Liberty Suspended! With the Bulwark of the Constitution!
George Cruikshank
published March 1817
Medium
Hand-colored etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.2 × 34.5 cm (9 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 25 × 34.8 cm (9 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 35.5 cm (10 1/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
89978
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 ...