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Dickens and His Illustrators

Note 37 — JOHN LEECH

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Facsimiles of these have already appeared in my Memoir of John Leech. A duplicate sketch (more completely carried out) of "The Parting Breakfast" will be found in the Print Room of the British Museum, but there is, I believe, some doubt as to its authenticity. The late Mr. G. A. Sala pointed out that the engraving of this subject contains an astonishingly good likeness of that admired comedian, Robert Keeley, as the old servant Britain.

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