Category: Biographies
“As a boy,” Thackeray said of his friend George Cruikshank, “he began to fight for bread,* has been hungry (twice a-day, we trust) ever since, and has been obliged to sell his wit for his bread week by week. And his wit, sterling gold as it is, will find no such purchasers as...
“And yet it is no trifle to be a good caricaturist,” exclaimed Professor Wilson, writing an article on Cruikshank, in Blackwood, in July 1823. “Forbid the thought, ye shades of...
4. CHAPTER IV. CRUIKSHANK AS A POLITICAL CARICATURIST.It is recorded that when it was proposed to cast a statue of Sir Robert Peel, the portrait selected as most striking in its resemblance, most faithful to his natural expression,...
8. CHAPTER VIII. SKETCHES BY BOZ, OLIVER TWIST, AND THE LIFE OF GRIMALDI.That the author of “Three Courses and a Dessert” made a fair mark with his book, apart and distinct from Cruikshank, is proved in a curious way. In November 1838, Messrs. Chapma...
9. CHAPTER IX. ILLUSTRATIONS TO HARRISON AINSWORTH’S ROMANCES.Early in 1839, on the conclusion of “Oliver Twist,” Charles Dickens handed over the editorship of _Bentley’s Miscellany_ to Harrison Ainsworth; and with this transfer, George Cr...
2. CHAPTER II. FROM CRANACH TO CRUIKSHANK.The history of caricature in England travels very little beyond George Cruikshank’s lifetime. The very word _caricatura_, used by Sir Thomas Browne in his Christian morals, and...
6. CHAPTER VI. HAND-TO-MOUTH WORK.Exactly. What a picture for the inimitable George! Humphreys in St. James’s Street, Fores in Piccadilly, Fairburn of Broadway, Ludgate Hill, Hodgson and Co. of Newgate Street, W...
3. CHAPTER III. CRUIKSHANK’S EARLY DAYS.Directly Isaac Cruikshank’s boys could hold a tool they appear to have been apprenticed to the father’s art-trade. Robert, the elder, was a spirited worker--perhaps on a level w...
7. CHAPTER VII. THREE COURSES AND A DESSERTEven Mr. Clarke’s “Dessert,” albeit various, is remembered chiefly by the artist’s immortal plate of the deaf postilion. The Ralph and Harry Hickorys of our day are but poor wre...
10. CHAPTER X. THE OMNIBUS.It was in 1841 that George Cruikshank, when at variance with Mr. Bentley, started a periodical on his own account His friend Laman Blanchard, who was then one of the most popula...
1. CHAPTER I. TWO EPOCHS.“As a boy,” Thackeray said of his friend George Cruikshank, “he began to fight for bread,* has been hungry (twice a-day, we trust) ever since, and has been obliged to sell his w...