George Cruikshank
(1792-1878), Caricaturist and illustratorSitter 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.
A Going! A Going! the last time, A Going! - Down - !!!
by George Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey
etching, published 13 April 1821
NPG D17916a
by George Cruikshank, published by Edward Knight
hand-coloured etching, published 12 August 1822
NPG D2242
by George Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey, after James Gillray
hand-coloured etching, published 25 January 1822
NPG D12950
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
hand-coloured etching, published 1825
NPG D16762
'The opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of all Nations'
by George Cruikshank, published by David Bogue
etching, 1851
NPG D33638
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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by Frederick William Pailthorpe, after George Cruikshank
hand-coloured stipple engraving, late 19th century (1828)
NPG D9318
by George Cruikshank, after (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank
hand-coloured etching, circa 1814
NPG D21262
Related People
- Eliza Cruikshank (née Widdison) (wife)
- Eliza Cruikshank (sister)
- Isaac Cruikshank (father)
- (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank (brother)
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