Dos-a-dos - Accidents in Quadrille Dancing
George Cruikshank
published March 4, 1817
Medium
Hand-colored etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.5 × 25 cm (8 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Plate: 21 × 25.5 cm (8 5/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 21.5 × 26 cm (8 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90147
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 ...