"This volume, called by the appropriate name of 'The sketcher,' is one that ought to be found in the studio of every English landscape-painter....
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie
Had there been "any possible doubt whatever," it would have been instantly dispelled; for after "smiling in demoniacal derision," the disturber of the sketcher said, "deliberately and tranquilly, as he levelled a pistol at my head: "'Thy wealth or thy existence!
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
With greater force and subtlety, if with less refinement and grace, than Leech-though not, like him, the genial sketcher of the genial side of things-he has recorded, in the five or six thousand designs that make up the sum of his contribution, the character of "the classes" of our day, and that with such intensity of truth that we derive our delight in his work even more from the faithfulness of its representation than from the fun of the joke and the comic rendering of the subject.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann