The Allied Bakers or the Corsican Toad in the Hole
April 1, 1814
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
plate: 10 x 14 1/8 in. (25.4 x 35.8 cm) sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (27.7 x 40.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.269
Tags
About the Artist
George Cruikshank|Hannah Humphrey|George Humphrey · 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 ...