"Taking Care of Number One" or A Gentleman Endeavoring to Keep "Number One" Out of "St Pauls Church Yard" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top)
1853, printed c. 1880
Medium
Two steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
Dimensions
Primary support: 19.9 × 16.2 cm (7 7/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 25.4 cm (13 5/8 × 10 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222566
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 ...