January from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)
1835, printed c. 1880
Medium
Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
Dimensions
Primary support: 20.4 × 33.4 cm (8 1/16 × 13 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.3 × 50.7 cm (13 9/16 × 20 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222468
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 ...