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 Daniel Maclise
pencil, 1833
NPG 5170
by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, 1836
NPG 1385
by William Behnes
plaster cast of bust, circa 1855
NPG 1300
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, late 1850s
NPG P301(146)
after a photograph by Elliott & Fry
watercolour, late 19th century, based on a work of 1872
NPG 3150
Sketches on seven sheets of MS fragments
by George Cruikshank
pen and ink and pencil
NPG 4259
by Maull & Polyblank
albumen print, circa 1857
NPG x134784
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, late 1850s
NPG x199004
by Maull & Polyblank
albumen print, circa 1857
NPG Ax27703
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax28965
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax28570
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen print, 1860s
NPG Ax21894
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax39831
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x137947
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x7060
by George & Rebecca Lavis
albumen cabinet card, 1860s
NPG x7062
Eliza Cruikshank (née Widdison); George Cruikshank
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, 1860s
NPG x7063
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax14924
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax28413
by Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG x7061
by Ernest Edwards, published by Lovell Reeve & Co
albumen print, published 1863
NPG Ax13843
by Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG Ax7569
'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
NPG x139661
by Ernest Edwards
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1863
NPG x45101
by Henry Joseph Whitlock
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1866
NPG Ax17263
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1869?
NPG x7057
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870
NPG Ax17862
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870
NPG Ax18327
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870
NPG x7058
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870
NPG x7059
George Cruikshank ('A journeyman printer's description of the art of etching on copper')
by George Cruikshank
etching, 4 May 1859
NPG D49498
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George Cruikshank ('The Venerable George')
published by Frederick Arnold, after Unknown artist
lithograph, published in the Hornet 6 December 1871
NPG D48265
by Daniel John Pound, after John & Charles Watkins
line and stipple engraving, circa 1842-1877
NPG D20380
Related People
- Eliza Cruikshank (née Widdison) (wife)
- Eliza Cruikshank (sister)
- Isaac Cruikshank (father)
- (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank (brother)
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