The Headache
George Cruikshank
c. 1819
Medium
Hand-colored etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.9 × 23.4 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.); Plate: 21 × 26.7 cm (8 5/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 26.7 × 35.3 cm (10 9/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51229
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 ...