,see ,transcriber's ,notes at end of text4 ,special ,transcriber's ,notes3 ,text surrounded by originally printed in a sans serif typeface4 ,in the ,index you will find ,j replaces picture of small anchor4 ,the ,popular ,library of ,art ,edited by ,edward ,garnett ,the ,popular ,library of ,art ,,albrecht ,d,ue,r,e,r 7#cg ,illustrations74 ,by ,lina ,eckenstein ,,rossetti 7#ec ,illustrations74 ,by ,ford ,madox ,hueffer4 ,,rembrandt 7#fa ,illustrations74 ,by ,auguste ,breal4 ,,fred4 ,,walker 7#cb ,illustrations and ,photogravure74 ,by ,clementina ,black4 ,,millet 7#cb ,illustrations74 ,by ,romain ,rolland4 ,,the ,,french ,,impressionists 7#ej ,illustrations74 ,by ,camille ,mauclair4 ,,leonardo ,,da ,,vinci 7#dd ,illustrations74 ,by ,dr ,georg ,gronau4 ,,gainsborough 7#ee ,illustrations74 ,by ,arthur ,b4 ,chamberlain4 ,,botticelli 7#cg ,illustrations74 ,by ,julia ,cartwright 7,mrs ,ady74 ,,raphael 7#ej ,illustrations74 ,by ,julia ,cartwright 7,mrs ,ady74 ,,velazquez 7#ea ,illustrations74 ,by ,auguste ,breal4 ,,holbein 7#ej ,illustrations74 ,by ,ford ,madox ,hueffer4 ,,english ,,water ,,colour ,,painters 7#db ,illustrations74 ,by ,a4 ,j4 ,finberg4 ,,watteau 7#ce ,illustrations74 ,by ,camille ,mauclair4 ,,the ,,pre-,,raphaelite ,,brotherhood 7#ch ,illustrations74 ,by ,ford ,madox ,hueffer4 ,,perugino 7#ej ,illustrations74 ,by ,edward ,hutton4 ,,cruikshank4 ,by ,w4 ,h4 ,chesson4 ,,hogarth4 ,by ,edward ,garnett4 ,illustration3 ,,george ,,cruikshank ,,frightening ,,society ,from ,george ,cruikshank's ,omnibus1 #ahdb4 ,,george ,,cruikshank ,,by ,w4 ,h4 ,,chesson ,,author ,,of ,,name ,,this ,,child1 ,,etc4 ,,london3 ,,duckworth ,,co4 ,,new ,,york3 ,e4 ,p4 ,,dutton ,,co4 ,,printed ,,by ,,turnbull ,,and ,,spears4 ,,edinburgh ,,list ,,of ,,illustrations ,,in ,,order ,,of ,,date ,,date ,,subject ,,page ,circa #ahjj ,almsgiving #ac #ahae4 ,the ,scale of ,justice ,reversed #e #ahah4 ,title-page of ,the ,wits' ,magazine #bji #ahai4 ,johnny ,bull and ,his ,forged ,notes #bi #ahba4 ,comic ,composites for the ,scrap ,book #ada #ahba4 ,tom ,getting the ,best of a ,charley 7from ,life in ,london 7 #di #ahba4 ,new ,readings 7from ,the ,humorist7 #bje #ahbc4 ,exchange ,no ,robbery 7from ,points of ,humour7 #afg #ahbc4 ,peter ,schlemihl watching the ,clock 7from ,peter ,schlemihl7 #abg #ahbf4 ,juvenile ,monstrosities #cc #ahbf4 ,the ,goose ,girl 7from ,german ,popular ,stories7 #ade #ahbf4 ,hope 7from ,phrenological ,illustrations7 #agc #ahbg4 ,title-page of ,illustrations of ,time #bbe #ahbh4 ,a ,braying ,ass 7from ,the ,diverting ,history of ,john ,gilpin7 #bac #ahbh4 ,fatal ,effects of ,tight ,lacing 7from ,scraps and ,sketches7 #cg #ahbh4 ,a ,gentleman's ,rest ,broken 7from ,scraps and ,sketches7 #afc #ahbh4 ,punch ,throwing ,away the ,body ,of ,the ,servant 7from ,punch and ,judy7 #aca #ahcj4 ,the ,vicar of ,wakefield ,preaching to the ,prisoners 7from ,illustrations to ,popular ,works7 #aic #ahca4 ,crusoe's ,farmhouse and ,crusoe ,in his ,island ,home 7from ,the ,life and ,surprising ,adventures of ,robinson ,crusoe7 #bda #ahca4 ,adams's ,visit to ,parson ,trulliber 7from ,joseph ,andrews #a7 #ahi #ahcc4 ,don ,quixote and ,sancho ,returning ,home 7from ,the ,history and ,adventures of the ,renowned ,don ,quixote7 #bja ,footnote #a3 ,date of vol41 #ahcb4 #ahcc4 ,solomon ,eagle 7from ,a ,journal of the ,plague ,year7 #ig #ahcf4 ,september--,michaelmas ,day 7from ,the ,comic ,almanack1 #ahcf7 #da #ahcf4 ,x--,xantippe 7from ,a ,comic ,alphabet7 #aha #ahcf4 ,eh1 ,sirs6 7from ,landscape-,historical ,illustrations of ,scotland and the ,waverley ,novels1 ,waverley7 #afi #ahcf4 ,pro-di-gi-ous6 7from ,landscape-,historical ,illustrations of ,scotland and the ,waverley ,novels1 ,guy ,mannering7 #aig #ahcf4 ,turpin's ,flight ,through ,edmonton 7from ,rookwood7 #ge #ahcg4 ,the ,streets1 ,morning 7from ,sketches by ,boz7 #aja #ahcg4 ,the ,last ,cab-driver 7from ,sketches by ,boz7 #aje #ahch4 ,norna ,despatching the ,provisions 7from ,landscape-,historical ,illustrations of ,scotland and the ,waverley ,novels1 ,the ,pirate7 #bcg #ahci4 ,the ,turk's only ,daughter approaches ,lord ,bateman 7from ,the ,loving ,ballad of ,lord ,bateman7 #bbi #ahci4 ,jonathan ,wild seizing ,jack ,sheppard at his ,mother's ,grave 7from ,jack ,sheppard7 #gi #ahci4 ,jack ,sheppard drinking from ,st ,giles's ,bowl 7from ,jack ,sheppard7 #hj #ahdj4 ,the ,death ,warrant 7from ,the ,tower of ,london7 #hc #ahda4 ,the ,veterans 7from ,songs1 ,naval and ,national1 of ,charles ,dibden7 #bde #ahdb4 ,frightening ,society 7from ,george ,cruikshank's ,omnibus7 ,frontispiece #ahdb4 ,the ,duel in ,tothill ,fields 7from ,ainsworth's ,magazine1 ,the ,miser's ,daughter7 #hg #ahdb4 ,over-head and ,under-foot 7from ,the ,comic ,almanack7 #ec #ahdb4 ,legend of ,st ,medard 7from ,the ,ingoldsby ,legends7 #aag #ahdc4 ,herne the ,hunter appearing to ,henry ,,viii4 7from ,ainsworth's ,magazine1 ,windsor ,castle7 #acg #ahdd4 ,the ,marquis de ,guiscard attempting to assassinate ,harley 7from ,ainsworth's ,magazine1 ,saint ,james's7 #ia #ahde4 ,the ,lion of the ,party 7from ,george ,cruikshank's ,table-,book7 #ahe #ahde4 ,details from ,heads of the ,table 7from ,george ,cruikshank's ,table-,book7 #agg #ahdg4 ,amaranth carried by the ,bee's ,monster ,steed 7from ,the ,good ,genius that ,turned ,everything into ,gold7 #adi #ahdg4 ,the ,cat ,did ,it6 7from ,the ,greatest ,plague in ,life7 #bba #ahdh4 ,shoeing the ,devil 7from ,the ,true ,legend of ,st ,dunstan7 #abb #ahdh4 ,the ,devil about to ,sign 7from ,the ,true ,legend of ,st ,dunstan 7 #abc #ahdi4 ,miss ,eske carried away during her ,trance 7from ,clement ,lorimer7 #aji #ahec4 ,the ,glass of ,whiskey after the ,goose 7from ,the ,glass and the ,new ,crystal ,palace7 #fb #ahec4 ,the ,goose after the ,whiskey 7from ,the ,glass and the ,new ,crystal ,palace7 #fc #ahed4 ,when the ,elephant stands upon his ,head 7from ,george ,cruikshank's ,magazine7 #bag #ahed4 ,the ,pumpkin1 etc41 being changed into a ,coach1 etc41 7from ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library1 ,cinderella7 #aec #ahfd4 ,the ,ogre in the form of a ,lion 7from ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library1 ,puss in ,boots7 #aeg #ahge4 ,monk ,reading 7from ,peeps at ,life7 #bdi ,n4,d4 ,eliza ,cruikshank 7from a painting7 #aac 99999999 ,the dates in the footlines and in this list are those of the first appearance of the works to which they refer4 ,in certain cases the reproductions have been made from good impressions which are not the earliest of the plates in question4 ,i ,the life of ,george ,cruikshank extended from ,september #bg1 #agib1 to ,february #a1 #ahgh1 and the known work of his hand dates from #agii to #ahge4 ,in #ahdj ,thackeray wrote of him as of a hero of his boyhood1 asking jocundly1 ,did we not forego tarts in order to buy his ,breaking-up or his ,fashionable ,monstrosities of the year eighteen hundred and something8 ,in #ahfc1 the year of ,thackeray's death1 ,cruikshank was asked1 by the committee who exhibited his ,worship of ,bacchus1 to associate with that work some of his early drawings in order to prove that he was not his own grandfather4 ,for years before he reached the great but unsensational age at which he died1 a sort of cult was vested in his longevity4 ,dated plates--that entitled ,the ,rose and the ,lily 7#ahge7 offers the last example--imply that his art figured to him finally as a kind of athleticism4 ,it was as if1 in using his burin or needles1 he was doing a turn before sightseers1 with a hired ,time innocuously scything on the platform beside him to show him off4 ,now that his mortality has been proven for a quarter of a century1 we can coldly ask3 why did he seem so old to himself and the world8 ,others greater than he--,titian1 ,watts--have laboured with genius under a heavier crown of snow than he2 and the public has applauded their vigour without a doubt of their identity4 ,the reason is that they have not been the journalists of their age4 ,they have not1 like ,cruikshank1 reflected in their works inventions and fashions1 wars and scandals1 jokes and politics1 whence the world has emerged unrecognisably the same4 ,it is said that when ,cruikshank was eighty-three1 he executed a sword-dance before an old officer who had mentally buried him4 ,it was an action characteristic of a nature that was scarcely more naive and impulsive at one time than another1 but it was the most confusing proof of the fact in debate which he could have offered4 ,it was not of a numeral that the doubter thought when the existence of ,cruikshank was presented to his mind's eye4 ,his thought we may elaborate as follows4 ,the artist who drew ,napoleon week by week1 with all the vulgar insolence which only a great man's contemporaries can display towards him1 was the same who1 half a century after the ,emperor's death1 produced a conception of the ,leader of the ,parisian ,blood ,red ,republic of #ahgj4 ,the artist who1 in the last year of the reign of ,george the ,third1 depicted ,thistlewood's lair in ,cato ,street1 drew also1 as though with a mother's tender care1 almost every pane in that glass palace which the trees of ,hyde ,park inhabited in #ahea4 ,before the punctuality of his interest in everything new that rose to the surface to obliterate an expiring mode or event1 we stand astonished4 ,it is not so much as an artist that we here admire him4 ,it is as an ,argus of the street1 an ,argus not only with many eyes but with feet enough to plant him at once in a hundred corners4 ,from this voluble ,argus his mistress ,clio recoils but cannot dismiss him4 ,aghast she observes him presenting the ,prince ,regent in a hundred burlesquely improper parts2 and it is a discreet generation indeed which remembers ,coriolanus addressing the ,plebeians and forgets ,the ,fat in the ,fire4 ,clio withdraws1 but does not forbid us to stay4 ,and stay ,i do1 at all events1 to examine the packed and ugly caricatures which are the visible laughter of ,cruikshank the ,argus of journalism4 ,their violent colours and vigorous lines fail not in invocation4 ,before the student of them rise the supple1 blue-eyed leech called ,mrs ,clarke and her grossly-doating ,commander-in-chief2 ,lady ,jersey1 ,lady ,douglas and the other villains of the drama entitled ,queen ,caroline2 the ,marchioness of ,hertford1 the ,countess of ,yarmouth1 or whoever brought down upon ,coriolanus the heigho6 of a ribald ,rowly2 and1 lest one grow lenient to royal self-indulgence1 it is accused by the recurring presence of a figure of tormented respectability4 ,it is the ,cruikshankian ,john ,bull1 as different from ,sir ,f4 ,c4 ,gould's well-fed monitor of ,conservative politicians as is ,cruikshank's darkly criminal ,punch from ,richard ,doyle's domesticated patron of humour4 ,this ,john ,bull is hacked to make a ,corsican and ,yankee holiday1 taxed at the bayonet's point1 starved on bread at eighteenpence the quartern1 and offered up as a sacrifice to a ,bourbon ,bumble-head4 ,illustration3 ,,caricature ,,on ,,taxation ,no4 #dfd of ,reid's ,catalogue1 published ,march #ai1 #ahae4 ,but the visions that detain the student of ,cruikshank the journalist are not only of personages and events4 ,he saw and recorded the crowd and the clothes of the crowd4 ,his art preserves the ladies of #ahaf1 who resembled the bowls of tobacco pipes2 the men of #ahbb1 who wore trousers like pears2 and the children of #ahbf1 whom the hatter turned into ,mushroom ,monstrosities4 ,cruikshank the journalist constitutes a fame in himself whose trumpeters are ,fairburn1 ,fores1 ,humphrey1 ,hone 4441 publishers who1 in an age before photo-engraving1 easily sold topical caricatures separately at a shilling or more4 ,gillray's name1 in my estimation1 outweighs ,cruikshank's at the foot of such publications1 while ,rowlandson's weighs less4 ,together these three masters of caricature compose a constellation of third and fourth ,georgian humour4 ,but we have by no means done with ,cruikshank when we have admired him there4 ,a greater ,cruikshank remains to be admired4 ,of him there is no assignable master2 neither ,hogarth nor ,gillray4 ,he is the illustrator whose fame makes more than six hundred books and pamphlets desirable2 he is truly an artist1 a maker of beauty4 ,stimulated though this greater ,cruikshank was in the flatter and more decent epoch which succeeded the age of ,coriolanus or ,king ,teapot1 of ,don ,whiskerandos or ,sardanapalus1 ,regent and ,king of ,britain and mandarin of ,brighton1 it was in the age of muddle and debauch1 not in the age of ,victorian propriety and reform1 that ,cruikshank entered fairyland for the first time and saw the little people face to face4 ,cobbett has ignored the fact1 but there is grace in it even for the ,big ,sovereign whom he pilloried in five hundred and eleven paragraphs4 ,we shall find1 alas6 as we proceed1 that1 as illustrator1 ,cruikshank often sank below his journalistic level4 ,the journalist may always take refuge in the actual life of the fact before him2 his are real landscapes1 real faces4 ,but the illustrator has often only lifeless words to instruct him2 when short of inspiration he is in the thraldom of his manner4 ,cruikshank's thraldom to his manner was the more obvious1 since the manner was often wooden1 often joyously ugly4 ,his fame perpetuates his failures4 ,the insipidity which affronted ,boz has no effect in stopping the demand for the fireside plate4 ,still1 his best as well as his worst is in his illustration of books4 ,it is his best that excuses the criticism of his worst and enrols him among the great artists of the nineteenth century4 ,i propose in the pages that shall follow to set down the significance both of his best and of his worst1 avoiding1 as befits the date of my labour1 any biographical matter which does not throw light on his art4 ,and first let us follow his path in journalism4 ,,ii ,the limits of ,cruikshank's genius and the spacious area between them are almost implied in the fact that he was a ,londoner who seldom or never departed from the tight little island4 ,born in ,duke ,street1 ,st ,george's1 ,bloomsbury1 if the statement in his epitaph in ,st ,paul's ,cathedral is to be accepted1 he continued a ,londoner to the end3 living in ,dorset ,street1 near ,fleet ,street1 in ,amwell ,street1 and ,myddelton ,terrace1 ,pentonville1 and finally in the house called successively #dh ,mornington ,place and #bfc ,hampstead ,road4 ,yet this cockney depicted the ,spain of ,don ,quixote and ,gil ,bias1 the ,ireland of ,lord ,edward ,fitzgerald1 and the ,america of ,uncle ,tom4 ,such courageous versatility was the outcome of a training so practical that ,i hesitate to call it an artistic education4 ,his father1 ,isaac1 was a ,lowland ,scot who lived and1 unfortunately1 drank by his art1 which in #aghi1 #agij and #agib was represented at the ,royal ,academy4 ,his period was from #agef or #ageg to #ahaj or #ahaa4 ,like his friend ,james ,gillray1 he caricatured on the side of ,pitt4 ,i remember no better caricature of his than ,pastimes of ,primrose ,hill 7,attic ,miscellany1 #ast ,sept4 #agia71 depicting a perspiring tallow chandler trundling his children up that eminence4 ,he was energetic in the delineation of the insipid jollity considered appropriate to sailors1 and he celebrated the ,o4,p4 riots at ,covent ,garden by drawing ,angelica ,catalani as a cat4 ,thomas ,wright places him only after ,gillray and ,rowlandson as a caricaturist1 but it is probable that the man's best is of an academic sort1 such as the pretty drawings which he contributed to a #agid edition of ,thomson's ,seasons4 ,isaac ,cruikshank's workroom was that of a busy hack1 and ,george had not been long in the world before he played ghost there on his father's copperplates4 ,one of his early tasks was the background of ,daniel in the ,lions' ,den4 ,none who looks at the drawing of a supercilious benefactor1 which is one of ,george's earliest efforts1 can doubt that in him the caricaturing instinct was basic4 ,the eye is indulgent to several crudities1 because the flinging is drawn though the hand of contempt is not1 while the gluttonous enthusiasm of the beggar is a triumph of juvenile observation4 ,here are characters if not figures2 here from a little boy is work that deserves a laugh4 ,hence it is not surprising that ,george ,cruikshank has been erroneously credited with a share in ,facing the ,enemy1 a dateless etching1 delightfully droll in animal expression1 etched by his father1 after a sketch by ,h4 ,woodward1 and published in #agig-h1 according to ,mr ,a4 ,m4 ,broadley1 and not in #ahjc as formerly conjectured4 ,illustration3 ,,specimen ,,of ,,very ,,early ,,work1 from the original drawing1 ,no4 #ihej in the ,george ,cruikshank ,collection1 ,south ,kensington ,museum4 #ahjc is the year of ,cruikshank's ,opus ,i41 according to ,g4 ,w4 ,reid1 his most voluminous bibliographer4 ,this work1 printed and sold by ,w4 ,belch of ,newington ,butts1 consists of four marine pieces on a sheet1 most comfortably unprecocious and as wooden as a ,dutch doll4 ,a humorist inspecting it might profess to see in a woman1 whose nose and forehead produce one and the same straight line1 a prophecy of the ,cruikshankian nose which is so monotonously recurrent an ornament in the works of the great ,george4 ,cruikshank himself averred that one of the first etchings he was ever employed to do and paid for was a sheet of ,lottery ,prints 7published in #ahjd7 of which he made a copy in his eighty-first year4 ,the etching contains sixteen drawings of shops4 ,the barber's shop door is open to disclose an equestrian galloping past it1 although1 even as a man1 he drew horses which ,g4 ,a4 ,sala declared were wrong in all the traditional forty-four points4 ,george ,cruikshank himself1 whom1 as ,mr ,g4 ,s4 ,layard has shown1 he repeatedly drew1 appears in a compartment of this etching1 in the act of conveying the plate of it to the shop of ,belch1 a name for which ,langham is substituted in a re-issue of this gamblers' temptation1 and which dwindles into ,langley ,belch in the copy made by ,cruikshank in #ahgc1 published by ,g4 ,bell1 ,york ,st41 ,covent ,garden4 #ahjf is the date of the first book1 or rather pamphlet1 with which ,george ,cruikshank is connected4 ,it is entitled ,the ,impostor ,unmasked1 and pillories ,sheridan for a farcical swindler and something worse4 ,there is a folding plate to fortify the charges of ,patricius the scandal-monger1 and this is ascribed to ,george by ,reid1 though ,captain ,douglas1 ,george's latest bibliographer1 only allows that there seems to be some of ,george's work in it4 ,reid's authority1 which had in all probability the living ,george's behind it1 excuses a brief description of this plate4 ,sheridan is depicted in the act of addressing a crowd of ,stafford electors1 amongst whom are several creditors who pun bitterly on the parliamentary word ,bill and damn the respects which he pays them4 ,a house on the right of the hustings might have been sketched on a slate by any child weary of pothooks1 but there is a touch of true humour in the quiet joy shown on the face of a supporter of ,sheridan in the heckling to which he is subjected4 ,gillray had already published 7,march #aj1 #ahje7 his ,uncorking ,old ,sherry1 and so this ,cruikshankian caricature may be accepted as ,george's first step in the ,gillrayan path4 ,the path of ,gillray1 in and out of which runs the path of ,thomas ,rowlandson1 is seldom or never dull2 sometimes unclean in a manner malodorous as manure1 but with risings which offer illuminating views4 ,his humour is tyrannically laughable4 ,the guffaw is1 as it were1 kicked out of the spectator of ,the ,apotheosis of ,hoche 7#agih7 by the descending boots1 depicted as reluctantly yielding to the law of gravity1 which the triumphant devastator of ,la ,vendee has overcome4 ,gillray's sense of design was superb1 and he would be an enthusiast who should assert that ,george ,cruikshank in political caricature produced works at once so striking and architecturally admirable as ,the ,giant ,factotum ,pitt ,amusing ,himself 7#agig74 ,gillray possessed what ,cruikshank lacked altogether1 the inclination and power to draw voluptuousness with some justice to its charm4 ,one has only to cite in confirmation of this statement ,the ,morning after ,marriage 7,august #e1 #aghh71 and compare it with any of those caricatures in which ,cruikshank exhibits the erotic preferences of ,george the ,third's children4 ,what1 however1 ,cruikshank1 in the artistic meaning of vision1 saw in ,gillray1 he adapted with the force of a boisterous participant in the patriotism and demagogy of his day4 ,gillray had ,napoleon for his prey1 and no political criticism is pithier than the caricature which represents the ,emperor as ,tiddy-,doll1 the great ,french ,gingerbread-,baker1 drawing out a new ,batch of ,kings 7#ahjf74 ,on the other hand1 nothing that ,swift is believed to have omitted in his description of ,brobdingnag could be coarser than ,the ,corsican ,pest 7#ahjc74 ,it is almost literally humour of the latrine4 ,unhappily ,cruikshank exulted like a young barbarian in the licence conferred by precedent1 and it is hard to view with tolerance his pictorial records of the first swell of the age4 ,one of the wittiest is ,boney ,hatching a ,bulletin1 or ,snug ,winter ,quarters 7,dec4 #ahab72 the ,grand ,army is there seen in the form of heads and bayonets protruding from a stratum of ,russian snow2 the courier who is to convey the bulletin has boards under his boots to prevent his submersion4 ,elsewhere one's admiration for inventive vigour struggles against disgust at a mode which one only hesitates to call blackguardism because the liveliest contents of the paint-box were lavished upon it4 ,take1 for instance1 the caricature which bears the rhymed title1 ,boney tir'd of war's alarms1 flies for safety to his darling's arms 7#ahac74 ,the devil bears ,bonaparte on his shoulders to the ,empress ,marie ,louise1 after the ,russian campaign4 ,take him to ,bed1 my ,lady1 and ,thaw him1 says the devil4 ,i am almost petrified in helping him to escape from his ,army4 ,i shall expect him to say his prayers to me every night6 ,another ,cruikshankian caricature1 ,the ,imperial ,family going to the ,devil 7,march #ahad71 represents the rejection of ,napoleon by that connoisseur of reprobates1 though ,rowlandson in the same month and year depicted the fallen emperor as ,the ,devil's ,darling4 ,cruikshank's vulgar facetiousness1 interesting by sheer vigour and self-enjoyment1 pursues ,napoleon even to ,st ,helena in the heartless caricature which portrays him as an ennuye reduced for amusement to rat-catching4 ,it was not for nothing that ,thomas ,moore1 alluding to the ,prince ,regent as ,big ,ben1 made ,tom ,cribb say3-- ,having conquer'd the prime one1 that mill'd us all round1 ,you kick'd him1 old ,ben1 as he gasp'd on the ground4 ,gillray is said to have sometimes disguised his style in order to evade his agreement with ,humphrey that he would work for no other publisher2 and there is more than one of ,cruikshank's ,napoleonic caricatures which might be ascribed to ,gillray's dram-providing alter ego if their authorship were in question4 ,of such is ,quadrupeds1 or ,little ,boney's ,last ,kick1 published in ,the ,scourge 7#ahac74 ,here the ,russian bear holds a birch in his right paw1 and ,napoleon by an ankle with his left2 a naked devil points to the crown1 tumbling from the head of the capsized emperor2 on the ground is an ironical bulletin4 ,old ,blucher beating the ,corsican ,big ,drum 7#ahad7 is an even closer match of the baser sort of ,gillrayan caricature2 while the particular stench of it rises from ,boney's ,elb7a7ow ,chair1 of the same date4 ,the last caricature from ,cruikshank upon ,napoleon came feebly in #ahdb with the issue of ,george ,cruikshank's ,omnibus1 wherein he figures as a skeleton in boots surmounting a pyramid of skulls4 ,the caricaturist's harlequinade had lasted too long2 when it ceased1 the soul of it utterly perished1 and one views impatiently so formal and witless a galvanisation as was suggested by the return of ,napoleon1 dead1 to the reconquest of ,france4 ,of ,cruikshank's ,napoleonic caricatures as a whole1 it may be said that their function was solely to relieve by ridicule the pressure of a grandiose and formidable personality upon the nerves of his countrymen4 ,he did not1 like ,gillray in ,the ,handwriting on the ,wall1 confess the historic greatness of ,napoleon by an allusion so sublime that it afforded ,hone a precedent for unpunished impiety4 ,when1 for serio-comic verse1 he attempted to delineate a monitory apparition1 in the shape of ,napoleon's ,red ,man1 the result was absurdity veiled by dulness4 99 99 99 99 99 ,but it is time to turn to the ,cruikshankian view of persons and things in ,great ,britain in the lifetime of ,adonis the ,great4 ,it is said that while ,gillray was productive1 an old ,general of the ,german ,legion remarked1 alluding to caricature1 ,ah6 ,i dell you vot--,england is altogether von libel4 ,with the spirit of this speech1 one can cordially agree4 ,the concupiscence of princes was serialised for the mirth of the crowd4 ,there were two great types of ascendant degeneracy to divert the eyes of ,farmer ,george's subjects from their shops and ,bibles4 ,one was his son ,george1 the other ,mary ,anne ,clarke4 ,the cabinet in which ,george kept capillary souvenirs of so many women was fastened against contemporary critics of his career4 ,undivulged1 therefore1 was the touching sentiment of a philofeminism which1 in excluding his legal wife1 was construed but as vice4 ,there was no ,max ,beerbohm in his day to appreciate his polish and talents and to pity his wife for playing her tragedy in tights4 ,there was no one to pronounce him the slave of that most endearing of tyrants1 the artistic temperament4 ,the caricaturists saw simply a polygamist eager to convict of adultery the wife whom he disliked and avoided1 and a spendthrift whose debt was inflicted upon the nation4 ,so far as man can show up his fellow-men1 this man was shown up1 and in verse and picture became an instrument of public titillation4 ,so roguish a severity as the caricaturists displayed can seldom be accepted as didactic ,gillray1 indeed1 in ,the ,morning after ,marriage followed him into the bridal chamber of ,mrs ,fitzherbert whom he married in #aghe1 and this caricature is the best advertisement of his grace and beauty which perhaps exists4 ,when attacked by ,cruikshank1 he was over forty1 for the first caricature of him in which that artist's hand is noticeable was published in #ahjh4 ,it is entitled ,john ,bull ,advising with ,his ,superiors3 the superiors being ,george and his brother ,frederick1 who sit under the portraits of their respective mistresses1 ,mrs ,fitz and ,mrs ,clarke4 ,john ,bull is clean-shaven1 fat-nosed1 hatted1 and holds a gnarled stick4 ,servant ,measters1 he begins1 ,i be come to ax a bit of thy advice2 but he proceeds to freeze them with clumsy innuendo and adds1 ,i does love good old ,georg sic1 by ,goles6 because he is not of that there sort1 meaning their own4 ,after this1 the ,regent was for ,cruikshank a stimulant to the drollest audacities4 ,the world was younger then and could laugh uproariously at the bursting of a dandy's stays and the mislaying of a roue's removable whiskers4 ,mrs ,grundy had not persuaded it of the superior comicality of ,mrs ,newlywed's indestructible pie-crust and ,mr ,staylate's interview with the parental boot4 ,so ,george1 who1 at any rate1 was real life1 blossomed abundantly to another ,george's advantage4 ,thus ,the ,coronation of the ,empress of the ,nairs 7,september #ahab7--;a simile suggested by a contemporary account of a curious ,asiatic race--depicts him as crowning the ,marchioness of ,hertford in her bath2 ,a ,kick from ,yarmouth to ,wales illustrates the assault of the provoked ,earl of ,yarmouth upon his wife's too fervent admirer2 and ,princely ,agility 7,january #ahab7 shows ,his ,royal castigated ,highness confined by a convenient sprained ankle to bed1 where his whiskers and wig are restored to him4 ,the opening of ,henry the ,eighth's coffin in ,st ,george's ,chapel1 ,windsor1 ,april #a1 #ahac1 suggests to ,cruikshank ,meditations ,amongst the ,tombs1 in which the greatness of the deceased sovereign forcibly strikes the ,regent4 ,great indeed6 he is made to say1 for he got rid of many wives1 whilst ,i1 poor soul1 can't get rid of one4 ,cut off his beard1 doctor1 'twill make me a prime pair of royal whiskers4 ,the prince's partiality for the bottle is severely illustrated4 ,in ,the ,phenix sic of ,elba ,resuscitated by ,treason 7,may #a1 #ahae71 he receives the news of ,napoleon's outbreak1 seated on a cushion with a decanter behind him2 and even when he was ,king1 ,cruikshank dared to draw him 7#ahbb7 as drunk and curing an irritated cuticle by leaning his kilted person against one of the posts of ,argyleshire4 ,if1 however1 ,caroline of ,brunswick had not1 by adopting a ,meredithian baby and other eccentricities1 condemned herself to ,delicate ,investigation in #ahjf and to a trial before the ,house of ,peers in #ahbj1 ,cruikshank's delineations of ,adonis the ,great would have seemed genial compared with ,thackeray's contempt4 ,that his sentiment for the lady was less chivalrous than ,thackeray esteemed it1 may be divined by his caricature of her as an ugly statue of ,xantippe put up to auction without the least reserve 7#ahba71 which is less than two months older than his conception of her as a rushlight which ,slander cannot blow out4 ,but he perceived1 as did the whole intelligent proletariat1 the monstrous irony of ,george's belated notice of his wife4 ,hence in his woodcuts to ,the ,queen's ,matrimonial ,ladder and ,non ,mi ,ricordo6 he is not comic but satirical1 and satirical with strokes that turn ,the ,dandy of ,sixty who bows with a grace into a figure abjectly defiant1 meanly malevolent1 devoid of levity4 ,a cut in the former pamphlet shows him standing in a penitential sheet under the seventh1 ninth and tenth commandments1 meeting the gaze of an astonished urchin2 on the outside of the latter pamphlet we see him in the throes of awkward interrogation1 uttering the ,non ,mi ,ricordo which ,caroline's ill-wishers were tired of hearing in the mouth of ,bergami4 ,mary ,anne ,clarke1 our second type of ascendant degeneracy1 was1 if ,buck's drawing of her is truthful1 a woman of seductive prettiness1 but she could not teach ,cruikshank her charm in atonement for her venality4 ,he drew her petticoat supported by military boots and surmounted by a cocked hat and the mitre of the ducal bishop of ,osnaburg 7,february #bc1 #ahji72 under this1 it is stated1 may be found a soothing for every pain4 ,when ,whigs and the ,prince of ,wales sent the ,duke of ,york back in #ahaa to the high post which he had disgraced1 ,mrs ,clarke dwindled in ,cruikshank's caricature to a dog improperly exhibiting its contempt for ,colonel ,wardle's left eye4 ,it is curious that the ,clarke scandal did not apparently inspire any caricature which deserves to live as pictorial criticism4 ,revealing1 as it did1 not only rottenness in the ,state1 but in the ,church1 since ,dr ,o',meara sought ,mrs ,clarke's interest for the privilege of preaching before royalty1 one may well be surprised at the failure of caricature to ennoble itself in the cause of honour and religion4 ,yet ,cruikshank produced in #ahaa a powerful etching--,interior ,view of the ,house of ,god--which shows1 apropos a lustful fanatic named ,carpenter1 his power to have seized the missed opportunity4 ,in this plate is the contemporary portrait of himself which ,p4 ,d',aiguille afterwards copied4 ,if we ask1 for our soul's sake1 to sicken of the ,regent's amours and of the demure ,magdalen of ,york1 whose scarlet somehow softens to maroon because she is literary and quotes ,sallust1 it is necessary to leave the caricatures which laugh with her--especially ,rowlandson's--and look at ,cruikshank's tormented ,john ,bull4 ,the most pathetic is perhaps ,john ,bull's ,three ,stages 7#ahae74 ,in the last stage 7,peace with all the ,world7 his child1 once pressed to eat after repletion1 says1 ,give me some more bone4 ,the hand that drew the earlier plates of ,the ,bottle is unmistakable in this etching4 ,it was seemingly in #ahai that ,cruikshank first realised his great powers as a critic in caricature4 ,to that period belongs what a pamphleteer called ,satan's ,bank ,note3-- ,notes which a 'prentice boy could make ,at fifteen for a shilling4 ,the ,old ,lady of ,threadneedle ,street earned thereby the sobriquet of ,hangland's ,bank1 and her victims included two women on a day when ,cruikshank looked at the gibbet of the ,old ,bailey4 ,they were hanged for passing forged one pound notes4 ,cruikshank thereupon drew his famous ,bank ,restriction ,note1 signed by ,jack ,ketch1 and with a vignette of ,britannia devouring her children above an ,l of rope4 ,hone issued this note 7of which there are three varieties7 from his shop on ,ludgate ,hill1 a stone's throw from the gibbet2 the public flocked to see and buy it1 and the moral was not lost upon the ,bank of ,england1 who thereafter sent forth no more one pound notes4 ,the pathos as distinct from the tragedy of the condition thus relieved is well recalled by the caricature invented by ,yedis and drawn by ,cruikshank entitled ,johnny ,bull and his ,forged ,notes 7,january #g1 #ahai74 ,illustration3 ,johnny ,bull and his ,,forged ,notes66 or ,,rags ,,ruin in the ,paper ,currency666 ,no4 #hfe in ,reid's ,catalogue1 published ,jan4 #ahai4 ,we now turn to the lighter side of his topical journalism4 ,one of his subjects was gas-lighting4 ,the ,good ,effects of ,carbonic ,gas 7#ahjg7 depicts one cat swooning and another cut off from the list of living prime donne by the maleficence of ,winzer's illuminant4 ,in #ahcc ,cruikshank reported a ghost as saying to a fellow-shade1 ,ah6 brother1 we never has no fun now2 this ',march of ,intellect' and the ,gaslights have done us up4 ,jenner had him for both partisan 7#ahjh7 and opponent 7#ahab74 ,in the former role he makes a ,jennerite say1 ,surely the disorder of the ,cow is preferable to that of the ,ass1 and the realism is nauseous that accompanies the remark4 ,as opponent he wittily follows ,gillray1 who in #ahjb imagined an inoculated man as calving from his arms4 ,prominent in ,cruikshank's caricature 7a bitter one7 is a sarcophagus upon which lies a cow whom ,time is decapitating4 ,to the ,memory of ,vaccina who died ,april the ,first1 is the touching inscription4 ,i have already mentioned ,cruikshank as a chronicler of fashion4 ,gillray was his master in this form of art1 though the statement does not rest on the two examples here given4 ,the thoughtful reader will not fail to admire the incongruity between the children in the drawing of #ahbf and the great verities of ,nature--cliff and sea--between which they strut4 ,the latter drawing is as grotesquely logical as a syllogism by ,lewis ,carroll4 ,comparable with it in persuasiveness is ,cruikshank's short-skirted lady 7,december #ahcc7 who is alarmed at her own shadow1 which naturally exaggerates the distance between her ankles and her skirt4 ,thence one turns for contrast to the caricature of crinolines in ,the ,comic ,almanack for #ahej4 ,it is called ,a ,splendid ,spread1 and represents gentlemen handing refreshments to ladies across wildernesses of dress-extenders by means of long baker's peels4 ,such drawing educates2 it has the value of criticism4 ,illustration3 ,,juvenile ,,monstrosities1 published ,january #bd1 #ahbf4 ,this praise is tributary to ,cruikshank's second journalistic period4 ,by journalistic ,i mean topical1 attendant on the passing hour4 ,his first journalistic period begins formally with his first properly signed caricature1 an etching praised by ,mr ,f4 ,g4 ,stephens1 entitled ,cobbett at ,court1 or ,st ,james's in a bustle1 and published by ,w4 ,deans1 ,october #af1 #ahjg4 ,this period includes ,cruikshank's contributions to ,the ,satirist1 ,the ,scourge1 ,town ,talk and ,the ,meteor4 ,it merges into the second period in #ahai1 the year that saw the first three volumes of ,the ,humourist4 ,the principal journalistic works of this second journalistic period are ,coriolanus addressing the ,plebeians 7#ahbj71 ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahbh-ahcb71 ,the ,comic ,almanack 7#ahce-ahec71 ,george ,cruikshank's ,omnibus 7#ahdb71 and ,george ,cruikshank's ,table ,book 7#ahde74 ,coriolanus is less a caricature than a tableau vivant4 ,it was invented by ,j4 ,s41 whom ,mr ,layard says was ,cruikshank's gifted servant ,joseph ,sleap4 ,the ,plebeians are ,thistlewood the conspirator1 ,cobbett armed with ,tom ,paine's thigh bones1 ,wooler as a black dwarf1 ,hone1 ,george ,cruikshank1 etc4 ,george ,,iv41 in his ,shakespearean role abuses them soundly4 ,as regards the monarch1 the work is un-,cruikshankian2 its laborious and minute technique is a foreshadowing of a happier carefulness4 ,the journalism of ,scraps and ,sketches is immortal in ,the ,age of ,intellect 7#ahbh71 which even ,mrs ,meynell1 writing as ,alice ,thompson1 found most laughable4 ,here a babe whose toy-basket is filled with the works of ,milton1 ,bentley1 ,gibbon1 etc41 learnedly explains the process of sucking eggs to a gaping grandmother1 who suspends her perusal of ,who ,killed ,cock ,robin8 while she declares that they are making improvements in everything6 ,to my mind the best topical plate in ,scraps and ,sketches is ,london going out of ,town1 or the ,march of ,bricks and ,mortar 7#ahbi74 ,no one who has seen a suburb grow inexorably in field and orchard1 obliterating gracious forms and sealing up the live earth1 can miss the pathos of this masterpiece4 ,yet it is not a thing for tears1 but that half smile which ,andersen continually elicits by his evocation of humanity from tree and bird and toy4 ,for ,cruikshank gives lamenting and terrified humanity to hayricks pursued by filthy smoke4 ,he gives devilish energy to a figure1 artfully composed of builder's implements1 which saws away at a dying branch2 and he imparts an abominable insolence to a similarly composed figure which holds up the notice board of ,mr ,goth4 ,illustration3 ,fatal effects of tight lacing large ,bonnets ,from ,scraps and ,sketches1 ,part ,i41 ,may #bj1 #ahbh4 ,nearer perhaps to ,cruikshank's heart than this triumph of fancy was ,the ,fiend's ,frying ,pan 7#ahcb71 published in the last number of ,scraps and ,sketches1 which represents the devil1 immensely exultant1 holding over a fire a frying-pan which contains the whole noisy lascivious crowd and spectacle of ,bartholomew ,fair4 ,the fair was proclaimed for the last time in #ahee1 and ,cruikshank was pleased to figure himself as an inspirer of the force that struck at its corrupt charm after the fair of #ahci and condemned it to a lingering death4 ,the ,fiend's ,frying ,pan is now chiefly remarkable as an early example of ,cruikshank's love of crowding a great deal of real life into a vehicle that belittles it4 ,this frying-pan sends the thought forward to the etching entitled ,passing ,events1 or the ,tail of the ,comet of #ahec1 where ,albert ,smith's lecture on ,mont ,blanc1 a prize cattle show1 emigration to ,australia1 and ,uncle ,tom's ,cabin1 are all jumbled together in the hair of a comet which possesses a chubby and beaming face4 ,the pictorial journalism of the ,comic ,almanacks is often delicious2 no ephemerides1 in my knowledge1 equal them in sustained humorous effect4 ,guys in ,council 7#ahdh7 haunts one with its grave idiocy4 ,even ,his ,holiness ,pius ,x4 could scarce refrain from smiling at the blank stare of the rigid papal guy in the chair1 at the low guy who1 ere leaving the conclave1 challenges him with a glance of malignant cunning4 ,on the other hand1 it would be hypercritical to seek a prettier rendering of an almost too pretty custom than ,old ,may ,day 7#ahcf71 with its dancers ringing the ,maypole by the village church4 ,cruikshank's extraordinary power of conveying dense crowds into the space of a few square inches--say six by three--is shown in ,lord ,mayor's ,day 7#ahcf7 and ,the ,queen's ,own 7#ahch71 illustrating ,victoria's ,proclamation ,day4 ,in the #ahdd ,almanack he humorously foreshadows flying machines in the form of mansions2 but the #ahea ,almanack shows his liberality scarcely abreast of his imagination1 as ,modern ,ballooning is represented by an ass on horseback ascending as balloonist above a crowd of the long-eared tribe4 ,illustration3 ,,september--,,michaelmas ,,day4 ,from the ,comic ,almanack1 #ahcf4 ,one cannot1 however1 glance through ,cruikshank's ,victorian caricatures without perceiving that the passing of the ,regent slackened his ,gillrayan fire4 ,true1 in the ,table ,book we have a ,john ,bull whose agony reminds us of the suffering figure in ,preparing ,john ,bull for ,general ,congress 7#ahac73 the midgets of infelicitous railway speculation who strip this bewildered squire of hat and rings1 of boots and pocket-book1 while a demented bell fortifies their din1 are of an energy supremely ,cruikshankian3 no other hand drew them than the hand which enriched the immortality of the elves in ,grimm4 ,nor will one easily tire of a vote-soliciting crocodile in the ,omnibus2 and yet the fact remains that the great motives of ,cruikshank's political caricature pulsated no more4 ,he was ludicrously incompetent for the task of satirising the forward movement of women3 the ,almanacks show that1 if their evidence be required4 ,the subjects of ,queen ,victoria found in ,keene and ,du ,maurier pictorial critics who1 by the implication of their veracity1 their success1 demonstrate his imperfect understanding of a generation to whom ,george the ,fourth was history and legend4 ,to the ironists of that generation there was something in the ,albert ,memorial more provocative than the --huge teapots all drill'd round with holes1 ,relieved by extinguishers1 sticking on poles which distinguished the ,folly at ,brighton4 ,it is too much to say that the art of the ,victorian epoch establishes this fact2 yet of what caricaturist can it be said as of ,cruikshank that his naif enthusiasm for all that an ,age rather than a ,queen signified by the ,albert ,memorial forced him into the role of its patron rather than its satirist8 ,in ,a ,pop ,gun 7#ahfj7 there is a pathetically feeble engraving1 after a drawing by ,cruikshank of ,prince ,albert and the late ,queen1 which almost brings tears to the eyes1 its insipidity is so loyally unconscious4 ,and what does all his marvellous needlework in the ,great ,exhibition novel entitled #ahea3 or ,the ,adventures of ,mr and ,mrs ,cursty ,sandboys1 accomplish for satire in comparison with what it accomplishes as a puff and a fanfare8 ,here1 as in the ,comet of his ill-fated ,magazine 7#ahed71 is a skill beside which his ,georgian caricatures are but a brat's defacement of his ,board ,school wall4 ,and yet what is the answer to our question8 ,nothing4 ,it is an answer that rings down the curtain on the diorama called ,cruikshank the journalist4 ,,iii ,cruikshank's didactic work was the offspring of his journalism4 ,no man can journalise with spirit and remain uncritical4 ,criticism is1 in truth1 the soul of caricature1 which by stressing the emphasis of ,nature on face and expression makes even simpletons judges of grandees4 ,photography itself is on the side of illusion2 but caricature has ,x-rays for the deformed fact4 ,that a habit of criticism should evolve a passion for preaching is only natural1 though it is the modern critic with his hedonistic bias who has armed the word didactic with a sting4 ,even such a critic must admit that ,cruikshank's preaching was from living texts and that the preacher seemed well versed in ,st ,giles's ,greek4 ,but before speaking specifically of his didactic drawing we will consider what led up to it4 ,a balladier of circa #ahaa threatens mankind as follows3-- ,since ,i have had some comic scenes1 ,egad6 ,i'll sing them all1 sir1 ,with my bow1 wow1 what a row6 fal lal de riddy1 riddy1 sparkey1 larkey1 funny1 dunny1 quizzy1 dizzy1 ,o4 ,this animal outburst breathes the spirit of all the bang up books of the last ,georgian period1 and might almost have served as a motto for ,pierce ,egan's ,life in ,london 7#ahba71 and ,david ,carey's ,life in ,paris 7#ahbb74 ,blanchard ,jerrold's bibliography of ,cruikshank begins with ,a ,dictionary of the ,slang and ,cant ,languages 7#ahji71 to which the artist contributes ,the ,beggars' ,carnival--a folding frontispiece4 ,in assisting his brother ,robert--who styled himself original suggester and artist of the #b vols4 containing ,life in ,london and its sequel--to illustrate the rambles and sprees of ,jerry ,hawthorn1 ,esq41 and his elegant friend ,corinthian ,tom1 ,george seems to have seen carnival on a more liberal scale4 ,life in ,london ranges from the ,westminster ,dog ,pit to ,rotten ,row1 and from the ,cyprian ,saloon of ,covent ,garden to the ,press ,yard of ,newgate4 ,one of the spirited plates 7,tom and ,jerry taking ,blue ,ruin7 powerfully presents some pitiable pothouse types1 and is a text1 though it is not a sermon4 ,another illustration1 reproduced here1 compares equally with ,dick and ,his ,companions ,smashing the ,glim in ,carey's work4 ,while illustrating ,life in ,paris1 ,george1 working alone1 pursued the example set by ,robert when they collaborated4 ,carey credits him with accuracy of local delineation--praise which he has often and variously deserved--yet it must be confessed that ,dick ,wildfire like ,corinthian ,tom is at once commonplace and out-of-date4 ,in face he is like ,george in early manhood as ,corinthian ,tom was like ,robert2 that is his chief recommendation4 ,the book may be silently offered to any one who asserts that ,george's taste in literature was too nice for ,pierce ,egan4 ,one of his plates turns a catacomb into a scene of vulgar mirth4 ,these novels of excess were stepping-stones to a sounder realism which we find in ,mornings at ,bow ,street 7#ahbd7 and ,more ,mornings at ,bow ,street 7#ahbg74 ,here the illustrator's task was to illustrate selected police cases1 and through the medium of wood engraving a most delectable entertainment was the result4 ,a choleric gentleman's row with a waiter presents itself as a fractured plate in the rim of which two tiny figures display respectively the extremes of napkined deprecation and of kicking impudence4 ,tom ,cribb's pursuit of a coppersmith suggests a wild elephant storming after a frenzy of flying limbs4 ,the genius that was to realise ,falstaff is disclosed in the drawing of a drummer boy discovered in a clothes basket4 ,did he come to ,bow ,street8 we ask1 and did those ,cupids fighting in the circuit of a wedding-ring come too8 ,the answer is ,yes1 but because of one who probably was not there1 whose name we know4 ,illustration3 ,tom1 ,getting the best of a ,charley4 ,from ,life in ,london1 by ,pierce ,egan1 #ahba4 ,at one illustration let us cry halt4 ,it represents a foaming pot of beer assaulting a woman who said to the magistrate1 ,your honour1 it was the beer4 ,in itself it is a masterpiece of delicate literalism4 ,that power of enlivening the inanimate1 which humanises the pump1 representing ,father ,mathew at a small party in ,the ,comic ,almanack of #ahdd1 exasperates this pot and bids it strike home4 ,but what we are to observe particularly is this early presentation to ,cruikshank's mind of alcohol as a personality at war with human beings4 ,as far back as #ahaa1 in ,the ,dinner of the ,four-in-,hand ,club at ,salthill1 an uproarious piece in the style of ,rowlandson's ,the ,brilliants 7#ahja71 he put the genius of the bottle into form and anecdote1 but here we have the serious aspect of drink obvious even in humour4 ,beer is striking a woman4 ,in #ahcb he produced in ,the ,ale ,house and the ,home a contrast so stated in the title that we need say no more than that the gloomy wife and her baby1 sitting by candlelight in the bare room where the man's supper lies to reproach his drink-spoiled appetite1 are a sadder sight than the frying-pan of ,st ,bartholomew's ,fair in the number of ,scraps and ,sketches where they appear4 ,to ,sunday in ,london 7#ahcc7--;a capital social satire--,cruikshank contributed fourteen cuts1 one of which1 ,the ,pay-,table1 preserves the memory of those mischievous contracts between publican and foreman1 whereby the latter received a percentage of the spendings of his men on drink and the men were provided with drink on the credit of the foreman4 ,it is an admirable study in fuddled perplexity confronted with ,bung in a business instead of a ,bacchic mood1 abetted by a shark of the victim's calling4 ,two other cuts--mere rabblement and eyesore--leave on the mind a feeling of disgust almost without interest and without shame4 ,the spectator has no sense that these people turned out at church time1 raging1 leering1 tottering1 have deteriorated from any average or standard of human seemliness4 ,if it were not for a dog gazing in amazement at one prone drunkard1 if it were not for the dog and his question1 one would ask1 ,cui bono8 ,this is not missionary work--,cruikshank was only flirting with temperance as late as #ahdf--;and we need have no compunction in seeking relief from such ugliness in the exquisite burlesque of pathos contained in ,over-head and ,under-foot 7#ahdb74 ,forget who can the agonised impatience bolted and ,chubb-locked in the breast of that lonely bachelor1 but expressed in his folded arms and upturned face4 ,illustration3 ,,over-,,head ,,and ,,under-,,foot4 ,from ,the ,comic ,almanack1 #ahdb4 #ahdb1 which saw that1 also saw ,john ,o',neill's poem ,the ,drunkard1 and especially ,the ,raving ,maniac and the ,driv'ling ,fool1 one of four etchings by ,cruikshank which illustrate it4 ,an anonymous writer1 in an article for an #ahgf reprint of the etchings1 says that these two figures are the most forcible ever drawn by the artist's pencil4 ,this opinion is unjust to the force of ,cruikshank's comic figures1 and to that terrible pair1 ,fagin in the condemned cell and ,underhill bawling at the stake1 but the force of the etching thus praised is extraordinary4 ,with parted blubber lips and knees relaxed1 his nerveless left hand dangling at the wrist like a dead white leaf1 his right hand grasping the gin-glass1 the fool1 unconscious of tragedy1 faces the maniac who streams upon the air sleeves that much exceed the length of his homicidal arms4 ,by reason of the delicacy of the etching which conveys these haunting figures1 they excite pleasure before horror1 and always in horror a little pleasure too4 ,we now come to the famous series entitled ,the ,bottle 7#ahdg7 and its sequel ,the ,drunkard's ,children 7#ahdh74 ,both these works were printed from glyphographic blocks and have as little charm as a stentorian oration in a small chapel4 ,the story they tell1 told also in verse by ,dr ,charles ,mackay1 is the ruin of a working man and his family through drink4 ,the appeal of ,the ,bottle is simple enough to appal the aborigines of ,africa1 to say nothing of the ,east ,end3 the bottle is a ,ju-ju1 an evil fetish2 the impulse of the beholder is to smash the bottle rather than to spill and waste its contents4 ,yet when the eye succeeds in detaching itself from this pompously evident bottle1 it perceives that the artist has cared also for details less immediate1 but of a finer eloquence4 ,the liberally filled mantelshelf of plate #a is at least not a mere labour of memory1 though no one exceeds ,george ,cruikshank in the pictorial multiplication of domestic details4 ,this mantelshelf is a symbol2 symbols1 too1 are the open cupboard1 so well furnished that a less industrious artist would have shut it1 and the ill-drawn but well-nourished felinity by the fire4 ,in plate #b the cupboard holds naught but two jugs2 the lean cat prowls over the bare table2 an ornament on the mantelshelf lies on its side4 ,had an artist and not a missionary composed plate #c1 we might have been spared the indecency of a bottle in ,lucy's lap when the furniture is distrained to pay the bottle's debt4 ,yet with what horrid strength does the maniac in plate #g clutch the mantelpiece1 whose bare ledge is lit by a dip stuck in a bottle1 while all the neighbours stare at something whose face we cannot see6 ,the artist has shouted till he was hoarse1 but his story is in our marrows4 ,the ,drunkard's ,children contains one masterpiece3 plate #g1 the boy's death on the convict-ship4 ,the convict who closes his eyes has the sagacity of a sentient corpse2 the shadow he casts on the screen which two convicts draw around the bed is1 in effect1 a creature to startle us1 and the visible half of the chaplain's top-hat lying on a bench in a corner of the drawing is an irony which seems to belong to a later age than ,cruikshank's4 ,the ,bottle1 employed as an argument by ,mr ,william ,cash1 converted ,cruikshank to teetotalism4 ,the result has been to present the artist to modern hedonists in the light of a ludicrous bore4 ,certain it is that in his version of ,cinderella 7#ahed7 he causes the dwarf to inform the ,king that the history of the use of strong drinks is marked on every page by excess which follows1 as a matter of course1 from the very nature of their composition1 the italics being ,cruikshank's1 though they might well be mine4 ,teetotalism needs talking and writing1 and ,cruikshank was happy to oblige4 ,he possessed a fluent pen1 and delivered lay sermons with enthusiasm and originality4 ,illustration3 7a7 ,,the ,,glass ,,of ,,whiskey ,,after ,,the ,,goose4 ,from ,the ,glass and the ,new ,crystal ,palace1 #ahec4 ,illustration3 7b7 ,,the ,,goose ,,after ,,the ,,whiskey4 ,from ,the ,glass and the ,new ,crystal ,palace1 #ahec4 ,about four years after his abandonment of alcohol1 ,cruikshank began to figure as a pamphleteer4 ,in #ahea appeared his ,stop ,thief--containing hints for the prevention of housebreaking1 hallmarked by teetotalism3 it has a drawing of a burglar retiring because his companion discloses a board containing the words1 ,no ,admittance ,except ,on ,business4 ,in #aheb came the ,betting ,book1 against both drink and betting2 this has a drawing of two wonderfully knowing fox-faced bipeds contemplating a row of geese absorbed in the perusal of the betting lists4 ,followed ,the ,glass and the ,new ,crystal ,palace 7#ahec71 in which1 after confessing that he clung to that contemptible1 stupid and dirty habit of smoking three years after he had left off wine and beer1 he adds1 at last ,i laid down my meerschaum pipe and said1 ',lie you there6 and ,i will never take you up again1' ,the drawings of anserine flight and intoxication here reproduced compel us to admit that the cerebral compartment containing ,cruikshank's sense of humour was watertight4 ,in #ahed came ,george ,cruikshank's ,magazine4 ,it lived long enough for him to inveigh against tobacco through the medium of a rather lifeless etching entitled ,tobacco ,leaves ,no4 #a2 and he died before he could publish in it certain drawings1 included1 ,i believe1 in a series given to the world in #ahie by ,sir ,b4 ,w4 ,richardson1 which ridicule the hideous1 abominable1 and most dangerous custom of sucking the handles of sticks and umbrellas4 ,to the didactic excesses of his ,fairy ,library ,i need not further refer1 but in #ahef came a quasi-temperance pamphlet1 ,the ,bands in the ,parks1 where the devil plays the violin with his tail2 in #aheg1 ,a ,slice of ,bread and ,butter 7re-issued with prefatory ,remarks in #ahgj71 a good-humoured satire on conflicting views of charity towards waifs2 in #ahfj1 ,a ,pop-,gun 444 in ,defence of the ,british ,volunteers of #ahjc2 in #ahfc1 ,a ,discovery concerning ,ghosts1 in which he claimed to be the only one who ever thought of the gross absurdity 444 of there being such things as ghosts of wearing apparel1 iron armour1 walking sticks1 and shovels2 and here we have a mild and pleasant hint of the inspissated egoism which dictated ,the ,artist and the ,author 7#ahgb71 the work in which ,cruikshank asserted himself to be the originator of ,oliver ,twist1 ,the ,miser's ,daughter and ,the ,tower of ,london4 ,this unfortunate but characteristic pamphlet is the last of the series that seems to have been called into existence by the insanabile scribendi cacoethes induced by his fame as a teetotaler4 ,i said characteristic1 because a jealous dislike of seeing his individuality merged into1 overshadowed by1 or confounded with any other is apparent not only in #ahgb1 but in #ahcd1 when he carefully named in ,my ,sketch ,book his brother ,robert's works1 and pictured himself as lifting off the ground1 by tongs applied to the nose1 their publisher ,kidd1 for whom he is anxious to state he only illustrated ,the ,gentleman in ,black 7#ahca74 ,moreover in #ahfj he misused his ,pop-,gun to picture another publisher1 who advertised his nephew ,percy as ,cruikshank tout court1 as a sandwich-man similarly assaulted by him2 yet by some freak of humour or affection the very excellent1 industrious1 worthy good fellow ,percy1 over whom ,i throw the embroidery of his uncle's praise1 bestowed the name of ,george upon his son1 as if for the confusion of bibliographers1 and the evocation of a spirit armed with the ghosts of tongs4 ,indeed the gods themselves seem to have sported with ,george ,cruikshank's name1 for ,dr ,nagler1 having read that the real ,simon ,pure was ,george ,cruikshank1 wrote thus in his ,neues allgemeines ,kuenstler-,lexicon 7#ahdb73 ,pure ,simon1 der eigentliche ,name des beruhmten ,carikaturzeichners ,georg sic ,cruikshank4 ,simon ,pure shall save us from digression by leading us to a didactic work by ,cruikshank of which ,mrs ,centlivre's quaking preacher would have heartily approved4 ,this work is the oil-painting entitled ,the ,worship of ,bacchus 7#ahfb74 ,it is an old man's athletic miracle1 being a picture thirteen feet four by seven feet eight1 of which there exists an etching by the same hand of less1 though formidable size1 which was published ,june #bj1 #ahfd4 ,the oil-painting was presented to the nation by ,cruikshank's friends and conveyed to its destination ,april #h1 #ahfi4 ,cruikshank drew a fancy sketch of his mammoth on that great day of