The Lord Mayors Show and the Lord Mayors Feast in Ireland from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (left)
1850, printed c. 1880
Medium
Two steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
Dimensions
Primary support: 16.3 × 20.1 cm (6 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 25.1 × 34.2 cm (9 15/16 × 13 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
222556
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 ...