A Good Pennyworth from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)
1848, printed c. 1880
Medium
Six steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
Dimensions
Primary support: 28.2 × 27.5 cm (11 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 34 × 42.3 cm (13 7/16 × 16 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222552
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 ...