A Parade
George Cruikshank
ca. 1850
Medium
Pen and brown ink over graphite
Dimensions
Overall: 3 1/8 x 4 1/16 in. (7.9 x 10.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Meyer Schapiro, 1992
Accession Number
1992.1054.12
Tags
Musical InstrumentsCrowd
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 ...