Sketchbook
Medium
Sketchbook with 16 leaves and 34 pages (including endpapers) of drawings in graphite, many with watercolor, pen and ink or gouache, on cream wove paper, with additional drawings on wove and laid papers tipped in, bound with worn calf-covered boards and in a red levant morocco slip case lined in red watered silk
Dimensions
Sheets: 12.5 × 20.6 cm (4 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sketchbook: 13.3 × 21 × 1 cm (5 1/4 × 8 5/16 × 7/16 in.); Slipcase: 23.4 × 15.6 × 2.6 cm (9 1/4 × 6 3/16 × 1 1/16 in.)
Classification
sketchbook
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66661
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 ...