Title Page from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853
George Cruikshank
c. 1880
Medium
Letterpress in red and black on cream wove paper, folded
Dimensions
50.7 × 34.5 cm (20 × 13 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
96047
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 ...