A Curious Junto of Slandering Elves
George Cruikshank
January 27, 1817
Medium
Hand-colored etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 34.5 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 24.8 × 35.2 cm (9 13/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 35.6 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90198
About the Artist
George Cruikshank · 1792–1878
George Cruikshank (1792–1878) was born in London on 27 September 1792, the son of Scottish caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank and Mary MacNaughton. His older brother, Isaac Robert Cruikshank, was also a caricaturist and illustrator, while his sister Eliza worked as a designer. From a young age, Cruikshank assisted his father in the studio, contributing titles, backgrounds, and lettering to cartoons by ...