Untitled (Cruikshank letter with sketches of horse head)
1812/78
Medium
Graphite with pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, red stamps and watercolor on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Letter: 24.7 × 19.2 cm (9 3/4 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 40.7 × 30.5 cm (16 1/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
letter
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
183046
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 ...