Artworks · George Cruikshank

A Dandy & a Dandyzette

1818 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 22.5 × 33.5 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet cut within platemark: 24 × 34 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)

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La Belle Assemblée

1817 · Handcolored etching on wove paper

Image: 18 × 54.5 cm (7 1/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Sheet, cut within plate: 20.2 × 55.3 cm (8 × 21 13/16 in.)

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A Curious Junto of Slandering Elves

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24 × 34.5 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 24.8 × 35.2 cm (9 13/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 35.6 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

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The Return of Paris

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 27 × 37.4 cm (10 11/16 × 14 3/4 in.); Plate: 27.7 × 38.1 cm (10 15/16 × 15 in.); Sheet: 28.2 × 38.5 cm (11 1/8 × 15 3/16 in.)

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May I Die if There is'nt Sir George!!

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 29.5 × 22.9 cm (11 5/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet cut to platemark: 34 × 23.5 cm (13 7/16 × 9 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dos-a-dos - Accidents in Quadrille Dancing

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 20.5 × 25 cm (8 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Plate: 21 × 25.5 cm (8 5/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 21.5 × 26 cm (8 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Les Graces - Inconveniences in Quadrille Dancing

1817 · Hand-colored etching and aquatint on paper

Image: 20.5 × 25.5 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.); Plate: 21.3 × 26.5 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 22.2 × 26.8 cm (8 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Specimens of Waltzing

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.2 × 34.2 cm (9 9/16 × 13 1/2 in.); Plate: 25 × 35 cm (9 7/8 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 35.5 cm (10 1/16 × 14 in.)

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Moulinet-Elegances of Quadrille Dancing

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 20.5 × 24.5 cm (8 1/8 × 9 11/16 in.); Plate: 21 × 25 cm (8 5/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 21.6 × 25.5 cm (8 9/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

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La Poule

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.1 × 34.3 cm (9 1/2 × 13 9/16 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 34.8 cm (9 11/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Sheet: 25.3 × 35.5 cm (10 × 14 in.)

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The Spafields Orator Hunt-ing for Popularity to Do-good!!!

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 23 × 34.3 cm (9 1/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 35 cm (9 3/4 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 26.1 × 43.2 cm (10 5/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

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Liberty Suspended! With the Bulwark of the Constitution!

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.2 × 34.5 cm (9 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 25 × 34.8 cm (9 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 35.5 cm (10 1/16 × 14 in.)

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Hunt-ing the Bull!!

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 21.2 × 33.5 cm (8 3/8 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet, cut to platemark: 24 × 34.7 cm (9 1/2 × 13 11/16 in.)

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Royal Condescension

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 26.3 × 38.9 cm (10 3/8 × 15 3/8 in.); Plate: 27 × 39.7 cm (10 11/16 × 15 11/16 in.); Sheet: 27.3 × 40 cm (10 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)

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A R-Y-L Visit to a Foreign Capital

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 26.5 × 39.3 cm (10 7/16 × 15 1/2 in.); Sheet cut to platemark: 27.2 × 40 cm (10 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)

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Conspirators, or Delegates in Council

1817 · Hand-colored etching on ivory laid paper

Image/plate: 25.2 × 35.5 cm (9 15/16 × 14 in.); Sheet: 25.7 × 36.2 cm (10 1/8 × 14 5/16 in.)

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England's Only Hope Departing

1817 · Hand-colored etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 26.5 × 37 cm (10 7/16 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet cut to platemark: 27.5 × 38 cm (10 7/8 × 15 in.)

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D_d Angelic pon honor-Fascinating Creature Monstrous Handsome!!

1817 · Hand-colored etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 28.1 × 22.3 cm (11 1/8 × 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 33.3 × 23.5 cm (13 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.)

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Vis a Vis - Accidents in Quadrille Dancing

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 20.5 × 24.5 cm (8 1/8 × 9 11/16 in.); Plate: 21.2 × 25 cm (8 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 21.6 × 25.7 cm (8 9/16 × 10 1/8 in.)

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La Poule

1817 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.7 × 35.2 cm (9 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet cut to platemark: 25.7 × 36.5 cm (10 1/8 × 14 3/8 in.)

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The Death of Property Tax!!!

1816 · etching and engraving with publisher's hand coloring on laid paper

image: 22.5 × 33.8 cm (8 7/8 × 13 5/16 in.) sheet: 26 × 36.1 cm (10 1/4 × 14 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

State Physicians Bleeding John Bull to Death!!

1816 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 25.7 × 37 cm (10 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Plate: 26.2 × 37.5 cm (10 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.); Sheet: 26.8 × 38 cm (10 9/16 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

English Generals on the Peace Establishment!!!

1816 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image/plate: 23 × 33.7 cm (9 1/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Sheet: 23.7 × 34.8 cm (9 3/8 × 13 3/4 in.)

