George Cruikshank inveighed ardently, earnestly, and at last successfully, with pencil and with etching-point, against the atrocious bloodthirstiness of the penal laws, — the laws that strung up from ...
Cruikshank has just been called a born caricaturist of the people; equally was he a born etcher. We are told that George's first playthings were an etcher's needle and a dabber belonging to his father ...
The English artist George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was primarily a caricaturist and illustrator. He was the preeminent Victorian practitioner of graphic satire in the tradition of William Hogarth.
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This black and white print is the ...
One of the last copper plate etchings George Cruikshank completed was this taxonomy of British society in the form of a beehive. Originally drawn in 1840, Cruikshank did not etch the design until ...
Victorian England produced fuzzy, sentimental painting, and a lot of sharp and funny drawing. The drawing has lasted better. Three of her ace draftsmen, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle and Sir John ...
In 1847, inspired by William Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, George Cruikshank published a graphic narrative in eight plates showing one man’s descent into sin, poverty, and insanity, due to alcoholism.
Demon Drink: George Cruikshank's the worship of Bacchus in focus The caricaturist George Cruikshank, earliest illustrator of Charles Dickens's novels, floats through the 19th century like an ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This black and white etching is the ...
New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only or Cooking-only subscribers.
Inspired by Cruikshank's love and hate of the bottle, cartoonist laureate Martin Rowson has created an interactive map of London's watering holes. Click on the map to find out where artists have ...
Wine comes in at the mouth / And love comes in at the eye,” wrote poet William Butler Yeats. “That’s all we shall know for truth / Before we grow old and die.” ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results