 
                            The Public Domain Review
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Online journal exploring works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. Also 900+ prints in our shop!
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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…
 
                        
                    
                    
                    
                