Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, or Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in Consequence of Exporting All Our Own to Australia!!!!! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853
1851, printed c. 1880
Medium
Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
Dimensions
Primary support: 16.2 × 41.2 cm (6 7/16 × 16 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 25.1 × 50.2 cm (9 15/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222558
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 ...