Voila-t-on Mort!!!
published July 17, 1819
Medium
Hand-colored etching and letterpress on paper
Dimensions
Image: 20 × 24.6 cm (7 7/8 × 9 11/16 in.); Plate: 20.7 × 25.4 cm (8 3/16 × 10 in.); Sheet: 38.5 × 25.7 cm (15 3/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90188
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 ...