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The Elgin Marbles!

1816 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.2 × 34.4 cm (9 9/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 35 cm (9 3/4 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 25.3 × 35.5 cm (10 × 14 in.)

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Death of the Property Tax!!

1816 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.5 × 34.8 cm (9 11/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Plate: 25.2 × 35 cm (9 15/16 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 36 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

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The Triumph of the Dey of Algiers Over the Naval Glory of England!!

1816 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.2 × 34.5 cm (9 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 24.8 × 35.1 cm (9 13/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 35.7 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

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Female Intrepidity

1816 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.2 × 34.7 cm (9 9/16 × 13 11/16 in.); Plate: 25 × 35.7 cm (9 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 36 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

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Return of the Paris Diligence

1815 · 1815

Image: 23.1 × 40.7 cm (9 1/8 × 16 1/16 in.); Plate: 23.8 × 41.4 cm (9 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.1 × 41.7 cm (9 1/2 × 16 7/16 in.)

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Boney's Meditations on the Island of St. Helena

1815 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 35.5 × 25.7 cm (14 × 10 1/8 in.); Plate: 36.2 × 26.4 cm (14 5/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 26.7 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

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An Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

1815 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 25.5 × 35.8 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/8 in.); Plate: 26.2 × 36.5 cm (10 3/8 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 26.5 × 36.7 cm (10 7/16 × 14 1/2 in.)

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The Afterpiece to the Tragedy of Waterloo

1815 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 24.4 × 34.5 cm (9 5/8 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 25 × 35.5 cm (9 7/8 × 14 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 35.7 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

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The Pig Faced Lady of Manchester Square and The Spanish Mule of Madrid

1815 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 25.5 × 34.5 cm (10 1/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 26.2 × 35.2 cm (10 3/8 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 26.7 × 35.5 cm (10 9/16 × 14 in.)

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Game of Chess

1814 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 23.8 × 34.5 cm (9 3/8 × 13 5/8 in.); Sheet cut to platemark: 25 × 35.2 cm (9 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Miss endeavouring to excite a Glow with her Dutch Play Thing

1814 · hand coloring on paper

height: 250 cm, width: 355 cm

Rijksmuseum

An Election Ball

1813 · Hand-colored etching on paper

Image: 25.8 × 38.1 cm (10 3/16 × 15 in.); Plate: 26.5 × 38.8 cm (10 7/16 × 15 5/16 in.); Sheet: 29.2 × 41.8 cm (11 1/2 × 16 1/2 in.)

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The Admiral in St. Petersburgh; or, Poor Will foil'd again

1813 · letterpress printing on paper

width: 260 cm, height: 383 cm

Rijksmuseum

Comic Scene I

1812 · Pen and ink on paper

7.5 × 11.5 cm (3 × 4 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Comic Scene III

1812 · Pen and ink on paper

7.5 × 11.5 cm (3 × 4 9/16 in.)

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Comic Scene II

1812 · Pen and ink on paper

7.5 × 11.5 cm (3 × 4 9/16 in.)

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Early Sketches for Falstaff, Midsummer Night's Dream

1812 · Graphite on buff wove paper, laid down on buff wove card

23.2 × 18.8 cm (9 3/16 × 7 7/16 in.)

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Self-Portrait

1812 · Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, and watercolor wash, on cream laid paper

13 × 10.1 cm (5 1/8 × 4 in.)

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People Fleeing a Burning Building

1812 · Watercolor with touches of pen and black ink, over graphite, on ivory wove paper

14.5 × 22.5 cm (5 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.)

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Self-Portrait

1812 · Pen and brown ink, on dark ivory laid paper

22.5 × 18.3 cm (8 7/8 × 7 1/4 in.)

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Caricature of Self (recto); Cab Thrown by a Horse, with Other Sketches (verso)

1812 · Graphite (recto), and graphite and brush and brown wash (verso), on cream wove paper

9.5 × 10.1 cm (3 3/4 × 4 in.)

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Self-Portrait with Three Sketches

1812 · Graphite, on ivory wove paper, tipped on cream wove paper

18.4 × 11.2 cm (7 1/4 × 4 7/16 in.)

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Sheet of Sketches with Self-Portrait

1812 · Graphite with brush and watercolor wash, on cream wove paper

22.9 × 17.4 cm (9 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

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Untitled (Cruikshank letter with sketches of horse head)

1812 · Graphite with pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, red stamps and watercolor on cream wove paper

Letter: 24.7 × 19.2 cm (9 3/4 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 40.7 × 30.5 cm (16 1/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

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In the Spring the Wanton Lapwing gets himself another Crest

1812 · Watercolor and pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper

12.7 × 15 cm (5 × 5 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago