# John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character

Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2646

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=John+Leech%27s+Pictures+of+Life+and+Character+Thackeray&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as children the pictures at which we were permitted to look. There was Boydell's Shakspeare, black and ghastly gallery of murky Opies, glum Northcotes, straddling Fuselis! there were Lear, Oberon, Hamlet, with starting muscles, rolling eyeballs, and long pointing quivering fingers; there was little Prince Arthur (Northcote) crying, in white satin, and bidding good Hubert not put out his eyes; there was Hubert crying; there was little Rutland being run through the poor little body by bloody Clifford; there was Cardinal Beaufort (Reynolds) gnashing his teet...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-leech-s-pictures-of-life-and-character-2646/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/john-leech-s-pictures-of-life-and-character-2646/chapters/2/index.md)