Category: Biographies

George Cruikshank

**** The dates in the footlines and in this list are those of the first appearance of the works to which they refer. In certain cases the reproductions have been made from good impressions which are not the earliest of the plates in question.

Chapters

3. Part 3

At one illustration let us cry halt. It represents a foaming pot of beer assaulting a woman who said to the magistrate, "Your honour, it was the beer." In itself it is a masterp...

5. Part 5

Exit Devil: enter Satan. About 1827 Cruikshank drew him on wood, in the act of calling on his followers as related by Milton in "Paradise Lost," Book I., Il. 314-332. Cruikshank...

2. Part 2

Gillray is said to have sometimes disguised his style in order to evade his agreement with Humphrey that he would work for no other publisher; and there is more than one of Crui...

4. Part 4

Of the acrimonious discussion that Cruikshank started by claiming to have originated Ainsworth's romance, I shall say little. That Cruikshank was the senior partner there is no...

8. Part 8

We are now brought to the conclusion of our most important chapter. Will Cruikshank's humour live? or, rather, may it live? for things live centuries without permission, and the...

9. Part 9

"Cigar (The)" (2 vols. London: T. Richardson, 98 High Holborn; Sherwood, Jones & Co., Paternoster Row; W. Hunter, Edinburgh, 1825. The vols. contain 25 different cuts; the same...

10. Part 10

Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland, and the Waverley Novels from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Professor, R.A., Balmer, Bentley, Chisholm, Hart, A.R.A., Harding, McCl...

1. Part 1

**** The dates in the footlines and in this list are those of the first appearance of the works to which they refer. In certain cases the reproductions have been made from good...

6. Part 6

In 1866, however, Cruikshank executed two plates for Ruskin; one of them illustrated "The Blue Light" from Grimm, the other showed the children of Hamelin following the Pied Pip...

7. Part 7

Cruikshank's ten etchings for "Gil Blas" (1833) are the works of an intelligent machine, which may be called humorous because it takes down the fact that Dame Jacintha held the...

11. Part 11

"Scraps and Sketches," by George Cruikshank (4 parts [1828-1832] and one plate [1834] published by the Artist at 22 Myddelton [also spelt Myddleton] Terrace, Pentonville. In 183...