State Physicians Bleeding John Bull to Death!!
George Cruikshank
published 1816
Medium
Hand-colored etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.7 × 37 cm (10 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Plate: 26.2 × 37.5 cm (10 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.); Sheet: 26.8 × 38 cm (10 9/16 × 15 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90090
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 ...