Category: Biographies
In 1835 the late Mr. Tilt, publisher, of Fleet Street, started the Comic Almanac, and engaged George Cruikshank to illustrate it. It was a happy idea, exactly suited to the more popular side of the mood and genius of the artist; and Cruikshank entered upon his task with zest F...
Between 1837 and 1847, in addition to his work with Dickens and Ainsworth, and in his _Omnibus_ and “Comic Almanac,” Cruikshank threw off some of his most popular minor drawings...
5. CHAPTER III. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK AS A TEETOTALER.George Cruikshank was an enthusiast in all things to which he gave his mind. He did nothing in a halfhearted way. Whether preparing to address a great Exeter Hall audience on th...
6. CHAPTER IV. THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS.Mr. Wedmore, in his critical sketch of Cruikshank, has described in a few pregnant sentences, how in his later days the public fell away from the great humourist and subtle obse...
7. CHAPTER V. “FRAUDS ON THE FAIRIES” AND “WHOLE HOGS.The works which George Cruikshank illustrated, and the enterprises on which he entered during the thirty-years of his teetotal career, would be enough to fill the life of an ord...
9. CHAPTER VII. CRUIKSHANK’S LAST TWENTY YEARS.The most notable of George Cruikshank’s book-work, after the failure of bis magazine, was his “Life of Sir John Falstaff,” * illustrating a biography of the knight, written in R...
1. CHAPTER XI. THE COMIC ALMANAC.In 1835 the late Mr. Tilt, publisher, of Fleet Street, started the Comic Almanac, and engaged George Cruikshank to illustrate it. It was a happy idea, exactly suited to the more...
8. CHAPTER VI. A SLICE OF BREAD AND BUTTER.George Cruikshank’s habit of putting himself forward as the originator of any work with which he was connected was never more amusingly displayed than when, in March 1870, he ma...
3. CHAPTER I. AT GILLRAY’s GRAVE.No great stretch of the imagination is needed to conjure up an interesting picture in the corner of the graveyard of St. James’s, Piccadilly, in that momentous June when the for...
4. CHAPTER II. THE BOTTLE.WE have seen that many years before the Temperance question fastened itself upon Cruikshank’s mind, never to be blotted out again for a single day, he had marked and satirized t...
10. CHAPTER VIII. THE END.He died at his house in the Hampstead Road, on the 1st of February. He was buried temporarily--the Crypt of St. Paul’s being under repair--at Kensal Green. The only member of th...