The Spafields Orator Hunt-ing for Popularity to Do-good!!!
George Cruikshank
published March, 1817
Medium
Hand-colored etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 23 × 34.3 cm (9 1/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 35 cm (9 3/4 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 26.1 × 43.2 cm (10 5/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90057
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 ...