George Cruikshank was one of the leading British illustrators and caricaturists in the 1800s. After rising to fame as a political satirist, he began illustrating for authors, such as Charles Dickens ...

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 ...

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.

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.

George Cruikshank (1792-1878) is perhaps best known for his illustrations of Charles Dickens’ novels, Sketches by Boz (1836) and Oliver Twist (1838) in particular. During the 1840s, Cruikshank’s ...

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 ...

Framed prints of a famous engraving entitled “Itinerant Dealers in Dunstable Ware” are sometimes attributed to the noted artist George Cruikshank. But the print, bearing a Cruikshank signature, was ...