its life4 ,little did he imagine what the cognoscenti of the twentieth century would think of it4 ,i saw it in #aijb2 visited it much as one visits an incarcerated friend1 following a learned official with jingling keys to a dungeon under the show-rooms of the ,national ,gallery4 ,it was alone1 was convict #die1 alone and dingy4 ,many phrases have been found for this picture4 ,john ,stewart said that it contains all the elemental types of pictorial grouping1 generalised on the two axioms of balance and variety4 ,another critic said that it is not even a picture1 but a multitude of pictures and bits of pictures crowded together in one huge mass of confusion and puzzle4 ,cruikshank himself said1 speaking ,august #bh1 #ahfb1 ,i have not the vanity to call it a picture4444 ,i painted it with a view that a lecturer might use it as so many diagrams4 ,however he felt1 ,cruikshank spoke correctly4 ,painted in low relief1 the oil-painting presents his intention less satisfactorily than his etching of the same subject4 ,whatever its demerit1 the work is extremely ,cruikshankian4 ,robert and ,george ,cruikshank1 in the ,corinthian ,capital of ,life in ,london1 patched up a similarly artificial fabric4 ,george1 in a work that should not be mentioned in the same breath--,the ,triumph of ,cupid 7#ahde7--;evokes innumerable amatory incidents by means of the tobacco which he renounced so contumeliously4 ,we have in ,the ,worship of ,bacchus1 the result of a method equally naif and ingenious4 ,the root idea is materialised in conjunction with a myriad of associative ideas1 and the picture is worse than a confusion2 it is a ghastly and ostentatious pattern at which one can neither laugh nor cry4 ,it is the work of a big accomplished child1 whose ambition to be grown up has destroyed his charm4 ,at the summit of the picture ,bacchus and ,silenus wave wine-glasses while respectively standing and sitting on hogsheads4 ,in the middle of the design is a stone ornamented with death's-heads1 on which a drunkard waves a glass and bottle in front of the god and demi-god4 ,the stone has an inscription tributary to the drunkard's victims4 ,on the left side of the throne of ,bacchus are a distillery1 reformatory1 etc42 on the right is a ,house of ,correction1 ,magdalen ,hospital1 etc4 ,in short1 the picture is a pictorial chrestomathy of drink4 ,that it has converted people1 that it has even won the tribute of a man's tears1 is not surprising1 for it is1 or was1 full of truthful suggestion seizable by the mind's eye4 ,but it is not beautiful4 ,thackeray might call it most wonderful and labyrinthine2 it is ugly and ill painted1 for ,cruikshank was no ,hogarth with the brush4 ,so it lay1 and perhaps yet lies in its dungeon1 and overhead ,silenus still triumphs divinely drunk on ,rubens's canvas2 and ,bacchus1 ardent for ,ariadne1 leaps from his chariot in that masterpiece of ,titian1 which ,sir ,edward ,poynter believes is possibly the finest picture in the world4 ,poussin's ,bacchanalian festivities are still for the mirth of a world whence ,bacchus has fled2 but the god enthroned on hogsheads is not mistaken for ,bacchus now3 ,bacchus was stronger than ,cruikshank4 ,the whole deathless pagan world of beauty and laughter is by him made rosier and more silvery4 ,cruikshank never drew him2 the god he drew was ,bung in masquerade4 ,i was at ,sotheby's on ,may #bb1 #aijc1 when the ,royal ,aquarium copy of the etching of ,the ,worship of ,bacchus was sold4 ,it evoked a sneer of wall paper2 and if etchings could think1 it would have envied the seclusion in which ,i found its brother in oils4 ,but at least it was not given to the nation4 ,the fact that the ,national ,gallery should possess ,cruikshank's colossal failure instead of his ,fairy ,ring1 instead of any etching from ,grimm or ,points of ,humour1 is an accusation against common sense and a triumph of irony4 ,let it be remembered1 however1 that ,cruikshank's exposure of ebriety from #ahbi to #ahge1 the date which ,john ,pearce in ,house and ,home assigns to his last temperance piece1 deserved at times the notice of fame4 ,matthew ,arnold1 denying the power of breathless glades1 cheer'd by shy ,dian's horn to calm the spectator of ,the ,bottle1 showed more than his ignorance of ,diana and her peace4 ,he showed that ,cruikshank the preacher was a magician too4 ,,iv ,the best part of ,cruikshank's service to ,fact has yet to be considered4 ,we have seen how he journalised and exhorted2 we have still to see the talent he poured into journalism and exhortation refined by his historical sense and expressing itself in shapes of treasurable beauty4 ,the historical sense in art may be liberally defined as an aesthetic impulse to fix the vanishing and recover the vanished fact4 ,it may be absent at the birth of a cartoon filled with political portraits and it may have urged the reproduction of a quiet landscape with nothing more human in it than a few trees or a line of surf4 ,it operates without pressure of topicality and it is stronger than the tyranny of humour4 ,the reader1 searching for the earliest examples of ,cruikshank's historical imagination to be found in the books which he illustrated1 would first of all alight on ,the ,annals of ,gallantry1 by ,dr ,a4 ,moore 7#ahad-ae71 and ,an ,historical ,account of the ,campaign in the ,netherlands in #ahae1 by ,william ,mudford 7#ahag74 ,suspecting the grotesque1 he would nevertheless also examine the thirty plates to the ,hudibrastic ,life of ,napoleon 7#ahae7 by ,dr ,syntax4 ,as to the ,annals1 one may unreluctantly condemn the whole series of plates after a glance at the feeble scratches which disfigure the amours of ,lady ,grosvenor and the ,duke of ,cumberland1 and the elopement of ,lady ,w---- with ,lord ,paget4 ,in ,mudford's ungenerous history1 ,cruikshank's frontispiece1 engraved by ,rouse 7as are his other contributions71 has the stiff integrity of portraiture to be expected from a repressed caricaturist2 ,napoleon in flight on his white horse in another plate does not even support the comparison of his horsemanship to a sack of flour's2 the ribbon-like plate of ,waterloo1 full of microscopic figures1 has the chastened spirit natural to a work done under the inspection of officers who were present at that memorable conflict4 ,the illustrations to ,dr ,syntax's ,hudibrastic poem on ,napoleon have some originality to recommend them as a starting-point for the student of ,cruikshank as a delineator of historical subjects4 ,they are etchings1 broad as the typed surface of an octavo page is long1 and include the ,red ,man derided on page #ba4 ,but the artist already shows that he has fancy as well as satire at his command4 ,witness the illusion created by the sleeping ,napoleon lifting the coat on his bed in humping the counterpane with perpendicular toes1 an effect which was remembered in ,cruikshank's ,ideality 7,phrenological ,illustrations1 #ahbf74 ,there is humour1 too1 in the etching which represents one of ,napoleon's grenadiers mounted on a stool in order to look as terrible as his companions4 ,though a rancorous prejudice makes ,napoleon stand on a cross in one plate and his apothecary smile at poisoning the sick at ,jaffa in another1 there is sympathy in a third which depicts him nursing the ,king of ,rome1 and the eccentricities of ,cruikshank's journalistic style are happily absent4 ,we may now pause at the four famous volumes of ,the ,humourist 7#ahai-bj74 ,they contain1 inter alia1 a portrait of ,alfieri--a fine figure of silent disdain--in the act of sweeping to the floor the tea service of a badly drawn ,princess1 who was tactless enough to wish he had broken the whole set instead of one cup4 ,the table leg is a satyr's surmounted by the ,mephistophelian head considered appropriate to the companions of ,pan2 above the main design are the implements of a writer2 below it are two porcelain mandarins yoked to a three-headed and triply derisive bust4 ,another historical subject in ,the ,humourist is ,daniel ,lambert1 to whom a bear once doffed his hat4 ,ursine politeness and the petrified majesty of fat ,lambert fill the foreground of the etching2 behind is a rout of people frightfully interested in another bear4 ,in the former of these etchings the hint is better than the performance2 the latter hints nothing and performs a little admirably4 #ahbc-d is a period to which we owe some historical etchings of consummate skill4 ,they illustrated ,points of ,humour1 a work in two parts which was expressly designed to afford scope for ,cruikshank's power of rendering ludicrous situations4 ,the artist was on his mettle1 and his twenty etchings for this collection of anecdotes are among the immortal children of ,momus4 ,among his simpler designs is the scene in the apartment of ,frederick the ,great when his heir presumptive demanded if the monarch would return his shuttlecock4 ,the required studies of childish impudence and royal amusement are perfect4 ,more elaborate1 but equally successful1 is the drawing of the voracious boor1 the ill-natured general whom he offered to eat1 and the ,king of ,sweden who enjoyed the spectacle of their emotions4 ,the boor with the hog on a plate under his arm1 his terrible teeth a-glitter for hog and general1 is more alarming than the ogre in ,cruikshank's ,hop-o'-my-,thumb2 he tacitly affirms his creator's power to confer delicious terrors on the nursery4 ,flying ,konigsmark's fear of pointing hand and barrack-like paunch mingles exquisitely with the hatred of his backward glance1 and ,charles ,gustavus smiles with unpardonable aplomb4 ,the etching is a comic masterpiece4 ,after this there is no advance in ,cruikshank's comic treatment of history1 for his quite simple rendering1 more than ten years later1 ,miscellany 7#ahch71 of a freak of absent-mindedness on the part of ,sir ,isaac ,newton in ,bentley's1 is of merely sufficient merit4 ,illustration3 ,,turpin',s ,,flight ,,through ,,edmonton4 ,from ,rookwood1 #ahcf4 ,the ,ainsworth-,cruikshank connection began1 artistically1 with the etchings which illustrate the fourth edition of ,rookwood 7#ahcf74 ,if for ,turpin we read ,nevison1 the novel may pass as quasi-historical4 ,the etching here reproduced is in what may be called ,cruikshank's ,humourist style4 ,it has vivacity and brightness4 ,the reader who figured himself passing into romance through the pretty portico of trees depicted on ,ainsworth's title-page1 will feel1 as he looks at this representation of comic prodigy1 that he has arrived4 ,one thief succeeded another1 and in #ahci ,jack ,sheppard was pilfering his way through ,bentley's ,miscellany4 ,if he had done nothing else1 ,cruikshank would have made a deathless reputation for technical skill by the etchings in ,jack ,sheppard4 ,sala1 who copied the shop-scene entitled ,the name on the beam1 observes of this etching1 at once so precise and imaginative1 that it is in its every detail essentially ,hogarthian4 ,it is a just saying4 ,one can easily imagine ,dr ,trusler poring over it and recording his small discoveries with something of the relish he found in his ,hogarthian exploration4 ,appropriately enough1 ,hogarth's portrait appears in the clever etching which depicts ,jack in chains sitting to two artists1 the other being ,sir ,james ,thornhill4 ,thackeray has done justice to the high qualities of the etchings entitled ,the ,storm and ,the ,murder on the ,thames4 ,there are effects in ,cruikshank's river scenes poetic enough and near enough to that verity which ,impressionists serve better than ,ruskinians1 to have detained ,whistler for a minute that might have regenerated the fame of ,cruikshank4 ,illustration3 ,,jonathan ,,wild ,,seizing ,,jack ,,sheppard ,,at ,,his ,,mother',s ,,grave ,,in ,,willesden ,,churchyard4 ,from ,jack ,sheppard1 #ahci4 ,illustration3 ,from ,jack ,sheppard1 #ahci4 ,jack ,sheppard1 with its requisition of antiquarian exactness so plausibly met1 may well have suggested to ,cruikshank a more epic theme than the exploits of a master-thief1 revolving about a nobler gaol than ,newgate4 ,in a letter which may or may not have been posted 7it is to be read at the back of ,no4 #iiaj ,h in the ,cruikshank collection at ,south ,kensington71 he writes3 ,the fact is1 ,i am endeavouring to emancipate myself from the thraldom of the ,booksellers1 whose slave ,i have been nearly all my life2 to effect this object ,i have published1 in conjunction with the author1 a work called ',the ,tower of ,london4' ,illustration3 ,,the ,,death ,,warrant4 ,from ,the ,tower of ,london1 #ahdj4 ,of the acrimonious discussion that ,cruikshank started by claiming to have originated ,ainsworth's romance1 ,i shall say little4 ,that ,cruikshank was the senior partner there is no doubt4 ,it was he who took ,ainsworth to the ,tower1 and he asserted that he hardly ever read a line of the text1 which must be considered to illustrate his designs4 ,it may be said1 however1 that ,ainsworth's text has been repeatedly devoured without the aid of ,cruikshank's designs4 ,he was a public idol4 ,smiled on once by ,sir ,walter ,scott1 he contrived to become the first horror-monger1 via history1 of an age whose favourite realism was the safe realism of torture and decent crime4 ,in the ,september before his death1 which occurred ,january #c1 #ahhb1 he was informed by the ,mayor of ,manchester that the last twelve months' record of the public free libraries of that town showed that twenty volumes of his works were being perused in ,manchester by readers of the free libraries every day all the year through4 ,that ,i may not write a decrescendo about the designs for ,the ,tower of ,london1 ,i begin with their faults4 ,cruikshank's ,simon ,renard is too darkling a ,spaniard even for a staged ,spain1 and even ,lady ,jane ,grey's waist should have been made rather larger than her throat4 ,mere skeletons in farthingales1 quoth ,the ,athenaeum of ,cruikshank's ,queen ,mary1 ,jane and ,elizabeth4 ,to what extent defective figure-drawing diminishes the proper force of ,cruikshank's designs the reader may judge by the reproduction of ,the ,death ,warrant1 which is presented as a frank example of his melodramatic invention4 ,the masked assassin peers at the ,spanish ,ambassador through the window of the chamber of the ,tower where the little princes were murdered1 and where the pen that has just doomed ,lady ,jane ,dudley hovers in ,queen ,mary's hand4 ,her hound is an incarnate presentiment and the gods of old ,drury could have asked no more4 ,there are1 however1 far finer plates in the book4 ,in ,underhill1 the ,hot ,gospeller1 burning at the stake1 his finger nails riveted to his bare shoulders while he bawls his last agony1 ,cruikshank shows the longevity of the ,marian crime--the crime of creating fears and loathings1 for here we have absolutely a reflective shudder1 a naked confidence from an abominable place which we thought was cleansed by merciful years4 ,no other figure in the gallery of ,cruikshank's ,tower is so vital as this dying man1 but he drew a handsome ,wyat1 an executioner as repulsive as a ghoul1 and groups--for instance ,elizabeth and her escort on the steps of ,traitor's ,gate--which a stage manager of melodrama might like to imitate4 ,partly contemporaneous with ,the ,tower of ,london was ,ainsworth's ,guy ,fawkes 7#ahdj-a7 with ,cruikshankian etchings1 which are as little serviceable to the dignity of a brave fanatic as the effigies exhibited by boys on the fifth of ,november4 ,cruikshank had drawn a typical effigy of ,guy for ,the ,every-,day ,book of #ahbf2 twelve years later came his ludicrous ,guys in ,council1 but being required in #ahdj to produce a serious ,guy he only succeeded in being operatic4 ,in one of his etchings the rigidity of ,guy's cloak suggests that the garment is a bath-cabinet in occupation2 in another a celestial visitor resembles a ,dutch doll4 ,such failures are not to be explained by a desire to annoy the publisher of ,guy ,fawkes1 ,richard ,bentley1 whom ,cruikshank bitterly attacked in #ahdb4 ,cruikshank could and did produce etchings in a hurry for stories which he had not read1 by way of expressing his dislike for a contract which survived his approval of it2 but he could also be befooled by his own solemnity4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,duel ,,in ,,tothill ,,fields 7,the ,miser's ,daughter74 ,from ,ainsworth's ,magazine1 #ahdb4 ,cruikshank's relations with ,ainsworth continued in ,ainsworth's ,magazine1 of which the first number bears the date ,february #ahdb4 ,among the stories in this magazine which ,cruikshank illustrated must now be mentioned ,the ,miser's ,daughter 7#ahdb71 ,windsor ,castle 7#ahdb-c7 and ,st ,james's3 or the ,court of ,queen ,anne 7#ahdd74 ,the first of these stories is only incidentally historical1 but it afforded ,cruikshank an opportunity for quickening his hand with the spirit of place4 ,he has told us that his drawing of ,westminster ,abbey ,cloisters and ,lambeth ,church1 etc41 are correct copies from nature sic1 and it almost seems as we look at his etchings and water-colours for ,the ,miser's ,daughter that he copied not only stones but living scenes4 ,his ball in the ,rotunda at ,ranelagh has the charm of lavish light and dainty gaiety2 the humour and grace of his ,masquerade in ,ranelagh ,gardens are too obvious for discovery1 and his rendering of the pursuit of a ,jacobite ,club on the roofs of houses within view of ,westminster ,abbey is a striking nocturne4 ,in ,cruikshank's designs for ,windsor ,castle1 ,mr ,julian ,moore finds the minimum of charm and freshness in the drawing1 and maximum of achievement in technique4 ,i am in disagreement with this verdict1 but it is not unintelligent4 ,cruikshank's machine-ruling is tyrannous to his ,ainsworthian work1 and an artist serving the historic muse when she is very much in earnest can only pray to be academic when he is not inspired4 ,but ,cruikshank did admirable work for ,windsor ,castle1 and could hardly help wishing to outshine ,tony ,johannot1 who was also employed in illustrating that romance4 ,since the great ,george is not present to assail me in a vehement script1 ,i may say that ,i discern an influence of ,johannot upon ,cruikshank's design 7spirited but not insufferably vigorous7 entitled ,the ,quarrel between ,will ,sommers and ,patch1 for there was something called artistic restraint to be learned from the ,french illustrator of ,cervantes1 and this quality is in the etching ,i have mentioned1 and not negatively there but as a positive gift of touch4 ,of ,cruikshank's ,henry the ,eighth1 it need only be said that he is bluff ,king ,hal2 his ,anne ,boleyn and ,jane ,seymour are mere females3 his ,herne is as impressive as a person can be who jeopardises the dignity of demonhood by wearing horns4 ,st ,james's1 the last important novel by ,ainsworth which ,cruikshank illustrated1 gave the artist opportunities for drawing ,st ,james's ,palace1 ,london1 and portraits of the ,duke of ,marlborough and other celebrities4 ,he accepted these opportunities1 but his most striking designs remind one of his illustrations for ,smollett4 ,he rejoices in the contrast between masculine lath and feminine tub1 and in one plate afflicts us with a grinning face which exceeds in ugliness any of ,c4 ,delort's portraits of l',homme qui rit4 ,the vigorous design here given touches the imagination on account of the absent presence of the dame in the picture hanging on the wall4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,marquis ,,de ,,guiscard ,,attempting ,,to ,,assassinate ,,harley4 ,the man on the table drawing his sword is the ,duke of ,newcastle 7,saint ,james's74 ,from ,ainsworth's ,magazine1 #ahdd4 ,in ,ainsworth's ,magazine for ,january #ahdf the last fruit of ,cruikshank's connection with ,ainsworth appeared1 after a year's sterility1 as a careful etching illustrating that novelist's ,sir ,lionel ,flamstead1 a ,sketch3 in the preceding year ,cruikshank produced for ,w4 ,h4 ,maxwell the series of historic etchings which1 in the opinion of ,mr ,frederic ,g4 ,stephens1 marks the highest point of ,cruikshank's invention4 ,these etchings illustrate a history of the insurrections in ,ireland in #agih and #ahjc4 ,in the selection of ,cruikshank1 ,maxwell or his publishers may have remembered the skill with which he had illustrated ,i4 ,whitty's ,tales of ,irish ,life 7#ahbd71 though it is one thing to render the frantic humour of a fight arising from ,o',finn calling ,redmond a rascal1 or the muddled emotions of a wake1 and quite another to exhibit the conflict between two nightmares of patriotism4 ,howbeit ,cruikshank realised the horror and poetry of war4 ,his twenty-one ,maxwellian etchings are instructively comparable with ,callot's precious series ,les ,miseres et les ,mal-heurs de la ,guerre 7#afcc74 ,callot is at once more horrible and self-restrained4 ,one peers into his work2 one listens to ,cruikshank's4 ,the artist of the seventeenth century drew with minute delicacy the forms and gestures of men4 ,he studied them as a naturalist1 indifferent to the individuality of the unit after fixing the individuality of the class to which it belongs4 ,callot's men are users of the wheel and the estrapade2 they roast the husband while they ravish the wife4 ,they are not grotesques3 they are men4 ,maurice ,leloir drew men of their age and country no more elegantly for the bravest novel of ,dumas4 ,cruikshank1 on the other hand1 drew well and hideously not only ,irish men1 but ,irish individuals4 ,his rebel1 obscenely jocose1 impaling a child1 might1 though a detail in a crowded etching1 have been drawn for ,scotland ,yard2 so too might a woman squatting and smoking while a wretch writhes on four pikes which take his weight and give it him back in torture4 ,england is to glow1 ,ireland is to blush as she looks at ,cruikshank's people of '#ih4 ,as clear on the memory as his ,irish ruffianism is his portrait of the little drummer dying with his leg through his drum to protect its voice from dishonour4 ,one has heard of ,lieutenant ,hepenstall--him who was called ,the ,walking ,gallows--as well as of the drummer of ,gorey1 but ,cruikshank was satisfied with partizanship1 and ,ireland forgets him4 ,our liberal interpretation of history allows us now to consider a few of the works of ,cruikshank which preserve for us scenes and types of his age with or without the accompaniment of a fictitious text4 ,for his delineations of the sailor of ,nelson's day we owe much to a capital but neglected novelist ,m4 ,h4 ,barker1 author of ,greenwich ,hospital 7#ahbf71 ,topsail-,sheet ,blocks 7#ahch71 ,the ,old ,sailor's ,jolly ,boat 7#ahdd71 etc4 ,before the appearance of the earliest of these books ,cruikshank had etched ,lieut4 ,john ,sheringham's designs entitled ,the ,sailor's ,progress 7#ahah71 and those by ,capt4 ,marryat entitled ,the ,progress of a ,midshipman 7#ahbj74 ,the illustrations to the quarto called ,greenwich ,hospital1 are deservedly the most famous of ,cruikshank's sea-pictures4 ,with lavish detail they exhibit ,jack tearing along by coach across pigs and fowls at finable knots per hour2 carousing in the ,long ,room with billowy sirens under a chandelier of candles2 crossing the line in a frenzy of ceremonious facetiousness2 yelling in an inn-parlour--though armless or half a tree--his delight in victory and ,nelson2 444 and tied up for a whipping like a naughty boy4 ,barker was so pleased with one of the illustrations for ,greenwich ,hospital that he wrote on a proof 7,no4 #ajjc-d in the ,cruikshank collection at ,south ,kensington71 ,dear ,friend1 if you never do another design1 the leg of that table will immortalise you4 ,it is a bona fide ,peg4 ,there is a mood in which ,clio prefers that crippled table-leg to ,cruikshank's idea of ,solomon ,eagle denouncing of ,judgment upon ,london4 ,illustration3 ,,solomon ,,eagle4 ,from the drawing by ,g4 ,cruikshank1 as engraved by ,davenport for ,a ,journal of the ,plague ,year1 #ahcc4 ,we have now sounded the word which invites inquiry as to the nature of ,cruikshank's artistic service to ,london4 ,london is not the ,tower or ,st ,james's ,palace4 ,cruikshank1 however1 is not injured by this scorching truism4 ,if we go back to #ahbg and #ahbi we encounter in ,the ,gentleman's ,pocket ,magazine twenty-four ,london ,characters1 of which fifteen are from the hand of ,george ,cruikshank1 who doubtless remembered ,rowlandson's ,characteristic ,sketches of the ,lower ,orders 7#ahbj74 ,george is responsible for very neat portraits of a beadle1 waterman1 dustman1 watchman 4441 and the ,cruikshankian enthusiast cries ,eureka6 for he spies ,mr ,bumble among them4 ,with ,sunday in ,london 7#ahcc7 came the first example of ,cruikshank's comic treatment of ,london1 which a book-collector1 as distinct from a print-collector1 can prize4 ,the woodcuts in this volume reveal a state of society in which people had less sense of proportion than they have now1 and were excessively vain or excessively humble1 according to the state of their paunch and the view of them held by the policeman or the beadle4 ,the power of the beadle had not yet been broken by a metrical inquiry concerning the origin of his hat4 ,frenchmen were still mounseers1 and soldiers marched to ,divine ,service through ,st ,james's ,park to the tune of ,drops of ,brandy4 ,the flavour of the obsolete is rich in ,sunday in ,london2 we who look at it feel strangely toned-down4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,streets1 ,,morning4 ,from ,sketches by ,boz1 ,second ,series1 #ahcg4 ,place in ,london as well as character is presented vividly in ,cruikshank's contributions to ,sketches by ,boz 7#ahcf-g74 ,witness the examples here given4 ,in ,the ,streets1 ,morning1 ,i1 a ,londoner1 feel the poetry of streets cleansed by quiet1 the chastity of ,comfort enjoyed1 as it were1 by the tolerance of ,hardship4 ,the little sweep is an extinct animal1 and yet we are in the neighbourhood of ,seven ,dials4 ,monmouth ,street1 as exhibited by ,cruikshank in the same work1 is an appreciation of the ,hebrew dealer in old clothes as well as a caricature4 ,we feel the street to be an open-air parlour and nursery combined2 it remains imperturbably domestic though we walk in it4 ,another etching1 depicting a beadle hammering the door of a house supposed to be on fire1 elicited from ,mr ,frederick ,wedmore the confession that he knew no artist so alive as ,cruikshank to the pretty sedateness of ,georgian architecture1 though the remark will be more appreciated after a look at the pretty etching entitled ,french ,musicians or ,les ,savoyards 7#ahai71 reprinted in ,cruikshankiana 7#ahce74 ,cruikshank's ,london ideas were further realised in ,oliver ,twist 7#ahch71 a novel to which he contributed etchings so documentary as well as imaginative that he attempted to deprive ,dickens of the glory of authorship1 by claiming the origination of the story4 ,the fact was1 he had grown to be a collector3 he was collecting fame1 and in the passion of his hobby he felt that he might claim to have originated the novel which owed local colour and a formative idea to his suggestions4 ,the subject really belongs to the pathology of egoism4 ,cruikshank gained nothing by seeking laurels in the field of literature except the impression on paper of a weakness one prefers to call juvenile rather than puerile4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,last ,,cab-,,driver4 ,from ,sketches by ,boz1 ,second ,series1 #ahcg4 ,yet he had much to give ,boz1 if that gentleman was minded to write of rogues4 ,cruikshank knew all about ,buzmen and ,adam-tilers2 the days when he drank bene bowse had not been wasted1 if low life be worth depicting4 ,we may accept as portraits his ,fagin and ,sikes and ,artful ,dodger1 without digesting the statement that ,fagin condemned is himself in perplexity1 and ,fagin uncondemned the image of ,sir ,charles ,napier4 ,undoubtedly1 the workhouses in ,england of the third decade of the nineteenth century are in popular fancy all ruled by the nameless master in cook's uniform1 of whom ,oliver asked more1 but it is not ,boz's master1 it is ,cruikshank's4 ,all beadles are one ,mr ,bumble--the ,bumble of ,boz and ,cruikshank1 though without the shadow of the sack with which the novelist eclipsed him4 ,the etched scene where ,fagin1 frying sausages1 receives ,oliver in a den of thieves1 has a squalid comfortableness--a leering charity--which praises ,hell4 ,the etched scene of ,sikes's desperation on the roof of a house in ,jacob's ,island1 ,bermondsey1 is in essence ,misery itself1 vermicular as well as violent4 ,the etched scene where ,fagin sits with blazing eyes in the condemned cell at ,newgate under a window which shows him up like the ,day of ,judgment has been called a picture by ,fagin1 for rhetoric exhausts itself in confessing its horror4 ,in ,jack ,sheppard1 ,cruikshank drew ,newgate with particularity1 he drew ,bedlam with a maniac in it2 for ,a ,journal of the ,plague ,year1 he drew ,the ,great ,pit in ,aldgate1 but ,fagin in his extremity belittles other horrors in ,cruikshank's gallery of art4 ,london is ashamed to see and acknowledge him2 he makes her long for rain1 and soap in the rain2 he