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In 1850, Punch magazine's Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and John Leech published The Comic History of Rome. Caroline Wazer explores how it's in Leech's anachronistic illustrations where the true subversion lies, offering a critique of Victorian society itself: publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-eter…