Edmund Kean as Richard III
Medium
Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions
Image: 6 5/16 × 3 13/16 in. (16 × 9.7 cm) Sheet: 8 1/16 × 4 7/8 in. (20.5 × 12.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.888-180
Tags
About the Artist
George Cruikshank|Edmund Kean|William Shakespeare · 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 ...