makes her remember her river4 ,the reader will therefore look sympathetically at the powerful etching here reproduced from ,angus ,b4 ,reach's ,clement ,lorimer 7#ahdi74 ,it is a kidnapping scene2 there is a drugged girl in the boat2 the pier against which an oar has snapped supports an arch of ,london ,bridge4 ,it might be doubted if ,cruikshank personally cared for any locality except ,london if it were not for evidence in the ,south ,kensington ,museum and the dispersed collection of the metropolitan ,royal ,aquarium4 ,number #iejb;,a_/,c in the ,south ,kensington collection of his work is a design for a house which he intended to build for himself at the seaside4 ,the ,royal ,aquarium collection contained several water-colours by him of littoral subjects4 ,hastings may remember what she was like before the building of her esplanade by means of two water-colours by him1 dated respectively #ahbj and #ahbh1 which ,mr ,walter ,spencer bought for five guineas4 ,a ,distant ,view of ,shakespeare's ,cliff1 ,dover1 secured by ,mr ,frank ,karslake1 tempted that art-dealer1 who was its possessor when ,i last saw it1 to withhold it from his customers4 ,it is soft1 slight and pretty4 ,with a fanciful ,beachy ,head 7a water-colour sketch from sic part of ,shakespeare's ,cliff1 ,dover1 #ahcj7 it sold for seven guineas1 the ,beachy ,head being an outline of the cliff resembling a head looking left with dropped eyelid as seen 7perhaps exclusively7 by ,cruikshank1 who represents himself as standing in front of it2 and ,i mention this ,beachy ,head because the same idea informs a rather subtle drollery in ,my ,sketch ,book 7#ahcc71 where a couple are depicted in their fright at seeing a human face outlined by the edge of the top of ,shakespeare's ,cliff4 ,all the sales mentioned in this paragraph were made at the auction at ,sotheby's1 #bb and #bc ,may #aijc4 ,illustration3 ,miss ,eske carried away during her ,trance4 ,from ,clement ,lorimer1 #ahdi4 ,we have had already to touch on the way in which ,cruikshank was the historian of himself4 ,thanks to his literary aggressiveness1 mixed with love1 so quaint and like talk in expression1 that his pages resemble cylinders for a phonograph1 we look at his autobiographical drawings with genuine interest4 ,in ,sir ,benjamin ,ward ,richardson's publication of #ahie--;,drawings by ,george ,cruikshank1 prepared by him to illustrate an intended autobiography--we are introduced pictorially to ,george1 ,nurse1 ,brother and ,mother at ,hampstead2 and the same volume shows our artist unpleasantly situated on a roof sub titulo ,the ,button-hole of a ,naughty boy caught by a nail4 ,in the ,south ,kensington collection ,george shows us very crudely a ,fire in the ,south ,east end of ,london to which ,i ran when a boy with the ,engine from ,bloomsbury4 ,in #ahgg ,george sketched himself as he was about #agii1 when he looked at his father while ,isaac ,cruikshank was drawing1 and we realise the affection in this reminiscence upon seeing ,george's grotesques of low life done when he was a very little boy on the same page where the academic ,isaac has drawn a conventional heroic nude and a little girl suitable for a nursery magazine 7,s4,k4 coll4 ,no4 #ihad74 ,under a pencil sketch 7,s4,k4 coll4 ,no4 #ihag7 we read ,george ,cruikshank when a boy used to put his mother's ,fur ,tippet over his head like the above and make frightful faces for fun4 ,in published work ,cruikshank repeatedly presents his own portrait1 my favourite examples of his self-portraiture being the painter in ,nobody desires the ,painter to make him as ugly and ridiculous as possible 7,scraps and ,sketches1 #ahca71 and that of himself going in as a steward with ,dickens and others to a ,public ,dinner 7,sketches by ,boz1 #ahcf74 ,an excellent example of a comic presentation of himself is the frontispiece to this volume4 ,enviable and admirable health of mind is shown by ,cruikshank's love of his own face1 upon which flourished1 under a high forehead and blue-grey eyes1 full of a cheerful sparkling light1 an ambiguous pair of ornaments1 partaking vaguely1 writes ,mr ,walter ,hamilton1 of the characteristics of whiskers1 moustaches and beard4 ,i conclude this chapter with a reproduction of a painting by ,george ,cruikshank in the ,south ,kensington ,museum4 ,the lady is yellow-haired and has a good complexion4 ,it appears to be a portrait of ,mrs ,george ,cruikshank 7nee ,widdison71 his second wife1 whose prenomen was ,eliza4 ,she could draw1 for there is a vapid but well-finished female head by her in the ,south ,kensington collection of her husband's work 7,no4 #aj1jch-d74 ,she is not1 of course1 to be confounded with ,cruikshank's sister ,eliza1 who designed the caricature of the ,four ,prues4 ,illustration3 ,,eliza ,,cruikshank4 ,from a painting by ,george ,cruikshank in the ,south ,kensington ,museum1 ,no4 #igfi1 endorsed ,mrs ,george ,cruikshank ,e4 ,c4 #ahhd4 ,the date is supposed to refer to the year of presentation to the museum4 ,v ,we have now to consider ,cruikshank as a supernaturalist4 ,perhaps there is no role in which he is more sincerely esteemed4 ,his simple egoism and self-conceit protected him from an apprehension of the nothingness of matter in the eye of a being who is uncontrolled by the world-idea4 ,he could not conceive that a mind can impose the idea of a form upon an inferior mind1 or a mind in sympathy with it3 hence his egregious discovery concerning ghosts4 ,his world of supernature was a playground of fancy where powers are denoted by the same symbols which inform us that this animal can run1 and that animal can fly1 and the other animal can think4 ,it is a world of which the major part is peopled with forms so lively1 gracious and fanciful that ,mr ,frederick ,wedmore's violent preference of ,keene to ,cruikshank seems1 in view of it1 a kind of aggressive rationalism4 ,this world1 however1 contains the ,devil1 and on this colliery monster we will bestow a few glances4 ,illustration3 ,,legend ,,of ,,st ,,medard4 ,the ,saint has slit the bag in which the fiend is carrying children4 ,from ,the ,ingoldsby ,legends1 #ahdb4 ,cruikshank's best idea of the ,devil is comedy of tail4 ,in one of the ,twelve ,sketches illustrative of ,sir ,walter ,scott's ,demonology and ,witchcraft 7#ahcj7 he shows the archfiend seated on the back of a smiling elf who poses as a quadruped to provide a stool4 ,the fiend is dighting an arrow by the light of the flaming hair of an elf who wears an extinguisher on his tail1 and a cat enthusiastically plays with the forked appendage of the illustrious artisan4 ,the dignity of labour is here inimitably manifest4 ,lovably ludicrous1 too1 is the ,devil whom ,cruikshank presents in ,the ,de'il cam fiddling thro' the ,town 7,illustrations of ,popular ,works1 #ahcj74 ,auld ,mahoun's forked tail has caught the exciseman by the cravat4 ,in ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahcb74 ,cruikshank has another ,devil who plays on a gridiron as if it were a guitar1 to soothe a man who has been lassoed by his tail4 ,and if my tail should make you sad ,i'll strike my light guitar4 ,in ,a ,discovery concerning ,ghosts 7#ahfc7 ,cruikshank depicts the ,devil as lifting a table with his tail and one hoof4 ,one of the ,devils offered to my readers--he whom ,st ,medard thwarted--is an example of good work in a bad setting2 the machine-ruled sky and scandalously slurred distance must be viewed as symptoms of ,cruikshank's dislike for ,bentley1 the publisher of ,the ,ingoldsby ,legends4 ,the cuts from ,the ,true ,legend of ,st ,dunstan and the ,devil 7#ahdh7 replace the perverted ,pan--,pan as perverted for the abolition of his prestige--with a plaintive ruffian whose horns and hoofs disgrace a very obvious humanity4 ,exit ,devil3 enter ,satan4 ,about #ahbg ,cruikshank drew him on wood1 in the act of calling on his followers as related by ,milton in ,paradise ,lost1 ,book ,i41 ,il4 #cad-ccb4 ,cruikshank described the drawing referred to1 which was engraved by an unconfident hand1 as the best drawing that ,i ever did in my life4 ,a solitary print of the engraving made of it sold at ,sotheby's for ,l#c1 #fs4 ,on a towering rock1 ,satan calls up an army which looks like living ribbon wound up out of the bottomless pit to the ceiling of the air4 ,his personality is felt by the effect of his command1 not by his individual appearance4 ,michelangelo might have favourably considered this book-illustration as a bare sketch of a muster of the damned2 for as one looks at it he is tempted to give it to half a dozen painters and put it in hand4 ,illustration3 ,,shoeing ,,the ,,devil4 ,from ,edward ,g4 ,flight's ,the ,true ,legend of ,st ,dunstan and the ,devil1 #ahdh4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,devil ,,signing4 ,from ,edward ,g ,flight's ,the ,true ,legend of ,st ,dunstan and the ,devil1 #ahdh4 ,the naive evangelicism of ,the ,pilgrim's ,progress was productive of more of ,cruikshank's serious monsters4 #ahbg is the date of seven woodcuts by him for this work 7,reid #ceee-fa7 which do not impress ,mr ,spielmann2 they are1 however1 very neatly executed1 and the drawing of ,christian arriving at the ,gate is quite unwarrantably pleasant in its suggestion of conflict and weariness ending in the bosom of hospitality4 ,in #ahch ,cruikshank contributed ,vanity ,fair--an elaborate etching--to a ,pilgrim's ,progress containing plates by ,h4 ,melville4 ,vanity ,fair is a skilful catalogue marred by the misnaming of ,britain ,row4 ,he produced another ,vanity ,fair1 circa #ahed1 a vehement and uninteresting design which1 with companion drawings by him of the same date1 appears in ,mr ,henry ,frowde's edition of ,the ,pilgrim's ,progress 7#aijc74 ,these drawings 7only recently engraved7 annoyed ,mr ,g4 ,s4 ,layard1 and me they amuse and touch4 ,they show that ,cruikshank could draw the face of a man whose metier is goodness1 444 and that ,apollyon--a veritable creature of tinker-craft in ,bunyan's text--was utterly beyond ,cruikshank's power to shape according to the crooked splendour of his name4 ,one must not forget that a pious convention of absurdity is a trap for the critic and the humorist alike4 ,i feel that ,cruikshank almost loved ,bunyan4 ,witness the large coloured print inscribed in his last decade1 ,geo4 ,cruikshank #ahga1 where ,christian--a ,galahad of knightliness--passes through the snake-afflicted valley of the ,shadow of ,death4 ,illustration3 ,,peter ,,schlemihl ,,watching ,,the ,,clock ,from ,peter ,schlemihl1 #ahbc4 ,copies of the book dated #ahbd are also accepted as of the first edition4 ,exit the ,pilgrim1 and re-enter the ,devil4 ,cruikshank made remarkable successes in two series of illustrations wherein this magnate assumes the form of a man of our world4 ,the books in which they appear are ,peter ,schlemihl by ,adelbert von ,chamisso 7#ahbc7 and ,the ,gentleman in ,black by ,j4 ,y4 ,akerman 7#ahca74 ,to ,chamisso the ,devil is a silent1 meagre1 pale1 tall elderly man wearing an old-fashioned grey taffetan coat with a close-fitting breast-pocket to it1 and he is willing to buy ,peter's shadow4 ,meagre and close-fitting is ,cruikshank's idea of him2 he is only substantial enough to give posture and movement to his clothes4 ,that is a beautiful etching where he is folding ,peter's shadow as a tailor folds a suit and ,peter is unaware of the terrible oddity of a foot on the ground having for shadow a foot in the air--a foot no longer subordinate to ,peter who will tread the earth in despair when he is a shadowless man2 and that is a marrow-thrilling etching where ,peter's tempter stands casting two shadows and flourishing a document promising the delivery of ,peter's soul to the bearer after its separation from ,peter's body4 ,there is a haunting cold brightness about the ,schlemihl etchings4 ,if you see them without a sensation of their difference from the work of any body except him who made them1 your acquaintance includes a prodigy1 a ,cruikshank plus x4 ,to ,j4 ,y4 ,akerman the ,devil was a stout1 short1 middle-aged gentleman of a somewhat saturnine complexion who was clad in black and had a loose ,geneva cloak 444 of the same colour4 ,like ,schlemihl's customer he pays with a bottomless purse and in the cuts1 engraved by ,j4 ,thompson and ,c4 ,landells1 we see him a grave humorous and sinister person1 who after his urbanity has been shaken by the cleverness of the law1 is exhibited without warrant of narrative1 as ,old ,horny on a gibbet4 ,i presume the above-mentioned ,j ,thompson1 by the way1 to be the ,john ,thompson whom ,cruikshank describes at the foot of a letter from this engraver dated ,feb4 #g1 #ahdj1 as the ,great1 the wonderful ,artistic ,engraver on wood--and who used to engrave my drawings as no other man ever did4 ,after the ,devil comes ,punch1 who in the puppet play destroys him4 ,punch is only by irony a nursery character4 ,he represents the comic genius of murder4 ,a ,hooligan may feel like a ,pharisee after looking at him4 ,his coarse materialism would affront a pierreuse4 ,cruikshank drew ,punch as early as #ahad in a plate1 satirising a fete given by the ,duke of ,portland on the occasion of the baptism of an infant marquis4 ,the plate is entitled ,belvoir ,frolic's sic and appears in ,no4 #d of ,the ,meteor4 ,a very long-nosed ,punch extols the beverage bearing his name1 and his infant son falls into a punch-bowl while being baptised by a drunkard4 ,it was not1 however1 till #ahbh that a reasonable joker could call ,cruikshank's great hit a punch4 ,that date is on the title-page of ,punch and ,judy edited by ,j4 ,payne ,collier1 for whose publisher 7,s4 ,prowett7 ,cruikshank drew the scenes of the immortal puppet-play as produced by ,piccini1 who defied any other puppet-showman in ,england to perform his feat of making the figure with the immoderate neck remove its hat with one hand4 ,thanks to ,piccini1 then1 ,cruikshank's ,punch is the real ,punch--a goggling miscreant1 whose hump is a rigid and misplaced tail and whose military hat1 above a crustacean's face1 completes a rather melancholy effect of mania4 ,the conductor of ,george ,cruikshank's ,omnibus confessed to feeling that it was easy to represent ,punch's eyes1 his nose1 his mouth1 but that the one essential was after all wanting--the squeak4 ,cruikshank was barely just to his pencil4 ,as one looks at his ,punch one feels that such a being is either a squeaker or a mute4 ,as for the ,devil1 whose role is so humiliating in the ,punch tromedy 7as a neologist might call it71 he is of an aspect pitiably mean--like a corpse attired in river mud4 ,illustration3 ,,punch ,,throwing ,,away ,,the ,,body ,,of ,,the ,,servant4 ,from ,punch and ,judy1 #ahbh 7early proof74 ,the portrait of ,george ,cruikshank below his initials does not appear in the book4 ,after this1 it is impossible not to realise the enormity of the compliment paid by the hand of ,cruikshank 7serving the imagination of ,g4 ,h47 to ,napoleon in that publication of ,august #ahae1 rashly stated by ,mr ,bruton to be the finest ,napoleonic caricature1 which depicts the imperial exile of ,st ,helena as the ,devil addressing a solar ,prince ,regent4 ,here the ,devil gets the credit of a handsome face and ,napoleon the debit of cloven feet4 ,cruikshank's representation of the ,devil as ,old ,nick has the absurd merit of recalling his idea of the servant of a good ,peri6 ,compare ,the ,handsome ,clear-starcher 7,bentley's ,miscellany1 #ahch7 with ,the ,peri 1 the ,djin and the ,taylor 7,minor ,morals1 ,part ,,iii41 #ahci74 ,both these ornaments of my sex have white eyes windowing a black face1 and the former1 with heraldic sulphur fumes above his figure of ,elizabethan dandy1 is1 if we do not date him1 a horrible gibe at the feminine ,satan of sorrows4 ,is there1 the reader may now ask1 not unmindful of the ,miltonic drawing already described1 no ,satan among ,cruikshank's ,netherlanders1 to show that he saw the sublime of evil as clearly as he saw ,fagin8 ,alas for catalogues raisonnes6 for if it were not for ,g4 ,w4 ,reid we could not point the querist to ,cruikshank's ,lucifer in his illustrations on wood to ,george ,clinton's ,memoirs of the ,life and ,writings of ,lord ,byron 7#ahbe74 ,of a shape like to the angels1 yet of a sterner and a sadder aspect of spiritual essence1 not less beauteous than the cherubim1 ,cruikshank1 with or without an accomplice in another engraver1 makes a black and white ,moor1 jointed like a ,dutch doll1 with wings which an ,icarus would distrust4 ,perhaps the most impressive conception of the author of unhappiness which ,cruikshank executed was that which he owed to the imagination of ,mrs ,octavian ,blewitt4 ,in his last published etching1 ,the ,rose and the ,lily 7#ahge71 he depicts1 by her instruction1 a lake out of which appears1 like an islet1 the weed-covered top of a vast head1 the eyes of which are the only visible features4 ,the lake is the abode of ,the ,demon of ,evil and his eyes of bale are upturned to regard a fairy queen and her suite who hover over a rose and a lily4 ,cruikshank's favourite among semi-infernal or hemi-demi-semi celestial characters would seem to have been ,herne1 the demon of ,windsor ,forest1 whom legend derives from a suicide4 ,our illustration of ,herne appearing to ,henry ,,viii4 7#ahdc7 is sombre and grandiose4 ,the artist recurred to ,herne again in one of his beautiful etchings for ,the life of ,sir ,john ,falstaff by ,r4 ,b4 ,brough 7#aheh74 ,falstaff as ,herne1 with antlers on his head1 lies prone beneath the great riven oak which is called ,herne's oak1 because human ,herne is supposed to have hanged himself from a bough of it4 ,fairies1 depicted by their lover1 have taken into their invisible web of glamour the grossness of ,falstaff1 and to me the etching which contains in harmony so tragic a tree1 so gluttonous a man1 and the only angels that shame can love without terror is not an illustration of ,shakespeare but a vision of everybody's heaven4 ,for if it is an illustration of ,shakespeare1 then are these no fairies but ,mistress ,quickly1 ,anne ,page and other actresses1 in a punitive and moralising mood6 ,the last appearance of ,cruikshank's ,herne is in a drawing1 done when the artist was eighty-three1 for ,peeps at ,life 7#ahge71 in which the demon rides through ,windsor ,forest with a monk behind him4 ,illustration3 ,,herne ,,the ,,hunter ,,appearing ,,to ,,henry ,,viii4 7,windsor ,castle74 ,from ,ainsworth's ,magazine1 vol4 iii41 #ahdc4 ,it is now time to say a few words about the ,cruikshankian ghost4 ,about the year #ahfj1 ,cruikshank offered ,l#ajj to anyone who should show him a ghost said to have been seen frequently in the neighbourhood of some ,roman ,catholic institution near ,leicester4 ,no one claimed the money1 and ,cruikshank remained a religious materialist1 charmingly boyish in his amusement over the ghosts of tears and dirt4 ,his natural idea of a ghost was comic in the way of a wise old world that taxes pain and wrath for humour4 ,his designs for ,part ,,ii4 of ,points of ,humour 7#ahbd7 include a vision of spirits discharged from their bodies by the ministrations of a pompous doctor1 who holds his stick against his mouth because ,cruikshank condemned the use of the crutch as a toothpick4 ,the ugliness of these spirits is not excelled by ,cruikshank's ,giles ,scroggins1 in vol4 i4 of ,the ,universal ,songster 7#ahbe71--;a spook whose waving hands like bewitched gloves1 exultant toes and nightcap tipsy as a blown flame1 are duly noted by ,molly ,brown4 ,folklore had a refining influence on ,cruikshank when1 for ,scott's ,demonology and ,witchcraft1 he etched1 in #ahcj1 ,mrs ,leckie1 a white-aproned ghost who1 by a miracle of ,scotchness1 is perfectly decorous as she kicks with a high heeled shoe the doctor of physic who shewed some desire to be rid of her society4 ,cruikshank's chef d'oeuvre of ghost-humour is an etching for ,captain ,glascock's ,land ,sharks and ,sea ,gulls 7#ahch74 ,this triumph of pictorial anecdote confronts us with ,ann ,dobbs1 who has materialised her head and hands for the purpose of exhibiting1 with a proper show of accusation1 to a whimpering sailor1 whose pigtail has risen in homage to her1 the feller piece of the broken bit of her tomb-stone1 which he had stolen for a holy-stone to clean decks with4 ,after this1 the reader may be surprised to learn that a ghost1 produced by ,cruikshank for ,the ,scourge of ,august #ahae1 was serious enough to be precautiously blacked out before the plate entitled ,a ,financial ,survey of ,cumberland1 ,or the ,beggar's ,petition1 was put into general circulation4 ,it is the ghost of ,sellis1 the ,duke of ,cumberland's valet1 who is made to accuse his earthly master of murder1 by these words ,is this a razor ,i see before me8 ,thou canst not say ,i did it4 ,of that other serious ghost1 ,st ,winifred in ,guy ,fawkes 7#ahdj71 enough has been said4 ,her dullness is absolutely unmystical1 and it is a relief to turn from her to look at ,the ,holy ,infant1 that prayed as soon as he was born 7,catholic ,miracles1 #ahbe71 an exquisitely droll sketch1 about as large as a penny1 of intense chubbiness in a hand basin4 ,though sympathy with men and women did not make ,cruikshank courteous to ghosts1 he was led by the credulity and experience of his childhood to be affectionate to fairies and almost patriotic in his feeling about the magical countries in which they dwell4 ,in a note to ,puss in ,boots he informs us that his nurse told him when he was a very little boy that the fairies had houses in the white places--i4e4 fungi--in the corners of cellars4 ,in cellars he accordingly looked for them1 and certainly did 444 fancy that he saw very1 very tiny little people running in and out of these little white houses--i4e4fungi--and attributed any power he possessed of drawing or describing a fairy to his nurse's communications and his visions in cellars4 ,like a sword-swallower ,i saw in ,belfast1 ,i will ask you to put your hands together1 for the anecdote just related is corroborated by the charm of his fairy drawings4 ,illustration3 ,from ,comic ,composites for the ,scrap-,book1 #ahba4 ,what happened when ,cruikshank went into cellars is symbolical of poetry4 ,he saw what was not there by that creative touch of mind which transforms an object by increasing its similitude to something else4 ,in ,comic ,composites for the ,scrap ,book 7#ahba71 we have intelligent human creatures suggested by arrangements of household implements4 ,as ,i look at the mundatory erection here reproduced1 ,i anachronistically hum ,stephen ,glover's ,march composed for ,prince ,albert's ,hussars4 ,it is1 however1 less brilliant than the aldermanic bellows and the doctor 7with a mortar for body1 cottonwool for hair and labels for feet71 to whom he states his symptoms in ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahca71 for they amuse the satirist even at this date when gluttony is merely not moderation and bored sapience is merely not sympathetic wisdom4 ,cruikshank then had one great qualification for illustrating fairy tales3 he could animate the inanimate4 ,let us now follow his career as a fairy artist1 beginning with his first great success4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,goose ,,girl4 ,from ,german ,popular ,stories1 vol4 ii41 #ahbf4 ,in #ahbb appeared a post-dated volume of ,german ,popular ,stories 444 collected by ,m4 ,m4 ,grimm4 ,a companion volume was published in #ahbf1 and both books were adorned by the hand of ,george ,cruikshank4 ,excepting two much-admired ,german leprechauns or fairy cobblers in one of ,cruikshank's twenty-two etchings1 they do not present a fairy worth smiling at1 and these cobblers1 boundlessly delighted by a present of clothes1 are1 of course1 very far from being of the angelic elite of ,fairyland1 as drawn by ,sir ,joseph ,noel ,paton for ,mrs ,s4 ,c4 ,hall4 ,but ,fairyland is in the imagination of democracy1 and he is a good patriot of that country who amuses us with its freaks1 for they are dear to the hoi polloi which appreciate novelty more than perfection4 ,cruikshank in his ,grimm mood is for the living drollery which cured ,sebastian's scepticism concerning the phoenix and the unicorn4 ,he rejoicingly presents a nose as long as a garden hose--a nose worthy of the beard which travels from page #f to page #g of his ,table-,book 7#ahde74 ,he refreshes us with the humorous pleasure of the giant inspecting ,thumbling on the palm of his hand2 and he convulses us with the vocal display of the ass1 dog and cat which plunge through the glass of a window into the robbers' room4 ,ruskin said of these etchings that they were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since ,rembrandt2 7in some qualities of delineation unrivalled even by him72 to that eulogy ,i can only add that they are inspiriting because they are candid and vivid1 and show that realism can be on the side of magic4 ,passing without pause some tiny cuts1 upon which children would pounce for love of gnomes1 in ,the ,pocket ,magazine 7#ahbg1 #ahbh71 we arrive again at ,cruikshank's sketches for ,scott's ,demonology and ,witchcraft 7#ahcj71 and inspect elves and fairies1 barely prettier than mosquitoes1 annoying mortals4 ,worry is incarnate in a horizontal man who is supported in and drawn through the air by elves1 directed by two drivers1 one on each of his boots4 ,beautiful is the contempt for herrings of an elf standing on a plate which a comrade is about to smash with a hammer in the presence of a cheaply-hospitable 7and sluttish7 housewife whom a dozen elves have pulled downstairs by her feet4 ,fables which invent sorrow to prevent it can only be classed as fairy-tales by a sacrifice of the mot juste1 which ,i make in order to call attention to an exquisite quartet of etchings by ,george ,cruikshank1 illustrating ,richard ,frankum's verses entitled ,the ,bee and the ,wasp 7#ahcb74 ,no hand but his who drew the shadow-buyer in ,peter ,schlemihl could have drawn the hair-lines of the criminal insect who mocks the drowning bee in the third of these etchings4 ,so pleased and delicate a malignancy is expressed in him that he figures to me as a personification of evil1 and ,i am disagreeably conscious of smiling to think that1 because he speaks and is seen1 he is a gentleman compared with a trypanosome or a bacillus coli4 ,illustration3 ,,amaranth ,,the ,,ever ,,young ,,is ,,carried ,,to ,,corallion ,,by ,,the ,,bee',s ,,monster ,,steed4 ,from ,the ,good ,genius that ,turned ,everything into ,gold1 by the ,bros ,mayhew1 #ahdg4 ,a bee--but a superbee--figured in the next fairy book illustrated by ,cruikshank4 ,in his designs for ,the ,good ,genius that ,turned ,everything into ,gold 7#ahdg7 he showed for the first time an ambition to idealise magic4 ,the idea that power exists in beings of familiar shape and wieldy dimensions to build palaces and fleets without mistakes1 without plans and adjustments1 without the publication of embryos behind hoardings--to build them without economy and sacrificial fatigue--this is the breathless poem of the crowd4 ,the ,brothers ,mayhew gave this idea to ,cruikshank1 and one at least of his etchings for their story--the palace emerging from rock and arborescence--shows that he almost objectified it4 ,thus 7unconsciously7 did he atone for that neglect of opportunity which allowed him to deck the magical and tender1 the deep and lustrous fiction of ,e4 ,t4 ,w4 ,hoffmann1 the inspired playmate of ideas that rock with laughter and subdue with awe1 with nothing better than a frigidly humorous picture of a duel with spy-glasses4 ,in #ahdh an incomplete and refined translation of ,,ii ,pentamerone appeared with pretty and sprightly designs by ,cruikshank4 ,these designs show a more direct sympathy with juvenile taste than his famous etchings for ,german ,popular ,stories4 ,with shut eyes one can still see his ogre swearing at the razor-crop1 and his strong man marching off with all the wealth of the ,king of ,fair-,flower1 while the champion blower with one good blast makes bipeds of horses and kites of men4 ,nennella stepping grandly out of the enchanted fish to embrace her brother is dear to an indulgent scepticism4 ,there were beautiful fields and a fine mansion inside that fish and his toothful mouth is but a portico of ,fairyland4 ,illustration3 ,from ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library1 ',cinderella1' #ahed4 ,tails not having been invented merely to mitigate the sorrows of ,satan1 ,cruikshank had some more of these appendages to draw when with ,kit ,bam's ,adventures 7#ahdi7 he entered the fairyland of ,mrs ,cowden ,clarke4 ,the very rhetorical mariner of that story is remembered for the sake of the tails of mer-children twining about his legs in the frontispiece to it1 and human children allow their ,louis ,wain to wane for a minute as1 with ,kit ,bam1 they look at ,cruikshank's tortoiseshell cat1 ruffed and aproned1 laying the table while ,captain ,capsicum1 horned and gouty1 urbanely watches her4 ,naturally ,cruikshank desired to associate himself permanently with fairy stories better known in ,england than the name of any folklorist or ,perrault ,d',armancourt himself4 ,rusher had