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Imperial Botany–or a Peep at Josephine's Collection of Engilsh Exoticks, vide the Champion Jany 30, 1814
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Imperial Botany–or a Peep at Josephine's Collection of Engilsh Exoticks, vide the Champion Jany 30, 1814

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 7/16 × 21 3/8 in. (21.5 × 54.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About George Cruikshank

1792–1878United Kingdom

Artist famous for his political cartoons and prolific book illustrations. In his later career he made moral narratives in woodcut, especially in regards to the temperance movement. Cruikshank was also an actor. Comment on works: caricaturist