Heads of the people; or, Portraits of the English
By: Drawn by Kenny Meadows.
Contributors: Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.
Publisher: Willoughby & Co.; W. Lane & Smithfield
Published: 1840
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Notes: Vol. 1 has added t.-p., illustrated.
A popular work, to which Thackeray and Jerrold contributed some of their earliest sketches. These literary sketches were written to the pictures and not, as some have imagined, the pictures drawn in illustration of the letterpress. cf. Academy, 1874, II, 360.