The "Bloomers" in Hyde Park, or an Extraordinary Exhibition for 1852 from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853
1852, printed c. 1880
Medium
Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
Dimensions
Primary support: 16.1 × 41.2 cm (6 3/8 × 16 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 25.3 × 50.4 cm (10 × 19 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222561
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 ...