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Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour

LeechWW-1853-523776

1853·Book with thirteen steel engravings, with hand-coloring, in black and eighty-four wood engravings in black on ivory wove paper·22.3 × 15.2 × 3.4 cm (8 13/16 × 6 × 1 3/8 in.)

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.

Catalogue

Year: 1853
Medium: Book with thirteen steel engravings, with hand-coloring, in black and eighty-four wood engravings in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 22.3 × 15.2 × 3.4 cm (8 13/16 × 6 × 1 3/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Leech

Artist

Leech

Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular segmented bodies that can lengthen and contract. Both groups are hermaphrodites and have a clitellum, but leeches typically differ from the oligochaetes in having suckers at both ends and ring markings that do not correspond with their internal segmentation. The body is muscular and relatively solid; the coelom, the spacious body cavity found in other annelids, is reduced to small channels.

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