June - Striking a Balance from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853
1840, printed c. 1880
Medium
Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
Dimensions
Primary support: 9.5 × 15.3 cm (3 3/4 × 6 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 22.3 × 28.6 cm (8 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222522
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 ...