published1 circa #ahad1 ,cinderella and ,dick ,whittington with cuts designed by ,cruikshank1 whose prenomen was or was not ,george2 and to ,george ,cruikshank is ascribed by ,mr ,edwin ,pearson some early cuts for ,mother ,hubbard and her ,dog4 ,each of these illustrations could be covered with a quartet of our postage stamps and only those for ,mother ,hubbard1 which are droll and tender1 possess more than an antiquarian interest4 ,in #ahdf1 in twelve designs built round the title ,fairy ,songs and ,ballads for the young 444 ,by ,o4 ,b4 ,dussek 4441 ,george ,cruikshank illustrated ,dick ,whittington1 ,jack and the ,beanstalk1 etc41 and was lively and pretty in a wee way4 ,these were trifles1 however1 and ,cruikshank was ambitious4 ,in #ahec-d and #ahfd he flattered his ambition by the issue of ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library4 ,unfortunately ,ruskin was displeased with the earlier issues of this library1 for in #aheg he forbade his disciples to copy ,cruikshank's designs for ,cinderella1 ,jack and the ,beanstalk and ,tom ,thumb sic as being much over-laboured and confused in line4 ,but on ,july #cj1 #ahec1 ,mrs ,cowden ,clarke begged ,cruikshank to allow her to thank him in the name of herself and1 writes she1 the other grown-up children of our family1 together with the numerous little nephews and nieces who form the ungrown-up children among us1 for the delightful treat you have bestowed in the shape of the #ast ,no4 of the ',fairy ,library4' ,this was the maligned ,hop-o'-my-,thumb1 the pictures of which possess the charm of the artist's ,pentamerone4 ,none of ,cruikshank's ogres are as horrible as ,j4 ,g4 ,pinwell's man-eating giant in ,the ,arabian ,nights1 and so the ogre in his ,hop-o'-my ,thumb is merely a glutton with a knife1 but what a passion of entreaty is expressed in the kneeling children at his feet6 ,the seven-leagued boots are worth all ,lilley and ,skinner's as1 formally introduced1 they bow before the smiling king4 ,the architectural effect of the design which1 as it were1 makes a historian of a tree is admirable4 ,the beanstalk in ,no4 #b is a true ladder of romance2 and1 seeing it1 ,i think that ,cruikshank escaped from the repugnant vulgarity of ,g4 ,h4 on that ,may or ,june day of #ahae when he drew ,the ,pedigree of ,corporal ,violet 7alias ,napoleon7 as a perpendicular of flowers and fungi and dreamed of the fairy seed he would sow for children4 ,in ,jack and the ,beanstalk there is not only a fairy plant but a real ,english fairy gauzy-winged1 tiny1 with a wand as fine as a needle4 ,yet ,ruskin was displeased1 and we may define the fault which caused his displeasure as a finicky unveracity about shade and textures4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,ogre ,,in ,,the ,,form ,,of ,a ,,lion4 ,from ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library1 ,puss in ,boots1 #ahfd4 ,in #ahff1 however1 ,cruikshank executed two plates for ,ruskin2 one of them illustrated ,the ,blue ,light from ,grimm1 the other showed the children of ,hamelin following the ,pied ,piper into the mountain2 and in the same year he almost paralleled the success of his fairy cobblers in ,grimm by an etching of ,pixies engaged in making boots1 which he did for ,frederick ,locker1 afterwards ,locker-,lampson4 ,in #ahfh ,cruikshank made the large and beautiful etching entitled ,fairy ,connoisseurs inspecting ,mr ,frederick ,locker's ,collection of ,drawings4 ,anyone who has read ,my ,confidences 7#ahif7 will acknowledge that it was a happy thought to invite the ,little ,people into ,mr ,locker-,lampson's library1 for this bibliophile1 so humorous and elegant1 so ready with the exact ,latin quotation needed to civilise perfectly the shape of an indecorum1 was in essence a child whose toys were consecrated to the fairies by his purity in loving them4 ,we will take leave of ,cruikshank as a fairy artist by a look at a sketch for his picture ,the ,fairy ,ring4 ,he painted the picture1 which is his best oil-painting1 in #ahee for the late ,henry ,miller of ,preston1 for ,l#hjj4 ,the sketch referred to sold at ,sotheby's in #aijc for ,l#be1 #ajs4 ,this sketch--a painting--,i saw at the ,royal ,aquarium1 as in a bleak railway station without the romance of travel4 ,the ,fairy ,king stands on a mushroom about which rotate two rings of merrymakers between which run torch bearers4 ,they are mad1 these merrymakers1 and madness is delight4 ,hard by1 a towering foxglove leans into space1 bearing two joyous sprites4 ,gigantic is the lunar crescent that shines on the scene2 it is a gate through which an intrepid fairy rides a bat above the revels4 ,in this impressionistic sketch1 ,cruikshank shows himself participant in the mysterious exultation of the open night where man1 intruding1 feels neither seen nor known4 ,the ,fairy ,ring belongs to the poetry of humour4 ,it perorates for a supernaturalist whose fashionable ignorance1 touched with less durable vulgarity1 blinded him to such visions as1 in our time1 the poet ,a4 ,e4 has depicted4 ,looking at ,cruikshank's supernatural world of littleness and prettiness1 of mirth1 extravagance1 and oddity1 we feel in debt to his limitations4 ,,vi ,the humour of ,george ,cruikshank deserves separate consideration1 because it is essentially the man himself4 ,despite a technical excellence so peculiar that1 according to the author of ,number #a of ,bursill's ,biographies1 the engraver ,thompson kept a set of special tools1 silver-mounted and with ivory handles1 sacred for ,cruikshank's designs1 his sense of beauty was not eyes to him4 ,women he usually saw as lard or bone1 and this strange perversity of vision and art differentiates him from the moderns by more than time4 ,for instance1 the women presented by ,mr ,s4 ,d4 ,ehrhart and ,o',neill ,latham 7a lady-artist71 to mention only two modern humorists1 materialise an idea of beauty in humour which was as foreign to ,cruikshank as apple-blossom to a pomme de terre4 ,illustration3 ,a ,,gentleman',s ,,rest ,,broken 7in consequence of going to bed with his leg on74 ,from an etching in ,scraps and ,sketches1 ,part #a1 #ahbh4 ,humour with ,cruikshank was elemental4 ,a joke was sacred from implication2 it was self-sufficient1 vocal in line and curve1 percussive4 ,he was a contemporary of ,douglas ,jerrold1 who was humorous when he called a town ,hole-cum-,corner4 ,he was a contemporary of ,thomas ,hood1 who was humorous when he announced that from her grave in ,mary-bone ,they've come and bon'd your ,mary4 ,he was in that world of wit where they kept a nutmeg-grater on the table in order to say1 when a great man was mentioned1 there's a grater4 ,he was in a world where professional humour was perversely destructive of faith in imagination4 ,illustration3 ,,exchange ,,no ,,robbery4 ,from ,points of ,humour1 #ahbc4 ,the unfaithful wife has concealed her lover in the clock4 ,the husband1 who has unexpectedly returned1 devours bacon at #a ,a4,m41 while she is in an agony of apprehension4 ,but what is humour8 ,late though the question be1 it should be answered4 ,humour1 then1 is the ability to receive a shock of pleasant surprise from sounds and appearances without attributing importance to them4 ,as the proof of humour is physiological1 its appeal to the intellect is as peremptory as that of terror4 ,it is a benignant despot which relieves us from the sense of destiny and of duty4 ,its range is illimitable4 ,it is victoriously beneath contempt and above worship4 ,cruikshank was a humorist who could laugh coarsely1 broadly1 selfishly1 merrily1 well4 ,coarseness was natural to him1 or he would not have selected for a 7suppressed7 illustration in ,italian ,tales 7#ahbd7 a subject which mingles tragedy with the laughter of ,cloacina4 ,one can only say that humour1 like a sparrow1 alights without regard to conventions4 ,the majority can laugh with ,rabelais1 though they have not the idealism which created ,theleme4 ,jokes that annoy the nose are no longer tolerable in art1 but in ,cruikshank's time so wholesome a writer as ,captain ,marryat thought ,gillray worth imitating in his translation of disease into terms of humour4 ,hence ,the ,headache and ,the ,cholic 7#ahai71 signed with an anchor 7,captain ,marryat's signature7 and etched by ,cruikshank1 follow ,the ,gout by ,gillray 7#agii74 ,the reader may well ask if the sight of a hideous creature sprawling on a man's foot is humour according to my definition4 ,i can only presume that in what ,mr ,grego calls the port-wine days1 ,gillray's plate was like sudden sympathy producing something so absolutely suitable for swearing at1 that patients smiled in easy-chairs at grief4 ,broad humour has an eye on sex4 ,the uncle who1 on being asked at dinner for an opinion on a lady's costume1 observes that he must go under the table to form it1 is a type of the broad humorist in modern life4 ,cruikshank had none of that tenderness for women's clothes which in modern representation removes altogether the pudical idea from costume and substitutes the idea of witchery by foam of lace and coil of skirts4 ,his guffaws and those of ,captain ,marryat and ,j4 ,p999999y1 whose invention exercised his needle1 at the ,achilles in ,hyde ,park1 in #ahbb1 are vexatious enough to make one wish to restore all fig-leaves to the fig-forest4 ,it is not possible for a man with an indefinite and inexpressible feeling for woman to laugh like that4 ,hearing his laughter we know that ,cruikshank's humour about woman must always be obvious4 ,illustration3 ,,eh41 ,,sirs6 ,illustrates ,waverley1 by ,sir ,walter ,scott1 in ,landscape-,historical ,illustrations of ,scotland and the ,waverley ,novels1 #ahcf4 ,it is1 and yet it is not measured by the height of her hat as he depicted it in #ahbh1 when he contributed to that long series of jokes which culminate in ,jan ,linse's girl at the theatre who will not take her hat off because1 mamma1 if ,i put it in my lap ,i can't see myself4 ,in the annals of absurdity is there anything more worthy to be true at the expense of the ,british ,navy than ,cruikshank's picture of the chambermaid confronted with the leg which she has mistaken for a warming-pan8 ,another woman1 whom ,cruikshank compels us to remember by force of humorous idea1 is to be found in ,points of ,humour 7#ahbc74 ,she is the doxy in ,the ,jolly ,beggars1 sitting on the soldier's lap4 ,we see her while she holds up her greedy gab ,just like ae aumous dish4 ,the soldier has lost an arm and a leg1 but his face is the face of infatuation and her lips are the lips of lust4 ,the toes of her bare feet express pleasure longing for ecstasy4 ,i write seriously3 they are very eloquent toes4 ,there is a fire near the amorous pair1 and the dog basking by it1 uninterested in them1 is a token of peace unpried upon4 ,her left hand grasps a pot of whiskey4 ,she is in heaven4 ,indeed there is too much heaven in the picture for me to laugh at it4 ,behind the incongruity which clamours for laughter is the magic of drink reshaping in idea a half-butchered man and reviving the fires of sex4 ,illustration3 ,,hope4 ,from ,phrenological ,illustrations1 #ahbf4 ,after this we glide politely from women as they blossom in the drollery of ,cruikshank4 ,jenny showers pills1 bolus1 julep and apozem too on the physicians who would have exenterated her 7vide ,the ,new ,bath ,guide1 #ahcj74 ,the patent washing machines remember their sex at the approach of ,waverley 7vide ,landscape-,historical ,illustrations1 #ahcf71 and remind us that in #ahaj ,t4 ,tegg published a less refined ,scotch ,washing over the signature of ,cruikshank4 ,nanse sheds the light of a candle upon the corpse of the cat compressed by a heavy sitter 7vide ,the ,life of ,mansie ,wauch1 #ahci74 ,the squaw in glass and tobacco-pipes dress'd evokes lyrical refusal from the ,jack who has sworn to be constant to ,poll 7vide ,songs1 ,naval1 and ,national1 of the late ,charles ,dibdin1 #ahda74 ,lady ,jane ,ingoldsby smilingly--with lifted hand for note of interjection--allows her attention to be directed to the half of her drowned husband which was not eaten up by the eels 7vide ,bentley's ,miscellany1 #ahdc74 ,william's widow contemplates with fury the sailor upon whose nose has alighted her dummy babe 7vide ,the ,old ,sailor's ,jolly ,boat1 #ahdd72 and ,general ,betsy gobbles her novel in a chaotic kitchen1 oblivious of the horror of her mistress 7vide ,the ,greatest ,plague in ,life1 #ahdg74 ,in all this pageant of absurdity is wanting the special touch which surprises the spectator4 ,the emotions of the women are rendered as with a consciousness that they are a merchandise of art and in stock4 ,illustration3 ,details from the ,plate entitled ,heads of the ,table1 in ,george ,cruikshank's ,table-,book1 #ahde4 ,the caricaturist of mankind1 to immortalise his work1 must haunt us with physiognomy4 ,thus ,honore ,daumier in ,le ,bain ,chaud haunts us with the burlesque heroism in the face of a man about to sit down in water which pretends to scald him4 ,sir ,john ,tenniel haunts us with the complacent slyness of ,dizzy bringing in the hot water for ,february #ahgi to that distrustful lie-abed ,john ,bull4 ,charles ,dana ,gibson haunts us with the charmed vanity of an aged millionairess sitting up1 bald and bony1 in a regal bed1 with her coffee-cup arrested in hand by the fulsome puff of her person and adornments read to her by her pretty maid4 ,george ,du ,maurier haunts us with the freezing question in the face of the knight who has permitted himself to crack an empty eggshell on the ,fust o' ,hapril4 ,how does ,cruikshank stand as a creator of humorous physiognomy8 ,the answer is not from a trumpet4 ,he invented crowds of people who seem merely the fruits of formulae1 and in comedy the simple application of the science of ,john ,caspar ,lavater is weak in effect1 since laughter is tributary to surprise4 ,compare ,daumier's man in hot water with ,cruikshank's ,trotting 7a similar subject in ,the ,humourist1 vol4 iii41 #ahbj71 and one sees the difference between mere ,lavaterism and emotion detected with delight4 ,compare ,daumier's facetious ruffian asking the time of the man he intends to rob with almost any ruffian in ,cruikshank's humorous gallery and one can only say that1 in effect1 one drew him to haunt the mind2 the other to bore it4 ,one ruffian surpasses his type without deserting it2 the other is the type itself4 ,here and there1 however1 ,cruikshank creates an individual who is more than his type without being divergent from it4 ,do we find such a one in the serious eater in ,hope 7,phrenological ,specimens1 #ahbf71 in whose bone1 already as innutritious as a toothbrush1 his dog confides for sustenance8 ,i think so1 because ,i see him when ,i think of appetite as of tragedy4 ,humour accepts him in deference to her idea that there is nothing that cannot be laughed at1 and she is worthy of deification when she goes down1 down1 down1 laughing where even her worshippers are mute4 ,i doubt if ,cruikshank twice excelled in respect of authenticity in humour the host and guest whom he presented in the reproduced subjects from ,heads of the ,table 7#ahde74 ,humour ascends from his ,hope to them as to a heaven of animals from a purgatorial region4 ,that even what ,i have called ,cruikshank's ,lavaterism can be amusing is proved by his portrait of ,socrates at the moment before he said rain follows thunder4 ,we owe probably to ,cruikshank's inveterate love of punning the capital study in disdain as provoked by envy exhibited in one of the lions in ,the ,lion of the ,party 7#ahde74 ,of his animal humour ,i shall have more to say3 these lions are more human than many of his representations of homo sapiens2 they need no footline4 ,illustration3 ,x ,xantippe ,from ,a ,comic ,alphabet1 #ahcf4 ,see ,pope's ,the ,wife of ,bath 7after ,chaucer71 ,,ii4 #chg-cib4 ,the student of ,cruikshank's humour must follow him through many volumes in which his pencil is subservient to literature2 and in this journey he will often open his mouth to yawn rather than to laugh4 ,the professional humorist1 like the professional poet1 is the prey of the ,irony that sits up aloft2 and ,cruikshank was not an exception4 ,indeed one may say of some of his crowded caricatures that one has to wade through them4 ,in the humorous illustration of literature his work is seldom risible1 but it usually pleases by a combination of neatness and energy4 ,despite his intense egotism he ventured to associate his art with the works of ,shakespeare1 ,fielding1 ,smollett1 ,r4 ,e4 ,raspe1 ,cowper1 ,byron1 ,scott1 ,dickens1 ,goldsmith1 ,douglas ,jerrold1 ,thackeray1 ,le ,sage1 and ,cervantes4 ,these names evoke a world of humorous life in which is missing1 to the knowledge of the spectator1 only the humour which shines in jewels of brief speech and rings in the heavenly onomatopoeia of absurdity4 ,lewis ,carroll and ,oscar ,wilde are decidedly not of that world1 though ,raspe1 by a freak of irony1 graced his brutal pages with lines which the snark-hunter might have coveted1 and ,smollett's elegance in burlesque gravity is dear to an admirer of ,the ,importance of being ,earnest4 ,illustration3 ,lion of the ,party ,from ,george ,cruikshank's ,table ,book1 #ahde4 ,for ,shakespeare1 ,cruikshank seems to have felt a tender reverence4 ,as early as #ahad we find him drawing ,kean as ,richard ,,iii41 and ,hamlet for ,j4 ,roach1 the publisher of ,the ,monthly ,theatrical ,reporter2 #ahae is the date of a lithograph of ,juliet and the ,nurse published by ,g4 ,cruikshank and otherwise unmemorable2 in #ahbg he made one of his ,illustrations of ,time1 a vivacious portrait of ,puck about to girdle the earth4 ,in #aheg-h came the ,cruikshankian series of etchings for ,r4 ,b4 ,brough's ,life of ,sir ,john ,falstaff4 ,this series exhibits great skill and conscientiousness2 the critic of ,the ,art ,journal 7,july #aheh7 was able to suppose them actual scenes4 ,falstaff has a serene and majestic face2 his bulk is too dignified for the scales of a showman2 one understands his aesthetic abhorrence of a mountain of mummy4 ,humour cancels his debt of shame for cowardice1 and well would it have been if that rebellious ,lollard1 ,sir ,john ,oldcastle1 the original of ,falstaff1 could have looked into ,falstaff's roguish eyes as he reclined on the field of ,shrewsbury and peeped at his freedom from all the bigotries which threaten and terrify mankind4 ,cruikshank unconsciously imparts this thought1 but it is with conscience that he is amiable to ,falstaff1 who1 begging1 hiding1 shamming1 facing the music1 and dying1 is his pet and ours by grace of his refined and beautiful art4 ,we meet ,cruikshank's ,falstaff again in the drawing entitled ,the ,first ,appearance of ,william ,shakespeare on the ,stage of the ,globe 7,january #ahfc74 ,here we have the elite of ,shakespeare's creations in a throng about his cradle4 ,titania and ,oberon are at its foot1 as though he owed them birth2 ,touchstone and ,feste try to catch a gleam of laughter from his eyes2 ,prospero waves his wand2 ,othello gazes with hate at the guarded enchanter1 more potent than ,prospero1 who is to bring his woe to light2 ,romeo and ,juliet have eyes only for each other4 ,richard the ,third is there1 sadder than ,lear2 the witches who prophesied the steps of ,macbeth towards hell gesticulate hideously by their cauldron2 and ,falstaff1 cornuted as becomes the deer of ,mrs ,ford1 smiles at a vessel that reminds him1 as do all vessels1 of sack and metheglins4 ,there is charm and beauty of ensemble in this picture1 which ,i have described from a coloured drawing in the ,south ,kensington ,museum made by its designer in #ahfd-e4 ,i know nothing that suggests more forcibly the fatefulness hidden in the inarticulate stranger who appears every day in the world without a history and without a name4 ,illustration3 ,,adams',s ,,visit ,,to ,,parson ,,trulliber4 ,frontispiece to ,joseph ,andrews1 #ahca4 ,the book is dated #ahcb4 ,this is one of the plates in ,illustrations of ,smollett1 ,fielding1 and ,goldsmith 7#ahcb74 ,smollett and ,fielding1 both novelists who present humour as the flower of annoyance and catastrophe1 were hardly to be congratulated when ,cruikshank innocently showed them up in ,illustrations of ,smollett1 ,fielding1 and ,goldsmith 7#ahcb74 ,in both the reader of literature discerns a gentleman4 ,in ,fielding he sees a radiant man of the world from whom literary giants who succeeded him drew nutriment for ambition4 ,both ,smollett and ,fielding have heroines1 and touch men in the nerve of sweetness1 and fell them with love4 ,but ,cruikshank cared naught for their women1 though he reproduced something equivalent to the charm of ,shakespeare's ,merry ,wives4 ,when first he went to ,smollett1 it was for a ,point of ,humour 7#ahbd71 which centres in an irruption of intolerable smells at dinner4 ,the point pricked1 as one may say1 but it was blunt in effect compared with that of a later artist's drawing of ,columbus and the ,egg or that of ,cruikshank's cook swallowing to order in ,land ,sharks and ,sea ,gulls 7#ahch74 ,the really vivid picture is recognised by a lasting imprint on a mind which is incapable of learning ,bradshaw by heart1 and ,cruikshank's drawings for ,smollett are reduced in my mind to ,mrs ,grizzle extracting three black hairs from ,mr ,trunnion1 and his drawings for ,fielding are reduced into the ruined face and rambling fat of ,blear-eyed ,moll4 ,those who will may compare the ,smollett of ,rowlandson with that of ,cruikshank4 ,the comparison may determine whether a dog is funnier while being trodden on or immediately after1 and shows the indifference of ,rowlandson to his artistic reputation4 ,cruikshank's attempts to illustrate ,goldsmith are few and1 as a series1 unsuccessful4 ,the reproduced specimen is a fair example of his realistic method4 ,it exhibits the blackguard's sense of absurdity in the ,christian altruism which paralyses the nerves of the pocket--sensitive usually as the nerves of sex--and which tyrannises over the nerves of pride4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,vicar ,,of ,,wakefield ,,preaching ,,to ,,the ,,prisoners4 ,from ,illustrations of ,popular ,works1 #ahcj4 ,fisher1 ,son1 ,co41 the publishers of ,cruikshank's illustrations of the ,waverley novels 7#ahcf-g-h71 assumed the merit of having been the first to illustrate the scenes of mirth1 of merriment1 of humour1 that often sparkle in these works4 ,in ,landscape ,historical ,illustrations of ,scotland and the ,waverley ,novels he supplied the comic plates2 his ,bailie ,macwheeble rejoicing before ,waverley1 for chapter lxvi4 of ,waverley1 was the first etching done by him on steel4 ,his ,waverley etchings are characteristic works1 sometimes brilliant in pattern or composition1 occasionally ministering to a love of physiognomical ugliness which the small nurses of the dolls called golliwoggs can better explain than ,i4 ,his predilection for the curious and uncanny is shown in some striking plates1 including that in which he depicts the terror of ,dougal and ,hutcheon as they mistake the ape squatting on ,redgauntlet's coffin for the foul fiend in his ain shape4 ,cruikshank's illustrations for ,memoirs of the ,life and ,writings of ,lord ,byron 7#ahbd-e7 are cuts which include such deplorable effects of bathos 7e4g4 ,haidee saving ,don ,juan from her ,father's wrath7 that one has no heart to praise the rough vigour of ,juan opposing the ,entrance to the ,spirit ,room4 ,a ,byron illustrated by protected aborigines seems realisable after seeing these pictures4 ,if anybody paid the artist for them it should have been ,wordsworth2 that they did not weigh on ,cruikshank's conscience1 we may infer from the fact that in #ahcc he cheerfully caricatured ,byron for ,rejected ,addresses as a gentleman in an easy-chair kicking the terrestrial globe4 ,we have already discussed the fruit of ,cruikshank's association with ,dickens4 ,we have not1 however1 paid tribute to ,cruikshank's capital etchings for ,memoirs of ,joseph ,grimaldi1 edited by ,boz 7#ahch74 ,the portrait of the famous clown holding in his arms a hissing goose and a squeaking pig1 while voluble ducks protrude their heads from his pockets and a basket of carrots and turnips afflicts his back1 is extraordinarily funny4 ,though ,cruikshank's relations with ,thackeray were far happier than with ,dickens1 they resulted in nothing important to his reputation4 ,his etchings illustrating ,thackeray's contributions to ,the ,comic ,almanack 7#ahci-dj7 weary one with plain or uninteresting faces1 though that which exhibits the expressive blubber-face of ,stubbs1 horsed for the birching earned by his usury1 provokes an irrational smile which serves for praise4 ,his illustrations to ,a ,legend of the ,rhine 7,thackeray's contribution to ,george ,cruikshank's ,table-,book1 #ahde7 are not equal to ,thackeray's drawings for ,the ,rose and the ,ring 7#ahee74 ,illustration3 ,,pro-,,di-,,gi-,,ous6 7,dominie ,sampson in ,guy ,mannering71 ,landscape-,historical ,illustrations of ,scotland and the ,waverley ,novels1 #ahcf4 ,in the world of humour one does not descend in moving from ,thackeray to ,charles ,james ,lever4 ,with ,lever's own portrait of his hero to guide him1 ,cruikshank illustrated ,arthur ,o',leary 7#ahdd74 ,among his ten etchings in this novel is an amusing exhibition of ,corpulence submitting to identification by measurement2 it surpasses the scene by ,du ,maurier in which the tailor promises to be round in a minute if his customer will press one end of the tape-measure to his waist4 ,cruikshank's ten etchings for ,gil ,blas 7#ahcc7 are the works of an intelligent machine1 which may be called humorous because it takes down the fact that ,dame ,jacintha held the cup to the ,canon's mouth as if he had been an infant4 ,r4 ,smirke1 ,r4,a41 with his sympathetic eye for flesh 7as of a gardener for flowers7 is obviously preferable to ,cruikshank as ,le ,sage's illustrator1 though our artist's ,euphrasia is a dainty miss4 ,cruikshank's fifteen illustrations for ,don ,quixote 7#ahcc-cd7 are neat and for the most part uninspired renderings of pathological humour4 ,although it was within his ability to make a readable picture without words1 he merely reminds one of the anecdote of the attack on the wind-mills4 ,compare the plate referred to with the painting on the same subject by ,jose ,moreno ,carbonaro4 ,cruikshank's combatant is no more than a knight about to attack something--presumably a wind-mill4 ,carbonaro chooses the moment that exposes the knight as mad1 futile1 dismally droll1 and we see him and his horse in the air1 the latter enough to make ,pegasus hiccup with laughter4 ,cruikshank's designs for ,don ,quixote compare favourably1 however1 with the audacious scratches which constitute most of his brother ,robert's chronicle of the ,knight of ,la ,mancha 7#ahbd74 ,the collector who affords a crown to buy the former designs should also acquire ,rambles in the ,footsteps of ,don ,quixote1 by ,h4 ,d4 ,inglis1 with six etchings by ,george ,cruikshank 7#ahcg74 ,the etchings--three of which are perfect anecdotes--were evidently done con amore2 but1 good as they are1 they were lucky if they satisfied an editor who believed ,inglis's ,new ,gil ,blas to be one of the noblest and most finished efforts in the line of pure imaginative writing that ever fell from the pen of any one man4 ,illustration3 ,,don ,,quixote ,,and ,,sancho ,,returning ,,home4 ,from ,the ,history and ,adventures of the ,renowned ,don ,quixote1 #ahcc4 ,it would be a species of literary somnambulism to wander further in a path of bibliography where ideas must be taken as they come instead of being ideally chosen and grouped4 ,there is this mischief in ,cruikshank's fecundity1 that it tends to convert even a fairly bright critic into a scolytus boring his way through a catalogue4 ,we emerge from our burrowing more percipient than before of the speculative nature of the undertaking to illustrate illustrious works of imagination4 ,sinking in competitive humour is akin to drowning2 for he who materialises images despatched to the mind's eye by literary genius incurs the risk of having his work not only excelled by images in the eyes of minds other than his own1 but ignored in compliment to them4 ,fortunate1 then1 is ,cruikshank in the fact that on the whole we do not regret the healthy industrialism which permitted him to illustrate so many examples of imaginative literature4 ,the reader to whom any appearance of digression is displeasing in art will now kindly believe that only a second has elapsed since he began the only complete paragraph of page #ahc4 ,the scolytus is converted1 and we return to our true viewpoint--the middle of a heterogeneous litter--and look for characteristics of ,cruikshankian humour4 ,illustration3 ,,new ,,readings4 ,the ,irishman tries to read a reversed sign by standing on his head4 ,from ,the ,humourist1 vol4 iv41 #ahba4 ,we have seen so much of ,cruikshank's kingdom of supernature that it is scarcely necessary to revisit it4 ,the reader will note1 however1 that the degradation of the terrible to the absurd is his chief humorous idea of supernature1 and that he respects the seriousness of