La Belle Assemblée
George Cruikshank
published August 31, 1817
Medium
Handcolored etching on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18 × 54.5 cm (7 1/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Sheet, cut within plate: 20.2 × 55.3 cm (8 × 21 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
155937
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 ...