Return of the Paris Diligence
George Cruikshank
published September 6, 1815
Medium
1815
Dimensions
Image: 23.1 × 40.7 cm (9 1/8 × 16 1/16 in.); Plate: 23.8 × 41.4 cm (9 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.1 × 41.7 cm (9 1/2 × 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90118
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 ...