A Nice Lady or an Incomparable!!!!
George Cruikshank
published October 20, 1818
Medium
Hand-colored etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 32 × 22.5 cm (12 5/8 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet cut within platemark: 33.8 × 23 cm (13 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90161
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 ...