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Cruikshank, George - Biography & Artworks | Artheon Museum

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Cruikshank, George

1792–1878

Nationality: United Kingdom

Born: 1792, London

Died: 1878, London

Gender: male

Occupations

illustrator

painter

artist

caricaturist

photographer

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Biography

Artist famous for his political cartoons and prolific book illustrations. In his later career he made moral narratives in woodcut, especially in regards to the temperance movement. Cruikshank was also an actor. Comment on works: caricaturist

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Artworks

38 artworks

Humming-birds–or–a Dandy Trio

July 15, 1819

Fives' Court

1824

The Great Fight

1824

The Dispersion of the Works of all Nations from the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Odds & Ends, in, out & about, the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Some of the Drolleries of the Great Exhibition

1851

The First Shilling Day–Coming Out

1851

The First Shilling Day–Going In

1851

The Opera Boxes During the Time of the Great Exhibition?

1851

Looking for Lodgings

1851

Manchester, in 1851

1851

London, in 1851

1851

All the World is Going to See the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

The Opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of All Nations, by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the 1st of May, 1851: The View is Taken from the South West Gallery, at the time when the Archbishop is offering up a Prayer for the Divine blessing upon the objects in the Exhibition

1851

The Battle Between Cribb and Molineaux, September 28, 1811

October 3, 1811

Mr. Kean in the Character of Richard the Third

ca. 1814