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George Cruikshank

(1792-1878), Caricaturist and illustrator

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.

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A Going! A Going! the last time, A Going! - Down - !!!, by George Cruikshank, published by  George Humphrey - NPG D17916a

A Going! A Going! the last time, A Going! - Down - !!!

by George Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey
etching, published 13 April 1821
NPG D17916a

Sir William Curtis, 1st Bt, by George Cruikshank, published by  Edward Knight - NPG D2242

Sir William Curtis, 1st Bt

by George Cruikshank, published by Edward Knight
hand-coloured etching, published 12 August 1822
NPG D2242

'A pinch of cephalic', by George Cruikshank, published by  George Humphrey, after  James Gillray - NPG D12950

'A pinch of cephalic'

by George Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey, after James Gillray
hand-coloured etching, published 25 January 1822
NPG D12950

John Nash, by George Cruikshank - NPG D3010

John Nash

by George Cruikshank
etching, published 1824
NPG D3010

Buy a Broom ?!! (Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux), by George Cruikshank, published by  George Humphrey - NPG D16762

Buy a Broom ?!! (Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux)

by George Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 1825
NPG D16762

(Isaac) Robert Cruikshank, by Frederick William Pailthorpe, after  George Cruikshank - NPG D9318

(Isaac) Robert Cruikshank

by Frederick William Pailthorpe, after George Cruikshank
hand-coloured stipple engraving, late 19th century (1828)
NPG D9318

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Edmund Kean as Richard III

by George Cruikshank, after (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank
hand-coloured etching, circa 1814
NPG D21262

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