The illustration above is the coarse, comic character Sir Harry of Nonsuch House from the satire
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, published in 1853.
Mr. Sponge was the creation of
Robert Smith Surtees, a sportswriter and author who had tried his hand at law before inheriting
Hamsterley Hall in Durham and retiring into the life of a "gentleman of leisure."
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