fairy tales4 ,not even the burlesque metaphors of ,giambattista ,basile--that monkey of genius among the euphuists--tempts him to ridicule the stories in ,il ,pentamerone2 no one less than ,milton can banish the ridiculous from his idea of ,satan4 ,a ,satan who is a little lower than ,punch1 is he not more absurd than ,man figured as a little lower than the angels8 ,he is both more absurd and more satisfactory4 ,out of the folklore of ,iceland and ,wales and ,normandy he comes to us outwitted by mortals who seem paradoxically to think that the ,father of lies has a right to their adherence to the letter of their agreements with him4 ,out of ,cruikshank's caricature he comes to us with a tail capable of delineating a whole alphabet of humour4 ,the fire which he and his demons can live in without consumption becomes jocose4 ,if you doubt it1 compare ,cruikshank's etching for ,douglas ,jerrold's story1 ,the ,mayor of ,hole-cum-,corner 7#ahdb71 with his etching1 ,sing old ,rose and burn the ,bellows in ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahbh74 ,the human-looking demon with his left leg in the flabbergasted mayor's fire is much funnier in effect than the negro sailor boiling the kettle over his wooden leg4 ,human terror at superiority over natural law is highly ludicrous when the superiority is evinced as though it were ordinary1 negligible1 and compatible with sociableness4 ,we cannot now say of such humour that it is a revelation1 though once it was brighter than all the fires of ,smithfield4 ,there are foes of peace which in ,cruikshank's simplicity he thought of as good4 ,for these1 too1 there is a ,humour to keep them at bay1 until ,science delivers us from their evil by making them obsequious to all who see them4 ,when ,humour pretends to drop from the supernatural to the commonplace1 it--,i cannot for the moment persuade myself to write he or she--is about to continue its most important mission1 for it deserts a subject which is naturally laughable for one which is not2 it goes from the supernatural to the commonplace4 ,the supernatural is naturally laughable because the human animal instinctively laughs at that which at once transcends and addresses his intelligence1 on a principle similar perhaps to that which ,schopenhauer acted on when he smiled at the angle formed by the tangent and the circumference of a circle4 ,at the commonplace1 however1 the human animal never spontaneously laughs4 ,its staleness is not dire to him2 but negativeness is not good1 and ,cruikshank helps the commonplace to be his friend4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,wits ,,magazine 7#b vols41 #ahah7 is one of the rarest books illustrated by ,g4 ,cruikshank4 ,a perfect copy is said to be worth ,l#hj4 ,another rendering by him of the above incident will be found in ,the ,humourist1 vol4 iv4 7#ahba7 ,when we view the demeanour of ,cruikshank towards the commonplace we are agreeably surprised by his agility and daring4 ,for instance1 take a book called ,talpa1 by ,c4 ,w4 ,hoskyns 7#aheb74 ,it is a narrative of agricultural operations1 in the course of which the author says1 ,the worst-laid tile is the measure of the goodness and permanence of the whole drain1 just as the weakest link of a chain is the measure of its strength4 ,cruikshank1 not being in the mood for drawing a drain1 depicts a watchdog who has broken his chain's weakest link and is enthusiastically rushing towards an intruder whose most bitable tissues are reluctantly offered to him in the attempt to scale a wall4 ,the hackneyed metaphor thus obviously illustrated being valueless on the page where we find it1 our smile is for the cheek of the artist in calling attention to it rather than for the humour of the drawing as an exhibition of funk and glee4 ,thus the obvious marries the obvious1 and the result is what is called originality4 ,again1 what is more commonplace in its effect on the mind than decoration as viewed on wall-paper1 frames1 and linoleum1 and in all those devices which flatter ,nature's alleged abhorrence of vacuum8 ,it is unhealthy to observe their repetitiousness4 ,cruikshank1 however1 saw that to be amusing where the utmost demanded is an inoffensive filling of vacancy was to triumph against dulness in its own sanctum4 ,consequently in the decorations above and below the main designs in ,the ,humourist 7#ahai-bj7 an appropriate hilarity animates effects which do not frustrate the decorative idea of announcing the completeness of the pictures of which they are the crown and base4 ,his treatment of title-pages is delightfully droll4 ,thus the title-page of ,my ,sketch ,book 7#ahcd7 takes the form of a portrait of himself1 with a nose like the extinguisher of a candlestick1 directing the posing of the required capital letters on the shelves of a proscenium4 ,on the title page of ,the ,comic ,almanac 7#ahce7 the letter ,l is a man sitting sideways with his legs stretched horizontally together1 and on the title-page of ,the ,pentamerone 7#ahdh7 the polysyllable becomes the teeth of an abnormal king4 ,studies by ,cruikshank in the ,south ,kensington ,museum 7#iiej-,t7 show that he imagined the letter ,m as two ,chinamen united by their pigtails1 which form the ,v between the perpendiculars of that letter1 and are also employed as a hammock4 ,this play with the alphabet is exhibited as early as #ahbh in ,the ,pursuit of ,letters1 where all the letters in the word ,literature flee1 on legs as thin as the track of ,euclid's point1 from philomathic dogs1 while their brethren ,a ,b ,c attempt to escape from three such babes as might have sprung from the foreheads of men made out of the dust of encyclopaedias4 ,as late as ,july #ahgd1 in reply to a coaxing letter from ,george ,s4 ,nottage1 we see ,cruikshank making human figures of the letters of the word ,portraits4 ,illustration3 while he spake a braying ass ,did sing most loud and clear4--,william ,cowper4 ,from ,the ,diverting ,history of ,john ,gilpin1 #ahbh4 ,an earlier design by ,cruikshank for ,john ,gilpin is in ,the ,humourist1 vol4 iii4 7#ahai74 #ahcf is the date borne by a new edition of ,w4 ,a4 ,nield's very monotonous musical setting of ,john ,gilpin1 illustrated by ,cruikshank 7presumably ,robert74 ,we return now to the zoological humour which has flashed across these pages4 ,in the ,united ,states the art of humanising the creatures of instinct to make them articulately droll has been practised with such success by ,gus ,dirks1 ,j4 ,s4 ,pughe1 and ,a4 ,z4 ,baker1 that if ,noah's ,ark is not too denominational1 it is there that we should seek the origin of their humour4 ,cruikshank1 though he did re-draw ,william ,clarke's swimming duck holding up an umbrella 7in ,three ,courses and a ,dessert1 #ahcj71 achieved nothing so triumphantly zoological as the ostrich who swallowed her medicine but forgot to uncork the bottle containing it1 or the porcupine who asked a barber for a shampoo1 or the cat who discovered that her ,thomas was leading a tenth life1 or the elephant who wondered how the stork managed to convey him to his parents1 or the beetle-farmer who mowed a hairbrush4 ,cruikshank1 however1 was in the ,ark before them1 and brought back enough humour resembling theirs to show what he missed1 besides humour of a different kind which they do not excel4 ,in ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahbi7 he preceded the ,americans in the humour which makes the horse the critic of the motor-car1 though not in that which seems to make the motor-car the caricaturist of the horse2 and in the above-named publication he represents a dog in the act of prophesying cheap meat for the canine race4 ,again1 in ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahcb7 two elephants laugh together over a pseudopun on the word trunk4 ,illustration3 ,when the ,elephant stands upon his ,head1 does he himself know whether he is standing upon his ,head or his ,heels8 ,george ,cruikshank's ,magazine1 ,february #ahed4 ,we are not1 however1 reminded of ,america by the inquiry printed below the elephant on the next page1 which might well have surprised ,lewis ,carroll by resemblance more than all the works of ,mr ,g4 ,e4 ,farrow4 ,neither does ,america recognise the silence of her own laughter in those drawings in which ,cruikshank caricatures humanity under zoological likenesses4 ,his alderman realising ,haynes ,bayly's wish to be a butterfly in ,my ,sketch ,book 7#ahce72 his coleopteral beadle in ,george ,cruikshank's ,omnibus 7#ahdb71 are simple attempts to make tours de force of what is rather obscurely called the obvious1 and one realises that art can find itself strong in embracing feeble idea4 ,the most striking of his zoological ideas is the effect of abnormal behaviour on human people4 ,witness in ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahcb7 the dreadful tail unfolded in the dialogue3 ,doth he woggle his tail8 ,yes1 he does4 ,then ,i be a dead mon6 ,one may also cite the horror of the diver at the rising in air of a curly and vociferous salmon from the dish in front of him 7ibid474 ,among all his drawings of animals 7those for ,grimm excepted7 there is one etching which stands out as a technical triumph produced by a sense of irony4 ,i refer to the etching entitled ,the ,cat ,did ,it6 in ,the ,greatest ,plague of ,life 7#ahdg74 ,fifteen pussies in a kitchen throw the crockery off the dresser1 topple the draped clothes-horse into the fire1 smash the window glass and devour the provisions4 ,the scene is like a burlesque of one of its designer's etchings in ,maxwell's ,irish ,rebellion4 ,it is unique4 ,we must not quit ,cruikshank's zoological drawings without remarking on the curious inconsistency of his attitude towards animals4 ,we find him both callous and tender4 ,in illustrating ,the ,adventures of ,baron ,munchausen he chose 7one assumes7 to draw the ,baron flaying the fox by flagellation2 at any rate we have his wood-cut depicting the abominable operation2 and in ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahcb71 poor ,reynard1 for the sake of a pun1 is exhibited as ,tenant intail of a spring-trap4 ,yet in ,my ,sketch ,book 7#ahce7 he presents us with frogs expostulating with small boys for throwing stones at them 7,i pray you to cease1 my little ,dears6 for though it may be sport to you1 it is death to us74 ,again1 his canine reference to cats' meat1 already mentioned1 implies a heartlessness towards horses which is contradicted by his touching but not much prized etching ,the ,knackers ,yard1 to be found in ,the ,voice of ,humanity 7,may #ahca71 in ,the ,melange 7#ahcd71 and in ,the ,elysium of ,animals 7#ahcf74 ,moreover1 in ,my ,sketch ,book 7#ahce7 he severely exhibits human insensitiveness to the sufferings of quadrupeds in ,the ,omnibus ,brutes--qy4 which are they8 ,it is therefore clear that ,cruikshank thought humanely about animals1 though as a humorist he was irresponsible and gave woe's present to ease--its comicality4 ,and before we write him down a vulgarian let us remember our share in his laughter at the absurdity of incarnations which confer tails on elemental furies and indecencies1 and compel elemental importances and respectabilities to satisfy their self-love by ruinous grimaces and scaffoldings of adipose tissue4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,cat ,,did ,,it6 ,from ,the ,greatest ,plague in ,life 7#ahdg74 ,in a comparison ,i have already associated ,cruikshank with ,lewis ,carroll1 who was systematically the finest humorist produced by ,england till his death in #ahih4 ,the most intensely comic thing ever wrought by the hand of ,cruikshank is1 ,i think1 by the absolute perfection of its reasoning a priori1 a genuine carroll in a minor key4 ,it is the drawing in ,scraps and ,sketches 7#ahcb7 in which1 to a haughty1 unamused commander1 the complainant says1 ,please1 your ,honor1 ,tom ,towzer has tied my tail so tight that ,i can't shut my eyes4 ,one of ,cruikshank's humorous ideas is particularly his own1 because it satisfies his passionate industry4 ,i mean those processions of images which he summoned by the enchantment of single central ideas4 ,the ,triumph of ,cupid in ,george ,cruikshank's ,table ,book 7#ahde7 is as perfect an example as ,i can cite4 ,cruikshank is seated by a fire with his little pet dog ,lilla on his lap4 ,from the pipe he is smoking ascends and curls around him a world of symbolic life4 ,the car of the boy-god is drawn by lions and tigers4 ,another cupid stands menacingly on a pleading ,turk2 a third cupid is the tyrant over a negro under ,cruikshank's chair2 a fourth cupid1 sitting on ,cruikshank's left foot1 toasts a heart at the fire office2 more cupids are dragging ,time backwards on the mantelpiece1 and another is stealing his scythe4 ,consummate ability is shown in the delicate technique of this etching1 which was succeeded as an example of multum in parvo by the well-known folding etching ,passing ,events or the ,tail of the ,comet of #ahec1 appearing in ,george ,cruikshank's ,magazine 7,february #ahed74 ,illustration3 ,,title ,,page ,,of ,,illustrations ,,of ,,time1 #ahbg ,this drawing borrows idea from ,gillray1 as also does the frontispiece by ,cruikshank to ,angelo's ,picnic 7#ahcd74 ,compare ,gillray's ,john ,bull taking a ,luncheon 7#agih74 ,playing on words is very characteristic of ,cruikshank's humour4 ,thus he shows us parenthetical legs1 as ,dickens wittily called them1 by the side of those of a friend in-kneed1 and a man 7dumbly miserable7 arrested on a rope-walk is taken in tow4 ,viewing ,cruikshank at this game does not help one to endorse the statement of ,thomas ,love ,peacock1 inspired by the drawing of ,january in ,the ,comic ,almanack 7#ahch71 ,a great philosopher art thou1 ,george ,cruikshank1 ,in thy unmatched grotesqueness1 for a philosopher is a systematiser and a punster is an anarchist4 ,but we do not need him as a philosopher or as an ,importance of any kind4 ,what we see and accept as philosophy in him is the appropriation of misery for that ,gargantuan meal of humour to which his ,time sits down4 ,yet in that philosophy it is certain that ironists and pessimists excel him4 ,an entomologist as generous in classification as ,mr ,swinburne1 author of ,under the ,microscope1 will now observe me in the process of being re-transformed into a scolytus4 ,impossible6 cries the reader who remembers my repentance on page #bjc4 ,but ,i say ,inevitable4 ,since ,i had the courage to bore my way through a catalogue of famous books illustrated humorously by ,cruikshank1 ,i feel it my duty to bid the reader look at a list of works of which he should acquire all the italicised items1 in such editions as he can afford1 if he wishes to know ,cruikshank's humour as they know it who call him ,the ,great ,george4 ,the ,humourist 7#d vols41 #ahai-bj74 ,german ,popular ,stories 7#b vols41 #ahbc-d74 ,points of ,humour 7#b vols41 #ahbc-d74 ,mornings at ,bow ,street 7#ahbd74 ,greenwich ,hospital 7#ahbf74 ,more ,mornings at ,bow ,street 7#ahbg74 ,phrenological ,illustrations 7#ahbf74 ,illustrations of ,time 7#ahbg74 ,scraps and ,sketches 7#d parts and one plate of an unpublished #eth part1 #ahbh-i1 #ahca-b1 #ahcd74 ,my ,sketch ,book 7#i numbers1 with plates dated #ahcc1 #ahcd1 #ahce74 ,punch and ,judy 7#ahbh74 ,three ,courses and a ,dessert 7#ahcj74 ,cruikshankiana 7#ahce74 ,the ,loving ,ballad of ,lord ,bateman 7#ahci74 ,george ,cruikshank's ,omnibus 7#i parts1 #ahda-b74 ,the ,bachelor's ,own ,book 7#ahdd74 ,george ,cruikshank's ,table ,book 7#ab numbers1 #ahde74 ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library 7#d parts1 #ahec-d1 #ahfd74 ,george ,cruikshank's ,magazine 7#b numbers1 #ahed74 ,this list reminds us that1 though ,cruikshank often conferred a bibliophile's immortality upon authors more writative1 to quote the ,earl of ,rochester1 than inspired1 he was sometimes the means of arresting great literary merit on its way to oblivion4 ,a case in point is ,william ,clarke's ,three ,courses and a ,dessert1 a book of racy stories containing droll and exquisite cuts by ,cruikshank1 after rude sketches by its author1 who did ,cruikshank the service of accusing him in ,the ,cigar 7#ahbe7 of being stubbornly modest for half an hour4 ,again1 we owe to ,cruikshank our knowledge of ,the ,adventures of ,sir ,frizzle ,pumpkin2 ,nights at ,mess2 and ,other ,tales 7#ahcf71 a work of which ,i will only say that its anonymous narrative of good luck in cowardice won a smile from one of the most lovable of poets on the day she died4 ,illustration3 ,the ,turk's only daughter approaches to mitigate the sufferings of ,lord ,bateman4 ,the ,loving ,ballad of ,lord ,bateman1 #ahci4 ,the ,loving ,ballad of ,lord ,bateman is one of the puzzles of literature4 ,mr ,andrew ,lang decides that it is a volkslied1 to which1 for the version of it illustrated by ,cruikshank1 ,thackeray contributed the notes considered by some to be by ,dickens4 ,mr ,blanchard ,jerrold thinks nobody but ,thackeray could have written the lines about this young bride's mother ,who never was heard to speak so free1 and ,i think that the notes are ,thackeray's1 and the ballad an example of a class of literature from which ,thackeray drew comic inspiration4 ,cruikshank heard it sung outside a wine vaults 7sic7 at ,battle ,bridge by a young gentleman called ,the ,tripe-skewer4 ,the ballad became part of ,cruikshank's repertory4 ,mr ,walter ,hamilton states that ,cruikshank sang ,lord ,bateman in the presence of ,dickens and ,thackeray at a dinner of the ,antiquarian ,society1 with the ,cockney mal-pronunciations he had heard given to it by a street ballad-singer4 ,he adds that ,thackeray expressed a wish1 which he allowed ,cruikshank to sterilise1 to print the ballad with illustrations4 ,we may therefore suppose1 despite the omission of the notes to ,lord ,bateman from the ,biographical ,edition of ,thackeray's works1 that they are by the author of ,the ,ballad of ,eliza ,davis4 ,cruikshank1 overflowing with lacteal kindness1 added three verses to the loving ballad as he heard it1 in which the bride who yields place to the ,turk's daughter is married to the proud porter4 ,cruikshank's etchings are charmingly naive and expressive4 ,the bibliophool pays eight guineas for a first edition1 minus the shading of the trees in the plate entitled ,the ,proud ,young ,porter in ,lord ,bateman's ,state ,apartment4 ,the ,bachelor's ,own ,book is a story told in pictures and footlines1 both by the artist4 ,the hero is ,mr ,lambkin1 gent1 a podgy-nosed prototype of ,juggins1 who amuses himself by the nocturnal removal of knockers and duly appears in the police court1 but is ultimately led to domestic felicity by the dreary spectacle of a confirmed bachelor alone in an immense salon of the ,grand ,mausoleum ,club4 ,some of the etchings--notably ,mr ,lambkin feebly revolting against his medicine--are mirth-provoking1 and his various swaggering attitudes are well-imagined4 ,cruikshankiana conveniently presents a number of ,george ,cruikshank's caricatures in reprints about a decade older than the plates4 ,the preface solemnly but with ludicrous inaccuracy states that in each etching a stern moral is afforded1 and that in the most powerful and attractive manner4 ,we are now brought to the conclusion of our most important chapter4 ,will ,cruikshank's humour live8 or1 rather1 may it live8 for things live centuries without permission1 and the fright of ,little ,miss ,muffet is more remembered than the terror of ,melmoth4 ,the answer should be ,yes from all who acknowledge beauty in the sparkle of evil and of good4 ,no humorist worthy of that forbidden fruit which made thieves of all mankind can refrain from the laughter which is paid for by another4 ,mark ,twain1 who has nerves to thrill for martyred ,joan of ,arc1 delights in the epitaph1 ,well done1 good and faithful servant1 pronounced over the frizzled corpse of a negro cook4 ,lowell1 the poet1 extracted a pun from the blind eyes of ,milton4 ,punch1 in #aije1 amused us with the boy who supposed that horses were made of cats' meat1 and in #aije ,sir ,francis ,burnand thought that the most humorous pictorial joke published by him in ,punch was ,phil ,may's drawing of a fisherman being invited to enter the ,dottyville ,lunatic ,asylum4 ,there is heroism as well as vulgarity in laughter saluting death and patience1 hippophagy and cannibalism1 ugliness and deprivation4 ,he is a wise man who sees smiling mouths in the rents of ruin and the spaces between the ribs of the skeleton angel4 ,humour1 irresponsible and purposeless1 is of eternity1 and to me 7at least7 it is the one masterful human energy in the world to-day4 ,it is against compassion and importance and remorse and horror and blame1 but it is not for cruelty1 or for indifference to distress4 ,nothing exists so separate from truth and falsehood and right and wrong4 ,nothing is more instant in pure appeal to the intellect1 no blush is more sincere than that of the person who before company cannot see a joke4 ,humorists are dear to the critic because they criticise by re-making in the world of idea the things they criticise4 ,among them ,cruikshank is dearer than some1 less dear than others4 ,through the regency and reign of the eldest son of ,george the ,third he1 even more than ,cobbett1 seems to me the historian of genius1 by virtue of prodigious merriment in vulgar art4 ,the great miscellany of humour which he poured out revitalises his name whenever it is examined by the family of ,john ,bull4 ,for it is his own humour--the humour of one who had the power to appropriate without disgrace because he was himself an ,original4 ,,vii ,our classification of ,cruikshank's works has enabled us to see the objective range of his artistic personality4 ,a few words must now be said of the media in which he worked4 ,of these media the principal was etching4 ,o6 ,i've seen ,etching6 exclaims ,cruikshank in #ahei2 it's easy enough1 you only rub some black stuff over the copper plate1 and then take an etching needle1 and scratch away a bit--and then clap on some a-ke-ta-ke 7otherwise aquafortis7--and there you are6 ,wash the steel1 he says in another of his quaint revelations1 with a solution of copper in ,nitrous acid--to tarnish the tarnation ,bright steel before ,etching1 to save the eyes4 ,illustration3 ,,norna ,,despatching ,,the ,,provisions4 ,illustrates ,the ,pirate1 by ,sir ,walter ,scott1 in ,landscape-,historical ,illustrations of ,scotland1 and the ,waverley ,novels1 #ahch4 ,in his #ggth year he says3 ,i am working away as hard as ever at water color drawings and paintings in oil1 doing as little ,etching as possible as that is very slavish work4 ,as he had etched about #bgjj designs when he made this statement1 it is impossible not to sympathise with his recreative change of medium4 ,it must be remembered that1 except in dry-point etching1 the bite of the acid is trusted to engrave the design of the needle and that1 when the stronger lines are obtained by allowing the acid to act for a longer time on a particular part or parts of the etched plate1 the mechanical work1 and work of calculation1 imposed upon the etcher is formidable4 ,until1 in the late seventies of the nineteenth century1 the invasion of the process-block gave manual freedom to the bookseller's artist1 that individual was continually sighing over the complexity of the method by which he paid the tribute of his imagination to ,mammon4 ,in the hands of the wood-engraver an artist's unengraved work was apparently always liable to the danger of misrepresentation unless the artist engraved it himself4 ,even the great ,john ,thompson is not free from the suspicion of having unconsciously assisted demon printers in transforming into little dirty scratches some designs by ,daniel ,maclise1 whose expressions are preserved in this sentence4 ,cruikshank who1 if we add his woodcuts to his etchings1 saw upwards of #djjj designs by him given with laborious indirectness to the world1 would have been more than human if he had considered his unskilfulness in the art of producing and employing the colours between black and white as a reason for refraining from painting in oils4 ,in #ahec he entered as a student at the ,royal ,academy2 but his industry1 in the role of a pupil of #fj1 was1 it seems1 less than his humility1 for he made very few drawings in the ,antique1 says ,mr ,charles ,landseer1 and never got into the ,life4 ,cruikshank1 however1 had exhibited in the ,royal ,academy as early as #ahcj1 and in #ahdh he dared to paint for the ,prince ,consort the picture entitled ,disturbing the ,congregation4 ,this picture of a boy in church looking passionately unconscious of the fact that his sacrilegious pegtop is lying on the grave of a knight in full view of the beadle1 is an anecdote painted more for ,god to laugh at than for ,christians of the so-called nineteenth century1 but a philosophic sightseer like myself rejoices in it4 ,this picture and ,the ,fairy ,ring1 already praised1 reveal ,cruikshank's talent sufficiently to prevent one from regretting that he ultimately preferred covering canvases to furrowing plates4 ,illustration3 7a7 ,,crusoe',s ,,farmhouse4 7b7 ,,crusoe ,,in ,,his ,,island ,,home4 ,from ,robinson ,crusoe1 #ahca4 ,to do him justice he was academically interested in the whole technique of pictorial art as practised in his day4 ,he admitted1 for instance1 to ,charles ,hancock1 the sole inventor and producer of blocks by the process known as ',etching on ,glass1' that if this invention had come earlier before him it would have altered the whole character of his drawing1 though the designs which he produced by ,hancock's process--the first of which was completed in ,april #ahfd--;include nothing of importance4 ,we will not further linger over the media of reproduction employed by our artist1 but summon a few ideas suggested by the vision we have had of him sitting like a schoolboy in the schoolroom of the ,royal ,academy4 ,as a draughtsman he had been professorial in #ahag when he published with ,s4 ,w4 ,fores two plates entitled ,striking ,effects produced by lines and dots for the assistance of young draftsmen1 wherein he showed1 like ,hogarth1 the amount of pictorial information which an artist can convey by a primitively simple method4 ,he was professorial1 too1 when in #ahfe he attempted to put in perspective a twelve mile giant taking a stride of six miles1 on a plate #f inches long and #c-c_/e inches broad1 and informed the publisher of ,popular ,romances of the ,west of ,england 7#ahfe7 that about #ahbe he had attempted to put in perspective the ,miltonic ,satan whose body ,prone on the flood1 extended long and large1 ,lay floating many a rood4 ,cruikshank's greatest enemy was his mannerism which may even delude the pessimist of scant acquaintance with him into the idea that it imperfectly disguises an inability to draw up to the standard of ,vere ,foster4 ,the ,cruikshankian has merely to direct the attention of such a person to the frontispiece executed by ,cruikshank for ,t4 ,j4 ,pettigrew's ,history of ,egyptian ,mummies 7#ahcd74 ,if a man can draw well in the service of science his mannerism is the accomplishment of an intention4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,veterans4 ,from ,songs1 ,naval and ,national1 of the late ,charles ,dibden1 #ahda4 ,ruskin said that ,cruikshank's works were often much spoiled by a curiously mistaken type of face1 divided so as to give too much to the mouth and eyes and leave too little for forehead1 and yet there is extant a curious ,,ms4 note by ,cruikshank to the effect that ,mr ,ruskin's eyes were in the wrong ,place and not set properly in his head1 showing that ,cruikshank was a student of even a patron's physiognomy and suggesting that1 if ,ruskin had roamed in ,cruikshank's ,london he would have convicted the artist of a malady of imitativeness4 ,it must be remembered that he repeatedly drew recognisable portraits of his contemporaries2 indeed he was so far from being a realist devoted to libel that ,mr ,layard confides to us that various studies by ,george ,cruikshank of the great ,george would1 he thinks1 have resulted in an undue sublimation had completion ever been attained4 ,yet the sublimation of the respectable is precisely the rosy view of ,cruikshank the man enjoyed by me at the present moment4 ,he is ,captain of the #bdth ,surrey ,rifle ,volunteers2 he is ,vice-,president of the ,london ,temperance ,league4 ,he sketches a beautiful palace as a pastime4 ,he is in the same ballroom as ,queen ,victoria1 and ,her ,majesty bows to him4 ,withal he is sturdy and declines the ,prince ,consort's offer for his collection of works by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,in the end ,st ,paul's ,cathedral receives him1 and the person who knew him most intimately declares on enduring stone that she loved him best4 ,illustration3 ,,vignette4 ,from ,peeps at ,life1 by the ,london ,hermit 7,london3 ,simpkin1 ,marshall ,co471 engraved by ,bolton1 #ahge4 ,we are now at the end1 and cannot stimulate the muse of our prose to further efforts4 ,she being silent obliges our blunt ,british voice to speak for itself4 ,inasmuch as ,cruikshank was a mannerist1 