George Cruikshank
(1792-1878), Caricaturist and illustratorEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 34 portraits
Artist associated with 29 portraits
Artist and illustrator; followed his father, Isaac Cruikshank, as a caricaturist and worked with William Hone in producing radical satires against the Prince Regent; became a prolific illustrator, most famously of Dickens. In later life he took up oil painting, renounced his earlier ways and became a zealous advocate of temperance.
by Ernest Edwards, published by Lovell Reeve & Co
albumen print, published 1863
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by Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
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'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age'
by Frederick Holland Mares, after Disdéri, and Camille Silvy, and Duroni & Murer, and Émile Desmaisons, and John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and Herbert Watkins, and William Edward Kilburn, and Horatio Nelson King, and John & Charles Watkins, and James Mudd, and Unknown photographers, published by Ashford Brothers & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Ernest Edwards
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1863
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by Henry Joseph Whitlock
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1866
NPG Ax17263
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1869?
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by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870
NPG Ax17862
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870
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by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870
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by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870
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George Cruikshank ('A journeyman printer's description of the art of etching on copper')
by George Cruikshank
etching, 4 May 1859
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George Cruikshank ('The Venerable George')
published by Frederick Arnold, after Unknown artist
lithograph, published in the Hornet 6 December 1871
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by Daniel John Pound, after John & Charles Watkins
line and stipple engraving, circa 1842-1877
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Related People
- Eliza Cruikshank (née Widdison) (wife)
- Eliza Cruikshank (sister)
- Isaac Cruikshank (father)
- (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank (brother)
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