Artworks · George Cruikshank

Title Page from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

1880 · Letterpress in red and black on cream wove paper, folded

50.7 × 34.5 cm (20 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Trade Card for Samuel P. Avery--Fine Art Room

1873 · Etching

sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (15.9 x 24.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Leader of the Parisian Blood Red Republic

1871 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Plate: 42 × 27 cm (16 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.); Sheet: 45.8 × 30.5 cm (18 1/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker's Collection of Drawings

1868 · etching in black on wove paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 25.7 x 17.3 cm (10 1/8 x 6 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker's Collection of Drawings

1867 · watercolor and graphite on wove paper

overall: 24.3 x 17.8 cm (9 9/16 x 7 in.)

National Gallery of Art

"Taking the Air" in Hyde Park [verso]

1865 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on wove paper

overall: 24.3 x 32.2 cm (9 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

"Crinolina" - and the Consequences [recto]

1865 · pen and black ink with watercolor and scratching-out (around the ghosts' eyes on the right) on wove paper

Overall: 24.3 x 32.2 cm (9 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.) mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Mother Shipton (recto); Sheet of Sketches: Fleur-de-Lis and Figures (verso)

1864 · Graphite and watercolor wash (recto), and graphite with brush and gray wash (verso), on cream laid paper

32.4 × 20 cm (12 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Drinking Customs of Society or Worship of Bacchus

1864 · steel engraving

Image: 55.9 x 99.1 cm (22 x 39 in.); Platemark: 68.6 x 108.3 cm (27 x 42 5/8 in.); Sheet: 73.7 x 112.6 cm (29 x 44 5/16 in.); Matted: 76.2 x 113.7 cm (30 x 44 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Worship of Bacchus

1860 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 2360 x 4060 mm

Tate

"Taking Care of Number One" or A Gentleman Endeavoring to Keep "Number One" Out of "St Pauls Church Yard" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top)

1853 · Two steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 19.9 × 16.2 cm (7 7/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 25.4 cm (13 5/8 × 10 in.)

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Scarcity of Domestic Services, or Every Family Their Own Cooks!!! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1853 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.3 × 33.8 cm (8 7/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.3 × 50.4 cm (13 9/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

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"The Rights of Women" or the Effects of Female Enfranchisement from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

1853 · Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 16.1 × 41.4 cm (6 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 25.3 × 50.4 cm (10 × 19 7/8 in.)

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The Peace Society, or a New "Field of Action" for the Military - in "The Good Time Coming" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top)

1852 · Two steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 20 × 16.3 cm (7 7/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.4 × 25.2 cm (13 9/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

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The "Bloomers" in Hyde Park, or an Extraordinary Exhibition for 1852 from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

1852 · Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 16.1 × 41.2 cm (6 3/8 × 16 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 25.3 × 50.4 cm (10 × 19 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Advice "To Those About to Marry" - Buy Cheap Furniture from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1852 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.1 × 34.2 cm (8 5/16 × 13 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 34.1 × 50.6 cm (13 7/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Letter: Stop Thief

1851 · Signed letter in pen and brown ink, with several sketches in pen and brown ink, and one entire sheet of sketches in graphite and watercolor, signed in pen and black ink, on two sheets of cream wove paper

228 × 144 (each sheet)

Art Institute of Chicago

Modern Ballooning, or the Newest Phase of Folly from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top)

1851 · Two steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 20.6 × 16.3 cm (8 1/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.2 × 25.1 cm (13 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.)

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Alarming Sacrifice from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1851 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 20.4 × 33.1 cm (8 1/16 × 13 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.4 × 50.6 cm (13 9/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, or Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in Consequence of Exporting All Our Own to Australia!!!!! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

1851 · Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 16.2 × 41.2 cm (6 7/16 × 16 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 25.1 × 50.2 cm (9 15/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

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Odds & Ends, in, out & about, the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851 · Etching

Plate: 8 11/16 × 11 1/16 in. (22 × 28.1 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 11/16 in. (31.8 × 50 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Looking for Lodgings

1851 · Etching

Plate: 5 9/16 × 8 9/16 in. (14.2 × 21.8 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 11/16 in. (31.8 × 50 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Some of the Drolleries of the Great Exhibition

