meeting the family doctor in Kensington Gardens. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1861.
  • A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech.
  • A man is punting on a river but his pole seems to be stuck; a woman in the boat is reading and a small boy trails his hands in the water. Coloured lithograph after John Leech.
  • Mr Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • British politicians as huntsmen arriving at a river representing the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act 1887. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
  • John Solomon Rarey with the stallion 'Cruiser', observed by onlookers. Wood engraving by J. Swain after J. Leech, 1858.
  • John Solomon Rarey with the stallion 'Cruiser', observed by onlookers. Wood engraving by J. Swain after J. Leech, 1858.
  • John Solomon Rarey with the stallion 'Cruiser', observed by onlookers. Wood engraving by J. Swain after J. Leech, 1858.
  • The Duke of Wellington observing the French premier Adolphe Thiers, who is represented as the dwarf General Tom Thumb (?) Lithograph by J. Leech, 1844 (?).
  • Joseph Muff an unscrupulous physician and pharmacist giving child a mixture of medicine for her mother. Wood engraving by E. Landell after J. Leech, 1842 (?).
  • John Leech. Photograph.
  • Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey: Founder's Day dinner, coat of arms, important school plaques and people. Wood engraving by W. Collins, 1883.