Vintage Print -'At Sir 'Arry's' - Leech Surtees (Jorrocks) 'Soapey Sponge'

Vintage Print -'At Sir 'Arry's' - Leech Surtees (Jorrocks) 'Soapey Sponge' (image 1/2)
Vintage Print -'At Sir 'Arry's' - Leech Surtees (Jorrocks) 'Soapey Sponge' (image 2/2)
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Welcome to Polly's China Shop . All my items are very carefully wrapped, as you will see mentioned many times in my feedback record. I describe as well as possible but if you should be disappointed with your purchase for any reason, I offer a full and instant refund. Buy with confidence and browse the other lovely items on offer - down at Polly's. One of a set of five wonderful old prints,this one called 'Mr Sponge arrives at Sir 'Arry's', by John Leech, illustrating the comic adventures of Soapey Sponge, a character created by Victorian writer RW Surtees, famous for his character, Jorrocks. Info from Wikipedia:"Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public.. Another hero, Soapey Sponge, appears in Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, possibly Surtees best work. All Surtees' novels were composed at Hamsterley Hall, where he wrote standing up at a desk, like Victor Hugo.As a creator of comic personalities, Surtees is still very readable today. Thackeray envied him his powers of observation, while William Morris considered him 'a master of life' and ranked him with Dickens. Most of Surtees's later novels, were illustrated by John Leech. They included Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853); Ask Mamma (1858); Plain or Ringlets? (1860)and Mr Facey Romford's Hounds (1865). read more
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