1851 · Etching

Plate: 8 9/16 × 11 9/16 in. (21.7 × 29.3 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 11/16 in. (31.8 × 50 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

What It Must Come To, At Last, if the Ladies Go On Blowing Themselves Out as They Do! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1850 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 20.9 × 33.4 cm (8 1/4 × 13 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.4 × 50.6 cm (13 9/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Lord Mayors Show and the Lord Mayors Feast in Ireland from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (left)

1850 · Two steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 16.3 × 20.1 cm (6 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 25.1 × 34.2 cm (9 15/16 × 13 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

As It Ought to Be or The Ladies Trying a Contemptible Scoundrel for a "Breach of Promise" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

1850 · Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 16.1 × 41.2 cm (6 3/8 × 16 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 25.2 × 50.7 cm (9 15/16 × 20 in.)

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An Interrupted English Dinner Party at Paris from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1849 · Five steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 29.1 × 27.3 cm (11 1/2 × 10 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 42.2 × 34.3 cm (16 5/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

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A Good Pennyworth from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1848 · Six steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 28.2 × 27.5 cm (11 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 34 × 42.3 cm (13 7/16 × 16 11/16 in.)

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The Comic Almanack

1848 · Pen and ink and graphite on folder paper

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A Parade

1848 · Pen and brown ink over graphite

Overall: 3 1/8 x 4 1/16 in. (7.9 x 10.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A group of figures

1848 · Pen and brown ink over graphite

Overall: 3 1/16 x 3 7/8 in. (7.8 x 9.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Sick Goose and the Council of Health from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1847 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 20.8 × 33.5 cm (8 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 34.4 × 50.5 cm (13 9/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Where Can the Police Be? from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1847 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.1 × 34.2 cm (8 5/16 × 13 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 34.3 × 50.4 cm (13 9/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

"My Wife is a Woman of Mind" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1847 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.4 × 33.8 cm (8 7/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.3 × 50.5 cm (13 9/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Gemini - Odd Fellows from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1846 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.5 × 33.8 cm (8 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 50.8 cm (13 5/8 × 20 in.)

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Libra - Striking the Balance from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1846 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.4 × 33.7 cm (8 7/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 50.7 cm (13 5/8 × 20 in.)

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Aquarius - Jolly Young Watermen from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1846 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.4 × 33.8 cm (8 7/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.3 × 50.9 cm (13 9/16 × 20 1/16 in.)

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The Spring Quarter from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1845 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.4 × 33.7 cm (8 7/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.4 × 50.8 cm (13 9/16 × 20 in.)

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Lady Day - Old & New Style from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1845 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.2 × 33.2 cm (8 3/8 × 13 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.3 × 50.7 cm (13 9/16 × 20 in.)

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Twelfth Night from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1845 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.2 × 33 cm (8 3/8 × 13 in.); Secondary support: 34.2 × 50.8 cm (13 1/2 × 20 in.)

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Two Self-Portraits in Profile

1844 · Graphite, on ivory wove paper, tipped on cream wove card

11.5 × 18.1 cm (4 9/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

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Dog Days - Legislation Going to the Dogs from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1844 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.3 × 33.3 cm (8 7/16 × 13 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.4 × 50.8 cm (13 9/16 × 20 in.)

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Quarter Day from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1844 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.3 × 33.2 cm (8 7/16 × 13 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.2 × 50.6 cm (13 1/2 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Change for a Sovereign - an Anticipated Pantomime from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1844 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21 × 32.7 cm (8 5/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.2 × 50.4 cm (13 1/2 × 19 7/8 in.)

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The Assembly of the Gifted: Mr.Bullock Addresses His Friends

1843 · Graphite, with watercolor, on ivory wove paper

10.3 × 10.8 cm (4 1/16 × 4 5/16 in.)

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Oh, Law! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1843 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 33.3 × 20.6 cm (13 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 50.5 × 34.5 cm (19 15/16 × 13 5/8 in.)

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Show of Hands For a Liberal Candidate from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1843 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 33.4 × 21.4 cm (13 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 50.7 × 34.6 cm (20 × 13 5/8 in.)

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New Harmony - All Owin' No Payin' from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1843 · Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Primary support: 21.2 × 33.7 cm (8 3/8 × 13 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 50.8 cm (13 5/8 × 20 in.)

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