English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteeth century : How they illustrated and interpreted their times (1886)
Everitt, Graham, Heritage Book Shop (Los Angeles, Calif.), former owner. CLUW · London : S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey · leaf 447
. A more perfect realization of Edith Dombey itseems to us could scarcely be imagined. Leech, perhaps, might havereached the idea. He would certainly have put more breadth andsolidity into the figure of Carker; but the woman he could scarcelyhave improved upon—I doubt if he could have matched her.… … CARKER A LA CRUIKSHANK. 347 presented to us in an uncomfortable coat, hair parted and dressedafter the Cruikshankian fashion, and a pair of boots at least half ayard in length. Bleak House (1852-3) has been described as the most suc-cessful of Phizs illustrated work ; but although it contains…
Caricatures and cartoons · English wit and humor, Pictorial
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