he is inimitable except by them who take great pains to vex the critical of mankind4 ,inasmuch as he expressed the beauty of crookedness1 as though he found the secret of artistic success in punning on his own name1 he offers a model worthy of practical study4 ,his fame as an etcher is too loud to be lost in the silence of ,henri ,beraldi1 who enumerated ,les graveurs du dix-neuvieme siecle1 in #ab tomes 7#ahhe-ahib71 without mentioning his name4 ,though ,c is more employed in the initials of words than any other letter in our alphabet1 the name of ,cruikshank comes only after ,curious in its attractiveness for the readers of entries under the letter ,c in ,english catalogues of second-hand books4 ,it may be that to etchings in books of ,cruikshank's period is ascribed1 since the usurpation of the process-block1 the factitious value of curios1 and that he1 ,beraldi's ,great ,omitted1 profits thereby4 ,it is a fact that he is collected like postage-stamps1 though no published work of his has attained the price per copy of the imperforate twopenny ,mauritius of #ahdg4 ,but we have descended to a comparison so unfortunate in its logical consequences that it is well to prophesy the immortality of ,cruikshank from other than commercial tokens4 ,those tokens exist in the undying praises of ,dickens1 ,thackeray1 ,christopher ,north1 and ,ruskin1 in the enormous work of his principal bibliographer ,george ,william ,reid1 and1 not least to the spiritual eye1 in the permanence of the impression made by a few of his designs on a memory that has forgotten a little of that literary art which is the only atonement offered by its owner to the world for all the irony of his requickened life4 ,,annotated ,,bibliographical ,,index ,numbers referring to illustrations are in larger type4 ,the titles of illustrations are in italics1 the titles of books and periodicals in inverted commas4 ,an article or demonstrative adjective in parenthesis in the first line of an entry indicates that the article parenthesised begins the title of the subject of that entry4 ,achilles in ,hyde ,park1 #aga4 ,see ,brazen1 ,ladies1 ,making4 ,acton1 ,john ,adams4 ,see ,cruikshank1 ,george4 ,adam-tilers4 ,an ,adam-tiler is a receiver of stolen goods1 a pickpocket1 a fence1 #ajc4 ,adventures 7,the7 of ,gil ,blas of ,santillane4 ,translated from the ,french of ,lesage1 by ,t4 ,smollett1 ,m4,d4 ,to which is prefixed a memoir of the author1 by ,thomas ,roscoe4 ,illustrated by ,george ,cruikshank and ,k4 ,meadows 7#b vols41 ,london3 ,effingham ,wilson1 #ahcc2 being vols4 xvi4 and xvii4 of ,the ,novelist's ,library1 edited by ,thomas ,roscoe1 with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank71 #aii4 ,adventures 7,the7 of ,joseph ,andrews1 by ,henry ,fielding1 ,esq41 with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,james ,cochrane ,co41 #ahcb4 ,it is vol4 vii4 of ,the ,novelist's ,library3 edited by ,thomas ,roscoe1 ,esq41 with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank71 #ahi4 ,adventures 7,the7 of ,sir ,frizzle ,pumpkin2 ,nights at ,mess2 and ,other ,tales4 ,with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank 7,william ,blackwood ,sons1 ,edinburgh2 and ,t4 ,cadell1 ,strand1 ,london1 #ahcf4 ,the author is ,rev4 ,james ,white74 #bca4 ,a4 ,e4 7,george ,russell71 #afa4 ,a ,going6 ,a ,going6 ,the ,last ,time ,a ,going666 7print pub4 #ab ,april #ahba by ,g4 ,humphrey71 #be4 ,ainsworth1 ,william ,harrison1 #gg1 #ha4 ,see ,ainsworth's1 ,artist1 ,guy ,fawkes1 ,jack ,sheppard1 ,miser's1 ,rookwood1 ,saint ,james's1 ,sir ,lionel1 ,tower1 ,windsor4 ,ainsworth's ,magazine3 a ,miscellany of ,romance1 ,general ,literature1 and ,art4 ,edited by ,william ,harrison ,ainsworth 7illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank appear in the first #f vols4 and the #ith vol4 ,guy ,fawkes was reprinted with ,cruikshank's etchings in vols4 xvi4 xvii4 in #ahdi and #ahej4 ,the first #i vols4 were published in ,london by successively ,hugh ,cunningham1 #ahdb2 ,cunningham ,mortimer1 #ahdb-ahdc2 ,john ,mortimer1 #ahdc-ahde2 ,henry ,colburn1 #ahde2 ,chapman ,hall1 #ahdf71 #hf1 #hg1 #ij1 #ia1 #ic1 #acg4 ,akerman1 ,john ,yonge1 #abe1 #abf4 ,see ,gentleman4 ,albert1 ,prince 7the ,prince ,consort1 born #ahai1 died #ahfa71 #dd1 #bdj1 #bdh4 ,see ,original4 ,albert ,memorial1 #dc4 ,alfieri1 #gb4 ,almanack4 ,see ,comic ,almanack4 ,alphabet4 #baa-bab4 ,see ,comic ,alphabet4 ,andersen1 ,hans ,christian1 #cf4 ,angelo's ,picnic2 or1 ,table ,talk1 including numerous ,recollections of ,public ,characters1 who have figured in some part or another of the stage of life for the last fifty years2 forming an endless variety of talent1 amusement1 and interest1 calculated to please every person fond of ,biographical ,sketches and ,anecdotes4 ,written by ,himself4444 ,in addition to which are several original literary contributions from the following ,distinguished ,authors3--,colman1 ,theodore ,hook1 ,bulwer1 ,horace ,smith1 ,mrs ,radcliffe1 ,miss ,jane ,porter1 ,mrs ,hall1 ,kenny1 ,peake1 ,boaden1 ,hermit in ,london1 c4 7,london3 ,john ,ebers1 #ahcd71 #bbe4 ,annals 7,the7 of ,gallantry1 or the ,conjugal ,monitor1 by ,a4 ,moore1 ,,ll4,d4 7#c vols41 ,london3 printed for the proprietors by ,m4 ,jones1 #ahad1 #ahae4 ,first issued in #ah parts71 #gj-ga4 ,anti-,slavery4 ,see ,new4 ,arabian ,nights 7the publisher1 ,mr ,john ,murray1 has a record that ,george ,cruikshank was paid ,l#fg1 #ds4 for some illustrations for the ,arabian ,nights71 #aef4 ,arnold1 ,matthew1 #fi4 ,arthur ,o',leary3 ,his ,wanderings and ,ponderings in many ,lands4 ,edited by his ,friend1 ,harry ,lorrequer1 and ,illustrated by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,in ,three ,volumes 7,london3 ,henry ,colburn1 #ahdd71 #aif4 ,artist 7,the7 and the ,author4 ,a ,statement of ,facts1 by the ,artist1 ,george ,cruikshank4 ,proving that the ,distinguished ,author1 ,mr ,w4 ,harrison ,ainsworth1 is 'labouring under a singular delusion' with respect to the origin of ',the ,miser's ,daughter1' ',the ,tower of ,london1' c4 7,london3 ,bell ,daldy1 #ahgb71 #fj4 ,art ,journal 7,the71 #ahd4 ,athenaeum 7,the71 #hb4 ,attic ,miscellany1 #aa4 ,augustus ,frederick1 ,duke of ,sussex 7#fth son of ,george ,,iii41 born #aggc1 died #ahdc4 ,george ,cruikshank etched facsimiles of five illustrations in a #acth century ,hebrew and ,chaldee ,pentateuch1 copies of two illuminations from a #acth century ,armenian ,,ms4 of the ,gospels and an illumination to a ,latin ,psalter of the #ajth century for ,bibliotheca ,sussexiana4 ,a descriptive catalogue1 accompanied by historical and biographical notices of the manuscripts and printed books contained in the library of ,his ,royal ,highness the ,duke of ,sussex1 ,k4,g41 ,d4,c4,l41 c4 c4 c4 c41 in ,kensington ,palace4 ,by ,thomas ,joseph ,pettigrew1 ,f4,r4,s41 ,f4,a4,s41 ,f4,l4,s41 and librarian to ,h4,r4,h4 the ,duke of ,sussex ,london3 ,longman ,co41 ,paternoster ,row2 ,payne ,foss1 ,pall ,mall1 ,harding ,co41 ,pall ,mall ,east2 ,h4 ,bohn1 ,henrietta ,street2 and ,smith ,son1 ,glasgow1 #ahbg74 ,see ,illustrations of ,popular4 ,bacchus ,see ,worship2 ,oil ,painting4 ,bachelor's 7,the7 ,own ,book4 ,the ,adventures of ,mr ,lambkin1 ,gent41 in the ,pursuit of ,pleasure and ,amusement1 and also in search of ,health and ,happiness 7designed1 etched1 and published by ,george ,cruikshank1 #a ,aug4 #ahdd71 #bcb-bcc4 ,baker1 ,a4 ,z41 #bab4 ,ballooning1 #dj4 ,banbury ,chap-,books4 ,see ,pearson1 ,edwin4 ,bands 7,the7 in the ,parks4 ,copy of a letter supposed to have been sent from a ,high ,dignitary of the ,church to 'the ,right ,man in the ,right ,place1' upon the subject of the military ,bands ,playing in the ,parks on ,sundays4 ,picked up and published by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,w4 ,tweedie1 #ahef71 #ei4 ,bank of ,england1 #bh4 ,bank ,restriction ,note 7,hone is said to have realised over ,l#gjj by the sale of this shocker71 #bh4 ,barham1 ,rev4 ,richard ,harris 7,thomas ,ingoldsby2 born #f ,dec4 #aghh1 died #ag ,june #ahde74 ,see ,ingoldsby ,legends4 ,barker1 ,m4 ,h4 7,the and ,an ,old ,sailor71 #ie4 ,see ,greenwich1 ,old ,sailor's ,jolly ,boat1 ,topsail-sheet4 ,bartholomew ,fair1 #ci4 ,basile1 ,giambattista1 #bjd4 ,see ,pentamerone4 ,bateman1 ,lord4 ,see ,loving4 ,bath4 ,see ,new ,bath4 ,bayly1 ,thomas ,haynes 7died #bb ,april #ahci71 #baf4 ,beachy ,head1 #ajh4 ,beauties 7,the7 of ,washington ,irving1 ,esq4444 ,illustrated with woodcuts1 engraved by ,thompson2 from drawings by ,george ,cruikshank1 ,esq4 7#dth ed41 ,london3 ,thomas ,tegg ,son1 #ahce4 ,g4 ,cruikshank illustrated ,knickerbocker's ,new ,york sic with a fine etching entitled ,ten ,breeches1 and another entitled ,anthony ,van ,corlear ,peter ,stuyvesant1 pub4 in ,illustrations of ,popular ,works1 #ahcj74 ,see ,thompson1 ,john4 ,bee 7,the7 and the ,wasp4 ,a ,fable--in verse4 ,with designs and etchings1 by ,g4 ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,charles ,tilt1 #ahcb4 ,the text is by ,richard ,frankum71 #adh4 ,beerbohm1 ,max1 #bb4 ,belch1 ,w1 #ab4 ,bentley1 ,richard1 publisher 7died #aj ,sept4 #ahga in the #ggth year of his age71 #hf4 ,bentley's ,miscellany 7#fd vols41 ,london3 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahcg-ahfh4 ,george ,cruikshank contributed illustrations to the first #ad vols4 ,charles ,dickens edited vols4 i4-v41 and part of vol4 v4 ,william ,harrison ,ainsworth was the next editor1 but started an opposition magazine in #ahdb71 #gd 7vol iv41 #ahch71 #acc 7,the ,handsome ,clear ,starcher71 #age 7,the ,ingoldsby ,legends74 ,beraldi1 ,henri1 #bdh1 #bea4 ,berenger1 ,lt4-,col4 ,baron ,de4 ,see ,stop4 ,bergami1 ,baron ,bartolomo1 #bf4 ,betting 7,the7 ,book4 ,by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,w4 ,f4 ,g4 ,cash1 #aheb71 #eh4 ,blake1 ,william 7born #ageg1 died #ab ,aug4 #ahbh74 ,see ,three4 ,blewitt1 ,mrs ,octavian1 #acd4 ,see ,rose and the ,lily4 ,blucher 7,old7 beating the ,corsican ,big ,drum 7caricature published by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores1 #h ,april #ahad71 #bj4 ,blue ,light 7,the71 #aei4 ,boleyn1 ,anne1 #ij4 ,bolton1 engraver1 #bdi4 ,boney ,hatching a ,bulletin1 or ,snug ,winter ,quarters 7caricature published ,dec4 #ahab by ,walker ,knight71 #ah4 ,boney's ,elb7a7ow ,chair 7caricature published #e ,may #ahad by ,s4 ,knight71 #bj4 ,boney's ,meditations on the island of ,st ,helena4 ,the ,devil addressing the ,sun4 7,g4 ,h4 invt41 ,g4 ,cruikshank fect4 ,caricature published by ,h4 ,humphrey1 ,aug4 #ahae71 #acc4 ,boney ,tir'd of ,war's alarms 7caricature published by ,walker ,knight1 ,jan4 #ahac71 #ah4 ,bottle 7,the74 ,in eight plates1 designed and etched by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,dedicated to ,joseph ,adshead1 ,esq41 of ,manchester4 ,london3 published for the artist1 ,september #ast1 #ahdg1 by ,david ,bogue1 #hf ,fleet ,street2 ,wiley ,putnam1 ,new ,york2 and ,j4 ,sands1 ,sydney1 ,new ,south ,wales4 ,price six shillings1 #bg1 #ee-eg1 #fi4 ,bowring1 ,john4 ,see ,minor4 ,boz4 ,see ,dickens1 ,charles4 ,brazen 7,this7 ,image was erected by the ladies1 in honor of ,paddy ,carey ,o',killus1 ,esq41 their ,man o' ,metal4 7,j4 ,p999999y invt41 ,g4 ,cruikshank fect4 ,caricature published by ,j4 ,fairburn1 #bj ,july #ahbb71 #aga4 ,breaking ,up 7,holiday scene by ,george ,cruikshank1 published #ab ,dec4 #ahbf by ,s4 ,knight71 #a4 ,brighton ,pavilion 7the ,folly71 #dd4 ,broadley1 ,a4 ,m41 #ab4 ,see ,facing1 ,reid4 ,brooks alias ,read1 publisher who employed ,percy ,cruikshank and who was caricatured insultingly by ,george ,cruikshank1 #fj4 ,brough1 ,robt4 ,b4 ,see ,life of ,sir4 ,bruton1 ,h4 ,w41 #acc4 ,buck1 ,adam 7portrait painter1 born #agei1 died #ahcc4 ,the ,duke of ,york was among his sitters71 #bf4 ,bull1 ,john1 #d1 #g1 #agf4 ,see ,john ,bull1 ,john ,bull's1 ,johnny ,bull1 ,preparing4 ,bunyan1 ,john1 #abj1 #abe4 ,see ,christian1 ,pilgrim's 7#b items74 ,burnand1 ,sir ,francis ,cowley1 7born #bi ,nov4 #ahcf2 became editor of ,punch in #ahhj71 #bcd4 ,burns1 ,robert1 #aaf 7,the ,deil cam fiddling thro' the ,town71 #agb 7,the ,jolly ,beggars74 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #aheb4 ,bursill's ,biographies4 ,no4 #a4 ,george ,cruikshank4 ,artist--,humorist--,moralist 7,london3 ,john ,bursill71 #afb4 ,buzmen4 ,a ,buzman is a pickpocket1 #ajc4 ,byron1 ,lord1 #ahc1 #aie4 ,see ,memoirs of the ,life4 ,cakes and ,ale4 ,by ,douglas ,jerrold 7#b vols41 ,how ,parsons1 #ahdb71 #bjd 7,the ,mayor of ,hole-cum-,corner74 ,callot1 ,jacques 7born #aeib1 died #bh ,march #afce71 #ic1 #id4 ,carbonaro1 ,jose ,moreno1 #aii4 ,carbonic ,acid ,gas4 ,see ,good ,effects4 ,carey1 ,david1 #df1 #dg4 ,caroline of ,brunswick1 wife of ,george ,,iv4 7born #ag ,may #agfh1 married ,george1 ,prince of ,wales1 #h ,april #agie1 died #g ,aug4 #ahba4 ,if the belief still linger that ,cruikshank was a ,caroliniac1 see his drawing of ,the ,radical ,ladder in ,the ,loyalist's ,magazine1 #ahba4 ,the preface to this publication remarks on that ,reginal mania1 which for a season transported our countrymen71 #be4 ,see ,a ,going1 ,queen's1 ,royal ,rushlight4 ,carpenter1 #bg4 ,carroll1 ,lewis1 #cb1 #ahc-ahd1 #baf1 #bbj1 #bbc4 ,cash1 ,william1 #eg4 ,catalani1 ,angelica1 #aa4 ,catalogue 7,a7 of a ,selection from the ,works of ,george ,cruikshank1 ,extending over a ,period of ,upwards of ,sixty years from #agii to #ahfc1 ,now ,exhibiting at ,exeter ,hall4 ,consisting of ,upwards of ,one ,hundred ,oil ,paintings1 ,water-,colour ,drawings1 and ,original ,sketches2 together with over a ,thousand ,proof ,etchings1 from his most popular ,works1 ,caricatures1 ,scrap ,books1 ,song ,headings1 c42 and ,the ,worship of ,bacchus4 ,open ,daily from ,ten till ,dusk4 ,admission ,one ,shilling4 ,london3 ,william ,tweedie1 #ccg1 ,strand1 #ahfc4 ,price ,two-pence 7',this title is copied from that of the #bnd ed4 of the catalogue1 desirable on account of ,g4 ,cruikshank's preface which is dated ,february1 #ahfc71 #a4 ,catholic ,miracles2 illustrated with seven designs1 including a characteristic portrait of ,prince ,hohenlohe1 by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,to which is added a reply to ,cobbett's ,defence of ,catholicism1 and his ,libel on the ,reformation 7,london3 ,knight ,lacey4 ,dublin3 ,westley ,tyrrell1 #ahbe71 #adj4 ,cato ,street1 #c4 ,see ,interior ,view of ,hayloft4 ,cervantes1 #ahc4 ,see ,history and1 ,illustrations of ,don4 ,chamisso1 ,adelbert von1 #abe4 ,see ,peter4 ,charles ,gustavus1 ,king of ,sweden1 #gd4 ,chesson1 ,nora 7poet71 #bca4 ,chesterton1 ,gilbert ,keith 7quoted71 #ajd4 ,children's ,lottery ,print 7first published in #ahjd1 by ,w4 ,belch1 ,newington ,butts1 price #a_/b;d4 ,mr ,g4 ,s4 ,layard observes that ,george did not make his copy from the earliest state of the plate171 #ae4 ,child's ,christmas ,piece--,daniel in the ,lion's ,den4 7,an etching4 ,capt4 ,douglas writes1 the centre is left blank in which the child has to write its ,christmas piece71 #aa4 ,cholic 7,the7 7caricature published by ,g4 ,humphrey1 #ab ,feb4 #ahai71aff4 ,christian passing through the ,valley of the ,shadow of ,death 7print of which the foundation is unknown4 ,published by ,w4 ,tweedie1 #ccg ,strand4 ,described on p4 #abe from ,no4 #aj1jdc in ,the ,george ,cruikshank ,collection1 ,south ,kensington ,museum74 ,cigar 7,the7 7#b vols4 ,london3 ,t4 ,richardson1 #ih ,high ,holborn2 ,sherwood1 ,jones ,co41 ,paternoster ,row2 ,w4 ,hunter1 ,edinburgh1 #ahbe4 ,the vols4 contain #be different cuts2 the same design appears on both their title-pages4 ,though ,w4 ,clarke was the editor of and chief contributor to ,the ,cigar1 a re-issue in one vol4 of the greater part of its contents1 containing all the cuts except those on pp4 #ii and #cgh1 vol4 i41 and pp4 #bei and #cgh1 vol4 ii41 states that ,the ,cigar is by ,george ,cruikshank1 author of ',three ,courses and a ,dessert'671 #bca4 ,cinderella and the ,glass ,slipper1 edited and illustrated with ten subjects1 designed and etched on steel1 by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahed71 #eg1 #aec4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #ahed1 #ahei4 ,clarke1 ,william 7born #ahjj1 died #ahch71 #bae1 #bbh1 #bca4 ,see ,cigar1 ,three ,courses4 ,clarke1 ,mrs ,mary ,anne 7nee ,thompson1 born #bg ,june #agga71 married ,clarke a stonemason in #agid4 ,in #ahjc she appears to have been set up in the world of fashion by the ,duke of ,york1 whose mistress she became4 ,in #ahji her practice of accepting bribes from those desiring military promotion scandalised the ,house of ,commons1 and compelled the ,duke to resign the post of ,commander-in-,chief of the ,british army4 ,she died #ba ,june #aheb4 ,author of ,the ,rival ,princes 7#b vols41 ,london3 ,c4 ,chapple1 #ahaj71 #d1 #bf-bg4 ,see ,mrs1 ,return1 ,woman4 ,clarke1 ,mary ,cowden1 #aeb4 ,see ,kit4 ,clement ,lorimer1 or1 the ,book with the ,iron ,clasps4 ,a ,romance by ,angus ,b4 ,reach 7,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahdi2 first published in #f parts71 #ajg1 #aji4 ,cobbett1 ,william 7born ,march #agfb1 died #ah ,june #ahce4 ,author of ,history of the ,regency and ,reign of ,king ,george the ,fourth ,london3 ,william ,cobbett1 #ahcj71 #h1 #ce1 #bce4 ,see ,cobbett at4 ,cobbett at ,court1 or ,st ,james's in a bustle 7extracted from ,no4 ,,iii4 of ,the ,censor4 ,pub4 by ,w4 ,deans1 ,catherine ,st41 ,strand1 #af ,oct4 #ahjg71cb4 ,collier1 ,john ,payne1 #acj4 ,see ,punch and ,judy4 ,columbus and the ,egg1 #aia4 ,comic ,almanack 7#ai vols41 #ahce-ahec4 ,the first six1 #ahce-ahdj1 were published by ,tilt4 ,the next three1 #ahda-ahdc1 were published by ,tilt ,bogue4 ,the remaining vols41 #ahdd-ahec1 were published by ,david ,bogue4 ,the following is an abridged copy of the words of the first title-page3 ,the ,comic ,almanack for #ahce3 an ,ephemeris in jest and earnest 444 by ,rigdum ,funnidos1 ,gent4 ,adorned with a dozen of 'right merrie' cuts1 pertaining to the months1 sketched and etched by ,george ,cruikshank1 and divers humorous cuts by other hands4 ,london3 ,imprinted for ,charles ,tilt1 ,bibliopolist1 in ,fleet ,street4 ,vizetelly1 ,branston ,co41 ,printers1 ,fleet ,street71 #cb1 #ce1 #ci-dj1 #da1 #eb1 #ec1 #aif1 #baa-bab1 #bbd4 ,see ,guys4 ,comic 7,a7 ,alphabet1 designed1 etched1 and published by ,george ,cruikshank1 ,no4 #bc ,myddelton ,terrace1 ,pentonville1 #ahcf1 #ahj 7,socrates71 #aha4 ,comic ,composites for the ,scrap ,book 7published by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores1 circa #ahba-ahbb4 #bnd state published #a ,june #ahbi by ,w4 ,b4 ,cooke71 #ada1 #adb4 ,composites4 ,see ,comic ,composites4 ,coriolanus addressing the ,plebeians 7caricature published #bg ,feb4 #ahbj by ,g4 ,humphrey71 #d1 #ce4 ,coronation 7,the7 of the ,empress of the ,nairs 7in ,the ,scourge1 #a ,sept4 #ahab71 #bd4 ,cowper1 ,william1 #ahc1 #bac4 ,see ,diverting4 ,cow 7,the7 ,pox ,tragedy4 ,scene the ,last 7caricature published #ahab in ,the ,scourge1 ,aug4 #ahab71 #ca4 ,crinolines1 #cb4 ,cruikshank1 ,miss ,eliza 7died young71 #aab4 ,cruikshank1 ,mrs ,eliza 7nee ,widdison1 who married ,george ,cruikshank1 #g ,march #ahej71 #aab1 #aac1 #bdh4 ,see ,original4 ,cruikshank1 ,george4 ,for ,bibliographies of his works1 see ,catalogue1 ,reid1 ,three ,cruikshanks1 ,works4 ,for ,biographies of him and kindred works1 see ,bursill's1 ,jerrold 7,blanchard71 ,layard1 ,memoir1 ,meynell1 ,sala1 ,stephens4 ,for literary and artistic volumes by him1 see ,artist1 ,bands1 ,betting1 ,cinderella1 ,cruikshankiana1 ,discovery1 ,drawings1 ,few1 ,george ,cruikshank's 7#d items71 ,glass1 ,handbook1 ,history of ,jack1 ,hop-o'-my-thumb1 ,illustrations of ,time1 ,jack1 ,my1 ,phrenological1 ,pop-,gun1 ,puss1 ,scraps1 ,slice1 ,stop4 ,for pictures exhibited by him1 see ,royal ,academy4 ,for portraits of him1 see frontispiece1 #ae1 #bg1 #ce1 #dg1 #aaa1 #aab1 #aca4 ,the monument to him1 which includes a bust of him1 in the crypt of ,st ,paul's ,cathedral1 was designed and executed by ,john ,adams ,acton4 ,a4 ,clayton sold a bust of ,g4 ,cruikshank to the ,national ,portrait ,gallery4 ,there is an engraved portrait of him1 full of character1 by ,d4,j4 ,pound1 from a photo by ,john and ,charles ,watkins1 ,parliament ,st4 ,for his residences1 see #aj4 ,cruikshank1 ,isaac 7born #agef81 died #ahaj or #ahaa71 #aj1 #aa1 #aaa4 ,see ,facing4 ,cruikshank1 ,isaac ,robert 7born #aghi or #agij1 died #ahef71 #df1 #dg1 #fj1 #fg1 #aaa1 #bjj1 #bac4 ,cruikshank1 ,percy1 #fj1 #fe4 ,cruikshankiana3 ,an ,assemblage of the ,most ,celebrated ,works of ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,thomas ,mc,lean1 #ahce71 #bcc4 ,crusoe1 ,robinson4 ,see ,life and4 ,cumberland1 ,duke of 7,ernest ,augustus1 fifth son of ,george ,,iii471 #aci-adj4 ,d',aiguille1 ,p41 #bg4 ,daniel in the ,lion's ,den1 #aa4 ,see ,child's ,christmas4 ,daumier1 ,honore 7born #bf ,feb4 #ahjh1 died #aa ,feb4 #ahgi4 ,his extraordinary industry1 evidenced by the fact that the catalogue of his lithographed works alone enumerates #cieh plates1 reminds us of ,george ,cruikshank71 #agf1 #agi4 ,davenport1 ,samuel 7line engraver1 born #aj ,dec4 #aghc1 died #ae ,july #ahfg2 he was one of the earliest to engrave on steel74 ,defoe1 ,daniel4 ,see ,life and1 ,journal4 ,delort1 ,c41 #ij4 ,demonology4 ,see ,twelve4 ,design for a ,palace4 ,see ,palace4 ,devil 7,the71 #ah-ai1 #aaf4 ,dibdin1 ,charles4 ,see ,songs4 ,dickens1 ,charles 7,boz1 born #g ,feb4 #ahab1 died #i ,june #ahgj71 #ii1 #aie1 #bbd1 #bca-bcb4 ,see ,oliver1 ,sketches1 ,sir ,lionel4 ,dick ,whittington and his ,cat 7a ,banbury ,chap-,book designed by ,cruikshank1 engraved by ,branstone writes ,edwin ,pearson1 and published by 8 ,j4 ,g4 ,rusher about #ahad4 ,george and ,robert ,cruikshank designed and etched the folding coloured frontispiece to ,history of ,whittington and ,his ,cat1 published by ,dean ,munday1 ,threadneedle ,st41 #ahbb71 #aee4 ,dictionary 7,a7 of the ,slang and ,cant ,languages 7,london3 ,george ,smeeton1 #ahji71 #df4 ,dinner 7,the7 of the ,four-in-,hand ,club at ,salthill 7caricature by ,george ,cruikshank1 published in ,the ,scourge1 #a ,june #ahaa1 by ,m4 ,jones71 #ea4 ,dirks1 ,gus1 #bab4 ,discovery 7,a7 ,concerning ,ghosts2 with a rap at the ',spirit-,rappers1' by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,illustrated with ,cuts4 ,dedicated to the ',ghost ,club' 7,london3 ,frederick ,arnold1 #ahfc71 #ei-fj1 #aaf4 ,distant 7,a7 ,view of ,shakespeare's ,cliff1 ,dover1 #ajg4 ,disturbing the ,congregation 7oil-painting painted in #ahdh for the ,prince ,consort71 #bdj4 ,diverting 7,the7 ,history of ,john ,gilpin4 ,showing how he went farther than he intended and came safe home again1 with six illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,charles ,tilt1 #ahbh71 #bac4 ,don ,quixote #aii-bjj1 #bja4 ,see ,history and ,illustrations of ,don4 ,dots4 ,see ,striking4 ,douglas1 ,capt4 ,r4 ,j4 ,h41 #af4 ,see ,new ,union1 ,works4 ,doyle1 ,richard 7born #ahbd1 died #aj ,dec4 #ahhc71 #d4 ,drawings by ,george ,cruikshank prepared by him to illustrate an intended autobiography4 ,published for ,sir ,benjamin ,ward ,richardson by ,chatto ,windus1 #bad ,piccadilly1 ,london1 ,january #bast1 #ahie1 #ei1 #ajh4 ,drunkard 7,the71 a ,poem1 by ,john ,o',neill1 with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,tilt ,bogue1 #ahdb71 #eb1 #ee4 ,drunkard's 7,the7 ,children1 a ,sequel to ,the ,bottle in eight plates1 by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 published ,july #ast1 #ahdh1 by ,david ,bogue71 #ee1 #eg4 ,dumas1 ,alexandre 7pere71 #id4 ,du ,maurier1 ,george ,louis ,palmella ,busson 7born #f ,march #ahcd1 died #h ,oct4 #ahif71 #dc1 #agf1 #aif4 ,dunstan1 ,st41 #abb1 #abc4 ,see ,true4 ,dussek1 ,o4,b4 ,see ,fairy ,songs4 ,dutton1 ,thomas4 ,see ,monthly4 ,education4 ,see ,few4 ,egan1 ,pierce 7born #aggb1 died #ahdi71 #df4 ,ehrhart1 ,s4 ,d41 #afb4 #ahea3 or ,the ,adventures of ,mr and ,mrs ,cursty ,sandboys4 ,see ,world's4 ,elizabeth1 ,princess 7afterwards ,queen of ,england71 #he4 ,elysium 7,the7 of ,animals3 ,a ,dream4 ,by ,egerton ,smith 7,london3 ,j4 ,nisbet1 #ahcf4 ,the etching by ,geo4 ,cruikshank entitled ,the ,knackers sic ,yard1 or the ,horses sic last home6 here contains the notice ,licensed for ,slaughtering ,horses71 #bbj4 ,etching1 #bcf1 #bci4 ,every-,day 7,the7 ,book1 or ,everlasting ,calendar of ,popular ,amusements1 ,sports1 ,pastimes1 ,ceremonies1 ,manners1 ,customs1 and ,events1 ,incident to each of the ,three ,hundred and ,sixty-,five ,days1 in ,past and ,present ,times1 by ,william ,hone 7#b vols41 ,london3 ,hunt ,clarke1 #ahbf-g47 ,the ,table ,book1 by ,william ,hone #b vols41 ,london3 ,hunt ,clarke1 #ahbg-h4 is associated with ,the ,every-,day ,book in a collective title-page #ahca1 #he4 ,facing the ,enemy 7caricature published at ,ackermann's ,gallery1 #agig-h4 ,mr ,a4 ,m4 ,broadley has an impression of this caricature on which ,george ,cruikshank has written etched by ,ik4 ,cruikshank not any by me ,g4 ,ck471 #ab4 ,fairies4 ,see ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library4 ,fairy 7,the7 ,ring1 #afj1 #bdj4 ,fairy ,songs and ,ballads for the ,young4 ,written1 composed and dedicated to ,her ,royal ,highness ,the ,princess ,royal1 by ,o4 ,b4 ,dussek4 ,in ,two ,books 7,london3 ,d',almaine ,co471 #aee4 ,falstaff1 #dh1 #ace4 ,see ,life of ,sir4 ,farrow1 ,g4 ,e41 #baf4 ,fashion1 #g1 #ca-b1 #cc1 #cg4 ,see ,monstrosities of #ahaf1 ,monstrosities of #ahbf1 ,mushroom4 ,fat 7,the7 in the ,fire1 cut at end of ',non mi ,ricordo6' c4 c4 c4 7,london3 ,william ,hone1 #ahbj71 #d4 ,few 7,a7 ,remarks on the ,system of ,general ,education as prepared by the ,national ,education ,league1 by ,george ,cruikshank1 with a second edition of ,a ,slice of ,bread and ,butter1 upon the same subject1 with cuts 7,london3 ,william ,tweedie1 #ahgj71 #ei4 ,fielding1 ,henry1 #ahc1 #ahh4 ,see ,adventures of ,joseph1 ,illustrations of ,smollett1 ,tom4 ,fireside ,plate 7,the71 an etching for ,oliver ,twist1 #i4 ,first 7,the7 ,appearance of ,william ,shakespeare1 on the stage of ,the ,globe1 surrounded by part of his ,dramatic ,company1 the other members coming over the hills4 7,designed by ,george ,cruikshank1 ,jan4 #ahfc4 ,the drawing in the ,south ,kensington ,museum was done by our artist in #ahfd-e1 and is from the original water color drawing by ,george ,cruikshank1 in the possession of ,t4 ,morson1 ,esq41 ,junr4 ,a replica of the design for ,mr ,morson was printed in permanent pigments by the ,autotype ,fine ,art ,co41 ,ltd41 and published by them at #cf ,rathbone ,place1 ,london4 ,no4 #aj1jha of the ,george ,cruikshank coll4 at the ,south ,kensington ,museum is a smaller version of the same design with a different colour scheme signed ,george ,cruikshank1 #ahgf71 #ahg4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #ahfg4 ,fitting out ,moses for the ,fair4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #ahcj4 ,fitzherbert1 ,mrs1 #ag1 #bb4 ,flight1 ,edward ,g4 ,see ,true4 ,flying ,machines1 #dj4 ,fores1 ,s4 ,w41 publisher4 #ej ,piccadilly1 boasted an ,exhibition of the compleatest ,collection of ,caricatures in ,europe1 #bdc4 ,four-in hand ,club4 ,see ,dinner4 ,frankum1 ,richard1 #adh4 ,see ,bee4 ,frederick1 ,duke of ,york and ,albany1 second son of ,george ,,iii4 7born #af ,aug4 #agfb1 died #e ,jan4 #ahbg71 #bc1 #bf4 ,see ,clarke1 ,mrs ,mary ,anne2 ,osnaburg2 ,return to ,office4 ,frederick the ,great1 #gd4 ,french ,musicians1 or ,les ,savoyards 7an etching4 ,london3 ,g4 ,humphrey1 #af ,june #ahai71 #ajj4 ,french ,republic4 ,see ,leader4 ,funnidos1 ,rigdum4 ,see ,comic ,almanack4 ,gentleman 7,the7 in ,black1 by ,john ,yonge ,akerman 7,london3 ,william ,kidd1 #ahca71 #fj1 #abe4 ,gentlemen's 7,the7 ,pocket ,magazine and ,album of ,literature and ,fine ,arts 7,london3 ,joseph ,robins1 #ahbg-ahbi71 #if4 ,george1 ,prince of ,wales1 afterwards ,george ,,iv4 7born #ab ,aug4 #agfb1 died #bf ,june #ahcj71 #d1 #h1 #ai1 #bb-bf1 #ce1 #acc4 ,see ,boney's ,meditations1 ,coriolanus1 ,coronation1 ,fat1 ,john ,bull ,advising1 ,kick1 ,meditations1 ,princely ,agility1 ,regent1 ,results1 ,wright 7,thomas74 ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library 7#d numbers1 ,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahec1 #ahed1 #ahfd71 #eg and #aec 7,cinderella71 #ei1 #gd 7,hop o' my ,thumb71 #aee-aef1 #aeg1 #aei 7,jack and the ,beanstalk74 ,george ,cruikshank's ,magazine 7,edited by ,frank ,e ,smedley4 ,london3 ,d4 ,bogue1 #ahed1 ,jan4 and ,feb471 #ci 7,passing ,events71 #dd1 #ei1 #bag1 #bbd4 ,george ,cruikshank's ,omnibus4 ,illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood4 ,edited by ,laman ,blanchard1 ,esq4 7,london3 ,tilt ,bogue1 ,fleet ,street1 #ahdb4 ,first issued in #i monthly parts1 the first for ,may #ahda the last for ,jan4 #ahdb74 ,frontispiece1 #bj1 #ce1 #dc1 #baf4 ,george ,cruikshank's ,table ,book 7,edited by ,gilbert ,abbott a ,beckett4 ,london3 published at the ,punch ,office1 #ib ,fleet ,st41 #ahde4 ,first issued in #ab monthly numbers from ,jan4 to ,dec41 #ahde71 #ce1 #dj1 #dc1 #adg1 #agg1 #ahj and #ahe 7,the ,lion of the ,party71 #bbc1 #bbd4 ,german ,popular ,stories1 translated from the ,kinder und ,haus ,maerchen1 collected by ,m4 ,m4 ,grimm from ,oral ,tradition 7,london3 ,c4 ,baldwyn1 #ahbc1 but issued #ahbb2 vol4 ii41 ,london3 ,james ,robins ,co42 ,dublin3 ,joseph ,robins1 ,jun41 ,co41 #ahbf4 ,the etchings were so skilfully imitated in ,cruikshank's lifetime that he at first sight imagined the copies in question to be impressions from the lost plates etched by him71 #add1 #ade1 #adg1 #aeb4 ,german ,romance4 ,see ,specimens4 ,ghosts1 #ca1 #ei-fj1 #acf1 #aci-adj4 ,see ,discovery4 ,gibson1 ,charles ,dana1 #agf4 ,gil ,blas1 #aii4 ,see ,adventures of ,gil4 ,gillray1 ,james 7born #ageg1 died #a ,june #ahae71 #g1 #h1 #aa1 #af-ah1 #ba1 #ca1 #aff1 #bbe4 ,see ,grego4 ,glascock1 ,capt4 7,r4,n471 #aci4 ,see ,land ,sharks4 ,glass 7,the7 and the ,new ,crystal ,palace4 ,by ,george ,cruikshank1 with cuts 7,london3 ,j4 ,cassell71 #eh-ei1 #fb1 #fc4 ,goldsmith1 ,oliver1 #ahc1 #aia4 ,see ,illustrations of ,smollett1 ,royal ,academy #ahcj1 ,vicar4 ,goles 7,golls1 goll means hand71 #bc4 ,good 7,the7 ,effects of ,carbonic ,acid ,gas 7caricature published by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores1 #aj ,dec4 #ahjg71 #ca4 ,good 7,the7 ,genius that turned everything into gold1 or1 ,the ,queen ,bee and the ,magic ,dress1 ,a ,christmas ,fairy ,tale1 by the ,brothers ,mayhew1 with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank 7called on the paper cover1 ,books for the ,rail1 the ,road1 and the ,fireside4 ,,ii4 ,the ,magic of ,industry4 ,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahdg71 #adh1 #adi1 #aej4 ,gorey1 #ie4 ,gould1 ,sir ,francis ,carruthers1 #d4 ,greatest 7,the7 ,plague of ,life3 or ,the ,adventures of a ,lady in ,search of a ,good ,servant4 ,by ,one who has been 'almost worried to death4' ,edited by the ,brothers ,mayhew4 ,illustrated by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahdg4 ,first issued in #f parts71 #agf1 #bai1 #bba4 ,greenwich ,hospital1 a series of ,naval ,sketches1 ,descriptive of the ,life of a ,man-of-,war's ,man4 ,by an ,old ,sailor1 by ,m4 ,h4 ,barker 7,london3 ,james ,robins ,co42 ,dublin3 ,joseph ,robins1 ,junr41 ,co41 #ahbf2 first issued in four parts1 ,demy #dto71 #ie4 ,grego1 ,joseph 7author of ,the ,works of ,james ,gillray1 ,the ,caricaturist1 edited by ,thomas ,wright1 ,esq41 ,m4,a41 ,f4,s4,a4 ,london3 ,chatto ,windus1 #ahgc1 also of ,rowlandson the ,caricaturist #b vols41 ,chatto ,windus1 #ahhj1 ,mr ,grego died ,jan4 #bd1 #aijh71 #aff4 ,see ,oliver4 ,grimaldi1 ,joseph 7born #ah ,dec4 #aggi1 died #ca ,may #ahcg74 ,see ,memoirs of ,joseph4 ,grimm1 ,jacob ,ludwig ,carl and ,wilhelm ,carl 7brothers71 #dc1 #add1 #aei4 ,see ,german4 ,guy1 #ci and #he 7,guys in ,council1 in ,the ,comic ,almanack1 #ahch71 #he 7,guy for ,the ,every-,day ,book74 ,guy ,fawkes2 or1 ,the ,gun-powder ,treason4 ,an ,historical ,romance by ,william ,harrison ,ainsworth1 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahda4 ,it came out in ,bentley's ,miscellany1 vols4 vii41 viii41 ix41 x41 #ahdj-ahda71 #he-hf1 #adj4 ,guy ,mannering1 by ,sir ,walter ,scott1 #aig4 ,hall1 ,samuel ,carter4 ,see ,old ,story4 ,hamilton1 ,walter1 #aab1 #bca4 ,see ,memoir of4 ,hancock ,charles1 #bdc4 ,see ,handbook4 ,handbook 7,a7 for ,posterity3 or ,recollections of ,twiddle ,twaddle by ,george ,cruikshank about himself and other people4 ,a series of sixty-two etchings on glass with descriptive notes 7,london3 ,w4 ,t4 ,spencer1 #ahif4 ,the notes are by ,charles ,hancock71 #bdc 7quoted74 ,harley1 ,robert 7,earl of ,oxford1 born #affa1 died #ba ,may #agbd71 #ia4 ,hastings1 #ajg4 ,headache 7,the7 7caricature published by ,g4 ,humphrey1 #ab ,feb4 #ahai71 #aff4 ,henry ,,viii41 #bd1 #ij1 #acg4 ,hepenstall1 ,lieut41 #id-ie4 ,hermit4 ,see ,peeps4 ,herne1 #ij1 #ace1 #acf1 #acg4 ,hertford1 ,marchioness of #d1 #bd4 ,see ,coronation4 ,historical 7,an7 ,account of the ,campaign in the ,netherlands in #ahae1 by ,william ,mudford 7,london3 ,henry ,colburn1 #ahdg4 ,the late ,edwin ,truman1 ,m4,r4,c4,s41 as famous for his ,cruikshank collection as for his success in purifying gutta-percha1 states on the mount of the original etched plate of ,the ,battle of ,waterloo1 for this book1 that he considers it the most valuable plate in his collection71 #ga4 ,history 7,the7 and ,adventures of the ,renowned ,don ,quixote3 from the ,spanish of ,miguel ,de ,cervantes ,saavedra4 ,by ,t4 ,smollett ,m4,d4 ,to which is prefixed a memoir of the author by ,thomas ,roscoe4 ,illustrated by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,in three volumes 7,london3 ,effingham ,wilson2 ,dublin3 ,w4 ,f4 ,wakeman2 ,edinburgh3 ,waugh ,innes1 #ahcc2 being vols4 xiii41 xiv41 xv4 of ,the ,novelist's ,library1 edited by ,thomas ,roscoe1 with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank71 #aii1 #bja4 ,see ,illustrations4 ,history 7,a7 of ,egyptian ,mummies1 and an ,account of ,the ,worship and ,embalming of the ,sacred ,animals by the ,egyptians2 with ,remarks on the ,funeral ,ceremonies of ,different ,nations1 and ,observations on the ,mummies of the ,canary ,islands1 of the ancient ,peruvians1 ,burman ,priests1 c4 ,by ,thomas ,joseph ,pettigrew1 ,f4,r4,s41 ,f4,s4,a41 ,f4,l4,s4 7,london3 ,longman1 ,rees1 ,orme1 ,brown1 ,green1 and ,longman1 #ahcd71 #bdd4 ,history 7,the7 of ,jack and the ,beanstalk1 edited and illustrated with six etchings1 by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahed71 #aef1 #aei4 ,history of the ,irish ,rebellion in #agih2 with memoirs of the ,union1 and ,emmett's ,insurrection in #ahjc4 ,by ,w4 ,h4 ,maxwell1 ,esq4 7,london3 ,baily1 ,brothers1 ,cornhill1 #ahde2 first published in #ae parts71 #ic4 ,hoffmann1 ,ernst ,theodor ,wilhelm1 author of ,meister ,floh 7,master ,flea71 which ,george ,cruikshank illustrated in ,specimens of ,german ,romance 7vol4 ii41 #ahbf71 #aea4 ,hogarth1 ,william 7born #afig1 died #bf ,oct4 #agfd71 #h1 #gg1 #gh1 #bdc4 ,see ,trusler4 ,hone1 ,william 7born #aggi1 died #f ,nov4 #ahdb71 #bh1 #ce4 ,see ,every-,day1 ,non1 ,queen's4 ,hood1 ,thomas 7born #agih1 died #c ,may #ahde71 #afe4 ,hop-o'-my-,thumb and ,the ,seven-,league ,boots4 ,edited and illustrated with six etchings by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahec71 7,no4 ,i of ,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library71 #gd1 #aef4 ,hoskyns1 ,c4 ,w1 #bjh4 ,see ,talpa4 ,house and ,home1 ,part ,,viii1 ,new ,series1 ,oct4 #ahhb 7,no4 for ,sept4 #bi1 #ahhb4 ,london ,e4 ,c4741 #fi4 ,humour1 #afe4 ,humourist 7,the71 ,a ,collection of ,entertaining ,tales1 ,anecdotes1 ,epigrams1 ,bon ,mots sic1 c4 c4 7#d vols1 ,london3 ,j4 ,robins ,co1 #ahai-ahbj4 ,first issued in numbers71 #ce1 #gb-gc1 #agi1 #bje1 #bji1 #baa1 #bac4 ,humphrey1 ,h41 publisher1 #bj4 ,hunt1 ,robert4 ,see ,popular4 ,hyde ,park1 #c1 #aga4 ,illustrations of ,don ,quixote1 in a series of fifteen plates1 designed and etched by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,charles ,tilt1 #ahcd71 #aii-bjj1 #bja4 ,illustrations of ,popular ,works4 ,by ,george ,cruikshank 7,part ,i41 without successor4 ,london pub4 for the ,artist by ,longman1 ,rees1 ,orme1 ,brown ,green1 #ahcj4 ,george ,cruikshank dedicates this work to ,h4,r4,h4 ,prince ,augustus ,frederick1 ,duke of ,sussex71 #aaf1 #aia-aib1 #aic4 ,see ,beauties4 ,illustrations of ,smollett1 ,fielding1 and ,goldsmith1 in a series of forty-one plates1 designed and engraved by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,accompanied by descriptive extracts 7,london3 ,charles ,tilt1 #ahcb71 #ahh1 #ahi4 ,illustrations of ,time4 ,by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 published ,may #ast1 #ahbg1 by the ,artist1 #bb ,myddelton ,terrace1 ,pentonville71 #ahd1 #bbe4 ,imperial 7,the7 ,family ,going to the ,devil 7caricature published #a ,march #ahad1 by ,t4 ,hughes1 ,ludgate ,hill71 #ai4 ,impostor 7,the7 ,unmasked2 or1 the ,new ,man of the ,people1 with anecdotes1 never before published sic1 illustrative of the character of the renowned and immaculate ,bardolpho ,inscribed without permission1 to that superlatively honest and disinterested ,man1 ,r4 ,b4 ,s-r-d-n1 ,esq4 7,london3 ,tipper ,richards1 #ahjf4 ,bardolph was a nickname of ,r4 ,b4 ,sheridan71 #ae4 ,inglis1 ,henry ,david 7died #bj ,march #ahce71 #bjj4 ,see ,rambles4 ,ingoldsby 7,the7 ,legends or ,mirth and ,marvels1 by ,thomas ,ingoldsby1 ,esquire 7,london3 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahdj1 #ahdb1 #ahdg4 ,the author was ,rev4 ,richard ,harris ,barham71 #aag1 #aai1 #age 7,lady ,jane74 ,interior ,view of ,hayloft1 etc41 in ,cato ,street1 occupied by the ,conspiratars 7etching published by ,g4 ,humphrey1 #i ,march #ahbj74 ,interior ,view of the ,house of ,god 7caricature published in ,the ,scourge1 #a ,nov4 #ahaa71 #bg4 ,ireland1 #ic-ie4 ,irish ,rebellion4 ,see ,history of the4 ,irving1 ,washington4 ,see ,beauties4 ,italian ,tales4 ,tales of ,humour1 ,gallantry1 and ,romance1 selected and translated from the ,italian1 with sixteen illustrative drawings by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,charles ,baldwyn1 ,newgate ,st41 #ahbd4 ,the words ,italian ,tales are not printed on the title-page of the second edition4 ,the suppressed plate is ,the ,dead ,rider1 not to be confounded with the etching of the same title1 representing two friars1 each on horseback71 #aff4 ,jack and the ,beanstalk4 ,see ,history of ,jack4 ,jack ,sheppard4 ,a ,romance4 ,by ,w4 ,harrison ,ainsworth1 ,esq4 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahci71 #gg-gh1 #gi1 #hj1 #ajd4 ,jenner1 ,edward 7,m4,d41 born #agdi1 died #ahbc71 #ca4 ,jerrold1 ,blanchard1 author of ,the ,life of ,george ,cruikshank in two epochs 7new ed41 ,london3 ,chatto ,windus1 #ahih71 #df1 #bca4 ,jerrold1 ,douglas ,william 7born #c ,jan4 #ahjc1 died #h ,june #aheg71 #afe4 ,see ,cakes4 ,jersey1 ,frances1 ,countess of1 #d4 ,johannot1 ,tony 7born #i ,nov4 #ahjc1 died #d ,aug4 #aheb71 #hi4 ,john ,bull ,advising with his ,superiors 7print pub4 by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores1 #c ,april #ahjh71 #bc4 ,john ,bull's ,three ,stages1 or from ,good to ,bad1 and from ,bad to ,worse 7caricature published in ,the ,scourge for ,march #b1 #ahae71 #bg4 ,johnny ,bull and his ,forged ,notes66 or ,rags and ,ruin in the ,paper ,currency666 7caricature published ,jan4 #ahai by ,j4 ,sidebotham1 #bhg ,strand71 #bh1 #bi4 ,journal 7,a7 of ,the ,plague ,year2 or ,memorials of the ,great ,pestilence in ,london1 in #affe4 ,by ,daniel ,de ,foe 7,london3 ,john ,murray1 #ahcc71 #if1 #ig1 #ajd4 ,juliet and the ,nurse 7,in ,reid #bgcb1 ,george ,cruikshank coll41 ,british ,museum1 are included a plain and a coloured lithograph signed ,g4 ,ck4 fect4 #ahae4 ,in ,,ms4 below each design are the words ,juliet and the ,nurse4 ,pubd4 by ,g4 ,cruikshank1 #aag ,dorset ,st41 ,city1 #ahae4 ,the nurse is enormous and seated2 ,juliet stands behind her at left4 ,reid #bgcc1 a coloured unsigned1 undated lithograph without publisher's name1 has a printed footline--,juliet and the ,nurse4 ,juliet stands at the right of the nurse and there is a curtain at left4 ,the figures are the same as in ,reid #bgcb1 and ,reid says that the design ,reid #bgcc is copied from a ,spanish sketch or etching71 #ahd4 ,juvenile ,monstrosities 7caricature published by ,g4 ,humphrey1 #bd ,jan4 #ahbf4 ,reprinted in ,cruikshankiana71 #cb1 #cc4 ,karslake1 ,frank1 #ajg4 ,kean1 ,edmund1 #ahd4 ,keene1 ,charles ,samuel 7born #aj ,aug4 #ahbc1 died #d ,jan4 #ahia71 #dc4 ,kick 7,a7 from ,yarmouth to ,wales2 or ,the ,new ,rowly ,powly 7print pub4 by ,j4 ,johnston1 #ahab4 ,a publication exists entitled ,r-y-l ,stripes1 or1 a ,kick from ,yar-h to ,wa-s ,london ,e4 ,wilson1 #ahab71 #bd4 ,kidd1 ,william1 #fj4 ,kit ,bam's ,adventures1 or1 the ,yarns of an ,old ,mariner4 ,by ,mary ,cowden ,clarke 7,london ,grant ,griffith1 #ahdi71 #aeb4 ,knacker's 7,the7 ,yard1 #bbj4 ,see ,elysium1 ,voice4 ,konigsmark1 #gd4 ,ladies ,buy your ,leaf66 7caricature by ,g4 ,cruikshank1 pub4 ,july #ahbb by ,fairburn1 ,broadway3 ,irish ,chairman71 #aga4 ,lambert1 ,daniel1 #gc4 ,lambeth1 #hf4 ,lambkin1 ,mr4 ,see ,bachelor's4 ,landells1 ,c4 7wood-engraver ,the only ,landells famous as a wood-engraver in ,cruikshank's working-life is ,ebenezer ,landells1 born #ac ,april #ahjh1 died #a ,oct4 #ahfj ,therefore1 though ,c4 ,landells is on the title-page of ,the ,gentleman in ,black #ahca1 ,i suggest that the cuts facing pp4 #ec1 #ie1 of which the latter is clearly signed ,landells tout court1 are by ,ebenezer ,landells71 #abf4 ,landells1 ,ebenezer4 ,see ,landells1 ,c4 ,landscape-,historical ,illustrations of ,scotland1 and the ,waverley ,novels from drawings by ,j4 ,m4 ,w4 ,turner1 ,professor1 ,r4,a41 ,balmer1 ,bentley1 ,chisholm1 ,hart1 ,a4,r4,a41 ,harding1 ,mc,clise1 ,a4,r4,a41 ,melville1 etc4 etc4 ,comic ,illustrations by ,g4 ,cruikshank4 ,descriptions by the ,rev4 ,g4 ,n4 ,wright1 ,m4 ,a41 c4 7#b vols1 ,fisher1 ,son1 ,co41 ,london1 ,paris1 and ,america1 #ahcf-h4 ,cruikshank's etchings appear in the same publisher's edition in #dh vols4 of ,waverley ,novels #ahcf-h and they are dated #ahcf1 #ahcg1 #ahch71 #afi1 #age1 #aib1 #aig1 #bcg4 ,landseer1 ,charles1 #bdj4 ,land ,sharks and ,sea ,gulls ,by ,captain ,glascock1 ,r4,n4 7#c vols1 ,london3 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahch71 #aci1 #aia4 ,lang1 ,andrew1 #bca4 ,latham1 ,o',neill1 #afb4 ,layard1 ,george ,somes1 author of ,george ,cruikshank's ,portraits of ,himself 7,london3 ,w4 ,t4 ,spencer1 #ahig71 #ae1 #ce1 #abj1 #bdg4 ,leader 7,the7 of the ,parisian ,blood ,red ,republic of #ahgj1 or ,the ,infernal ,fiend 7caricature designed1 etched and published by ,george ,cruikshank1 ,june #ahga71 #c4 ,legend 7,a7 of the ,rhine1 #aif4 ,leloir1 ,maurice1 #id4 ,le ,sage1 ,alain ,rene1 #ahc4 ,see ,adventures of ,gil4 ,lever1 ,charles ,james 7born #ahjf1 died #ahgb71 #aif4 ,life 7,the7 and ,surprising ,adventures of ,robinson ,crusoe1 of ,york1 ,mariner4 ,with introductory verses by ,bernard ,barton1 and illustrated with numerous engravings from drawings by ,george ,cruikshank1 expressly designed for this edition 7#b vols1 ,london ,john ,major1 #ahca71 #bda4 ,life in ,london1 or1 the ,day and ,night ,scenes of ,jerry ,hawthorn1 ,esq4 and his elegant friend ,corinthian ,tom1 accompanied by ,bob ,logic1 the ,oxonian1 in their ,rambles and ,sprees through the ,metropolis ,by ,pierce ,egan1 author of ',walks through ,bath1' ',sporting ,anecdotes1' ',pictures of the ,fancy1' ',boxiana1' c4 ,dedicated to his most gracious majesty ,king ,george the ,fourth ,embellished with thirty six scenes from real life1 designed and etched by ,i4 ,r4 and ,g4 ,cruikshank1 and enriched also with numerous original designs on ,wood1 by the same ,artists 7,london3 ,sherwood1 ,neely1 ,jones1 #ahba ,first issued in #ab monthly parts1 the first on #b ,oct #ahbj the last in ,july #ahba71 #df-dg #di1 #fg4 ,life in ,paris1 comprising the ,rambles ,sprees and ,amours of ,dick ,wildfire1 of ,corinthian ,celebrity1 and his ,bang-up ,companion1 ,squire ,jenkins and ,captain ,o',shuffleton1 with the whimsical ,adventures of the ,halibut ,family1 including ,sketches of a ,variety of other ,eccentric ,characters in the ,french ,metropolis ,by ,david ,carey ,embellished with ,twenty one ,coloured ,plates1 representing ,scenes from ,real ,life designed and engraved by ,george ,cruikshank ,enriched also with ,twenty two ,engravings on wood drawn by the same ,artist1 and executed by ,mr ,white 7,london3 ,john ,fairburn1 #ahbb4 ,it was issued in parts71 #df-dg4 ,life 7,the7 of ,mansie ,wauch ,tailor in ,dalkeith1 written by himself4 ,a new ,edition revised and greatly enlarged ,with eight illustrations1 by ,george ,cruickshank sic ,william ,blackwood ,sons1 ,edinburgh and ,thomas ,cadell1 ,london1 #ahci 7,the author is ,david ,macbeth ,moir71 #age4 ,life 7,the7 of ,napoleon1 a ,hudibrastic ,poem in fifteen cantos by ,doctor ,syntax1 embellished with thirty engravings by ,g4 ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,t4 ,tegg1 ,,iii4 ,cheapside1 ,wm4 ,allason1 #ca ,new ,bond ,street1 and ,j4 ,dick1 ,edinburgh1 #ahae ,until ,h4 ,r4 ,tedder wrote in ,dictionary of ,national ,biography that ,the ,life of ,napoleon had been wrongfully ascribed1 the author was generally supposed to be ,william ,combe1 who wrote ,the ,tour of ,doctor ,syntax in ,search of the ,picturesque1 etc471 #ba 7,the ,red ,man71 #ga-gb4 ,life 7,the7 of ,sir ,john ,falstaff4 ,illustrated by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,with a biography of the knight from authentic sources by ,robert ,b4 ,brough 7,london3 ,longman1 ,brown1 ,green1 ,longmans1 and ,roberts1 #aheh4 ,first issued in #aj monthly parts1 #aheg-h71 #ahd4 ,lilla 7,a long eared spaniel ,in the ,south ,kensington ,museum is a pretty pencil sketch1 #ighd ,f1 entitled ,george1 ,cruikshank's ,godson1 ,george ,cruikshank ,pulford1 and his dear little pet dog ,lilla1 and another pencil sketch1 #ifaa ,b1 entitled ,my little pet dog ,lilla71 #bbc4 ,lines4 ,see ,striking4 ,linse1 ,jan1 #aga4 ,locker-,lampson1 ,frederick1 #aei-afj4 ,london #cf1 #df1 #dg1 #if-ajg4 ,see ,life in ,london4 ,london ,hermit4 ,see ,peeps4 ,lottery ,print1 #ae4 ,see ,children's ,lottery4 ,louis ,,xviii4 7born #agee1 died #ahbd71 #g4 ,see ,old ,bumble-head4 ,lowell1 ,james ,russell1 #bcd4 ,loving 7,the7 ,ballad of ,lord ,bateman1 with ,,xi ,plates by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,charles ,tilt1 ,constantinople1 ,mustapha ,syried1 #ahci4 ,g4 ,cruikshank's drawing for his contemplated autobiography entitled ,the ,loving ,ballad of ,lord ,bateman1 appears in ,drawings by ,george ,cruikshank #ahie4 ,see ,drawings71 #bbi1 #bca-bcb4 ,loyalist's 7,the7 ,magazine4 ,see ,caroline4 ,mackay1 ,dr ,charles1 #ee4 ,maclise1 ,daniel 7died ,april #ahgj71 #bci4 ,magdalen ,see ,woman1 #bg4 ,making ,decent66 7,caricature published by ,g4 ,humphrey1 #h ,aug4 #ahbb4 ,invented by ,capt4 ,marryat whose signature is an anchor4 ,g4 ,cruikshank1 fect471 #aga4 ,mansie ,wauch4 ,see ,life of ,mansie4 ,marchmont1 ,frederick4 ,see ,cigar1 ,three ,cruikshanks4 ,marlborough1 ,john ,churchill1 ,duke of 7born #afej1 died #agbb71 #ij4 ,marryat1 ,capt4 ,frederick 7born #aj ,july #agib1 died #b ,aug4 #ahdh71 #ie1 #aff1 #aga4 ,see ,making1 ,progress4 ,mary ,i41 ,queen of ,england1 #hc4 ,mathew1 ,father ,theobald 7born #agij1 died #aheg71 #dh4 ,maxwell1 ,william ,hamilton1 #ic1 #bai4 ,see ,history of the4 ,mayhew1 ,the ,brothers1 #adi1 #aea4 ,see ,good ,genius1 ,greatest4 ,mayhew1 ,henry4 ,see ,world's4 ,mayor 7,the7 of ,hole-cum-,corner 7frontispiece to vol4 #a4 of ,douglas ,jerrold's ,cakes and ,ale #ahdb71 #bjd4 ,meditations ,amongst the ,tombs 7print pub4 #a ,may #ahac1 by ,j4 ,johnston71 #bd4 ,melange 7,the71 a variety of ,original ,pieces in ,prose and ,verse2 comprising the ,elysium of ,animals4 ,illustrated by engravings4 7,by ,egerton ,smith4 ,liverpool3 ,egerton ,smith ,co41 #ahcd71 #bbj4 ,melville1 ,h41 #abj4 ,memoir 7,a7 of ,george ,cruikshank1 ,artist and ,humourist4 ,with numerous illustrations and a ,l#a ,bank ,note4 ,by ,walter ,hamilton1 ,f4,r4,g4,s4 7,london3 ,elliot ,stock1 #ahgh4 ,students should get the #bnd edition1 also dated #ahgh1 which contains additional matter71 #aab1 #bca4 ,memoirs of ,joseph ,grimaldi4 ,edited by ',boz4' ,with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank ,in two volumes 7,london4 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahch71 #aie4 ,memoirs of the ,life and ,writings of ,lord ,byron4 ,by ,george ,clinton1 ,esq4 7,london3 ,james ,robins ,co41 #ahbe4 ,two editions are of this date2 one has #dc plates1 the other #dj71 #acd1 #aie4 ,merry 7,the7 ,wives of ,windsor #aia4 ,meteor 7,the71 or ,monthly ,censor 7vol #a and #b ,nos of vol ii1 ,london3 printed by ,w4 ,lewis1 and sold by ,t4 ,hughes #ahad71 #ce1 #abi4 ,meynell1 ,mrs ,alice 7author under her maiden name of ,a ,bundle of ,rue3 ,being ,memorials of artists recently deceased ,i4 ,george ,cruikshank ,this chapter appeared in ,the ,magazine of ,art1 ,march #ahhj71 #ce4 ,michelangelo1 #abj4 ,midsummer ,night's ,dream4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #ahec4 ,miller1 ,henry1 #afj4 ,milton1 ,john1 #aai4 ,minor ,morals for ,young ,people4 ,illustrated in ,tales and ,travels4 ,by ,john ,bowring4 ,with engravings by ,george ,cruikshank and ,william ,heath 7,london3 ,whittaker ,co41 #ahcd4 ,the same publishers in #ahce issued ,part ,,ii of this work illustrated by ,george ,cruikshank alone1 who also is the sole illustrator of ,part ,,iii issued in ,edinburgh by ,william ,tait1 in ,london by ,simpkin1 ,marshall ,co41 and in ,dublin by ,john ,cumming1 #ahci71 #acc4 ,miser's 7,the7 ,daughter4 ,a ,tale by ,william ,harrison ,ainsworth 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,cunningham ,mortimer1 #ahdb71 #hf1 #hg1 #hh4 ,moir1 ,david ,macbeth 7born #agih1 died #ahea74 ,see ,life of ,mansie4 ,monstrosities4 ,see ,juvenile1 ,mushroom4 ,monstrosities of #ahaf1 scene1 ,hyde ,park 7caricature by ,g4 ,cruikshank pub4 by ,h4 ,humphrey1 #ab ,march #ahaf71 #g4 ,monstrosities of #ahbb 7caricature by ,g4 ,cruikshank1 pub4 by ,g4 ,humphrey ,pub4 #ai ,oct4 #ahbb71 #g4 ,monthly 7,the7 ,theatrical ,reporter1 or ,literary ,mirror1 by ,thomas ,dutton1 ,a4 ,m4 7,london3 ,j4 ,roach4 #ahad-ae71 #ahd4 ,moore1 ,dr ,a41 #ga4 ,see ,annals4 ,moore1 ,julian1 #hi4 ,see ,three ,cruikshanks4 ,moore1 ,thomas1 #ai4 ,more ,mornings at ,bow ,street4 ,a new ,collection of ,humourous and ,entertaining ,reports1 by ,john ,wight of the ,morning ,herald1 with twenty five illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,james ,robins ,co41 #ahbg71 #dg4 ,mornings at ,bow ,street3 a ,selection of the most humourous and entertaining reports which have appeared in the ,morning ,herald1 by ,mr ,wight 7,bow ,street3 ,reporter to the ,morning ,herald7 with twenty-one illustrative drawings by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,charles ,baldwyn #ahbd71 #dg4 ,see ,thompson1 ,john4 ,mother ,hubbard and her ,dog1 a ,banbury ,chap-,book designed by ,george ,cruikshank 7early work7 and engraved by ,branston1 #aee4 ,mother's 7,a7 ,love4 ,see ,three4 ,mottram1 ,charles1 engraver 7born #i ,april #ahjg1 died #cj ,aug4 #ahgf74 ,see ,worship of ,bacchus or4 ,mrs ,clark's ,petticoat 7caricature published by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores1 #bc ,feb4 #ahji71 #bf4 ,mudford1 ,william1 #ga4 ,see ,historical4 ,mummies4 ,see ,history of ,egyptian4 ,munchausen4 ,see ,travels and4 ,mushroom ,monstrosities 7caricature published by ,g4 ,humphrey1 #bd ,jan4 #ahbf4 ,reprinted in ,cruikshankiana71 #g4 ,my ,sketch ,book1 by ,george ,cruikshank 7#i numbers published by ,george ,cruikshank1 #bc ,myddelton ,terrace1 ,pentonville1 #ahcd1 #ahce1 #ahcf71 #fj1 #ajh1 #baa1 #bai-bbj4 ,nagler1 ,dr41 #fe4 ,nairs4 ,see ,coronation4 ,napier1 ,gen4 ,sir ,charles ,james1 ,g4,c4,b4 7born #aj ,aug4 #aghb1 died #bi ,aug4 #ahec71 #ajc4 ,napier ,gen4 ,sir ,william ,francis ,patrick 7born #ag ,dec4 #aghe1 died #aj ,feb4 #ahfj74 ,see ,pop-,gun4 ,napoleon ,buonaparte 7born #ae ,aug4 #agfi1 died #e ,may #ahba71 #c1 #ag-ba1 #ga-gb1 #acc1 #aei4 ,see ,blucher1 ,boney1 ,boney's1 ,boney ,tir'd1 ,imperial1 ,life of ,napoleon1 ,napoleon's1 ,old ,bumble-head1 ,peddigree1 ,phenix4 ,napoleon's ,trip from ,elba to ,paris1 and from ,paris to ,st ,helena 7caricature by ,g4 ,cruikshank appearing in ,the ,scourge for ,sept4 #ahae74 ,netherlands4 ,see ,historical4 ,nevison1 #gg4 ,new 7,the7 ,bath ,guide2 or ,memoirs of the ,b-n-r-d ,family1 in a series of ,poetical ,epistles3 by ,christopher ,anstey1 ,esq4444 ,a new edition3 with a biographical and topographical preface1 and anecdotal annotations1 by ,john ,britton1 ,f4,s4,a41 and member of several other societies4 ,embellished with engravings 7,london3 ,hurst1 ,chance ,co41 #ahcj71 #age4 ,newcastle1 ,duke of1 #ia4 ,newton1 ,sir ,isaac1 #gd4 ,new 7,the7 ,union ,club4 ,being a representation of what took place at a celebrated dinner given by a celebrated ,society--vide ,mr ,m-r-t's ,pamphlet1 ,more ,thoughts1 etc4 etc 7,j--,g ,cruikshank sculpt4 ,pub4 #ai ,july #ahai1 by ,g4 ,humphrey4 ,in ,capt4 ,r4 ,j4 ,h4 ,douglas's opinion this is the chef d'oeuvre of ,george ,cruikshank's ,caricatures4 ,it did not impress me particularly4 ,it humourously satirises ,william ,wilberforce's ,anti-,slavery ,movement74 ,nield1 ,w4 ,a41 #bac4 ',non ,mi ,ricordo6' c4 c4 c4 7,london3 ,william ,hone the author1 #ahbj74 ,see ,fat in the ,fire1 also #be4 ,nottage1 ,george ,s4 7the letter referred to is in the ,george ,cruikshank coll41 ,south ,kensington ,museum1 and is dated ,july #be1 #ahgd1 from the ,london ,stereoscopic ,co471 #bab4 ,o',hara1 ,kane4 ,see ,tom4 ,oil 7,the7 painting of ,the ,worship of ,bacchus1 #ac feet #d by #g feet #h1 being conveyed to the ,national ,gallery ,department of the ,british ,museum1 ,april #h1 #ahfi1 #ff4 ,old ,bumble-head the #ahth trying on the ,napoleon ,boots1 or ,preparing for the ,spanish ,campaign 7caricature by ,g4 ,cruikshank1 pub4 by ,jno4 ,fairburn1 #ag ,feb4 #ahbc71 #g4 ,oldcastle1 ,sir ,john1 #ahd4 ,old ,sailor4 ,see ,barker1 ,m4 ,h4 ,old 7,the7 ,sailor's ,jolly ,boat4 ,laden with ,tales1 ,yarns1 ,scraps1 ,fragments1 c4 c4 ,to ,please all hands2 ,pulled by ,wit1 ,fun1 ,humor1 and ,pathos1 and steered by ,m4 ,h4 ,barker 7,london3 ,w4 ,strange2 ,nottingham3 ,allen2 ,leicester3 ,allen1 #ahhd1 first appeared in #ab parts commencing #a ,may #ahdc71 #ie1 #age4 ,old 7,an7 ,story1 by ,s4 ,c4 ,hall1 ,f4,s4,a41 c4 7,london3 ,virtue1 ,spalding1 ,co41 #ahge4 ,to this vol4 ,george ,cruikshank contributed his last temperance piece--,the ,last ,half ,hour1 engraved by ,dalziel ,brothers71 #fi4 ,oliver ,twist4 ,by ,charles ,dickens 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahch4 ,the first issue of the first edition contains the etching entitled ,rose ,maylie and ,oliver known to collectors as the ,fireside plate1 which ,dickens disliked so much that in ,oct4 #ahch he wrote to ,cruikshank asking him if he would object to design the plate afresh the result being the etching of ,rose and ,oliver contemplating the memorial tablet to ,agnes4 ,nevertheless ,cruikshank made a water colour drawing of the ,fireside plate1 which was published in ,cruikshank's water colours with introduction by ,joseph ,grego1 published by ,a4 ,c4 ,black early in #aijd--the date on title page being #aijc71 #i 7fireside plate7 #fj1 #ii 7,mr ,bumble71 #ajc-ajd4 ,o',meara1 ,dr41 #bg4 ,o',neill1 ,john1 #eb4 ,see ,drunkard4 ,on ,guard4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #aheh4 ,o4 ,p4 7,old ,prices7 riots1 #aa1 ,original ,sketch by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,her ,majesty and the ,prince ,consort at the ,ball at ,guildhall1 ,july #ahea4 ,mr and ,mrs ,george ,cruikshank passing before them and the ,prince kindly saying to her ,majesty that is ,george ,cruikshank1 at which her most gracious ,majesty smiled and bowed 7,no4 #ided in the ,george ,cruikshank collection at the ,south ,kensington ,museum4 ,the etching of this subject ,see ,no4 #ided-a was never completed1 but promised well71 #bdg4 ,osnaburg or ,osnabrueck1 ,hanover4 ,on #bg ,feb4 #agfd1 ,prince ,frederick1 afterwards ,duke of ,york and ,albany1 was elected to the bishopric of ,osnaburg which he retained till #ahjc1 when the bishopric was secularised and incorporated with ,hanover4 ,p999999y1 ,j41 #aga ,see ,brazen4 ,palace 7,g4 ,cruikshank's ,design for a palace is ,no4 #icif ,a 7a sheet of paper covered on both sides with pencil sketches of various subjects7 in the ,george ,cruikshank collection in the ,south ,kensington ,museum71 #bdg4 ,paradise ,lost1 #aai4 ,paris4 ,see ,life in ,paris4 ,passing ,events 7etching in ,george ,cruikshank's ,magazine1 ,feb4 #ahed71 #ci1 #bbd4 ,patricius1 #ae4 ,peacock1 ,thomas ,love1 #bbd4 ,pearce1 ,john1 #fi4 ,pearson1 ,edwin1 author of ,banbury ,chap-,books and ,nursery ,toy ,book ,literature 7of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries7 with impressions from several hundred wood-cut blocks1 by ,t4 and ,j4 ,bewick1 ,blake1 ,cruikshank1 ,craig1 ,lee1 ,austin1 and others 7,london3 ,arthur ,reader1 #ahij71 #aee4 ,see ,dick ,whittington4 ,peddigree sic 7,the7 of ,corporal ,violet 7caricature published by ,h4 ,humphrey1 #i ,june #ahae71 #aei4 ,peeps at ,life1 and ,studies in my ,cell1 by the ,london ,hermit 7,london3 ,simpkin1 ,marshall ,co41 #ahge71 #acf1 #bdi4 ,pentamerone 7,the71 or the ,story of ,stories1 ,fun for the ,little ,ones1 by ,giambattista ,basile4 ,translated from the ,neapolitan by ,john ,edward ,taylor4 ,with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahdh71 #aea-aeb1 #bab4 ,peter ,schlemihl3 from the ,german of ,lamotte ,fouque should be ,adelbert von ,chamisso4 ,with plates by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,geo4 ,b4 ,whittaker1 #ahbc71 #abe1 #abf1 #abg4 ,pettigrew1 ,thomas ,joseph ,see ,augustus1 ,history of ,egyptians4 ,phenix sic 7,the7 of ,elba ,resuscitated by ,treason 7caricature published in ,the ,scourge for ,may #ahae71 #bd4 ,phrenological ,illustrations1 or an ,artist's ,view of the ,craniological ,system of ,doctors ,gall and ,spurzheim1 by ,george ,cruikshank4 7,london3 published by ,george ,cruikshank1 ,myddelton ,terrace1 ,pentonville1 #ahbf71 #gb1 #agc1 #agi-ahj4 ,piccini1 #acj4 ,pic ,nic 7,the7 ,papers4 ,see ,sir ,lionel4 ,pied ,piper1 #aei4 ,pilgrim's 7,the7 ,progress1 by ,john ,bunyan4 ,most carefully collated with the edition containing the author's last additions and corrections4 ,with explanatory notes by ,william ,mason4 ,and a life of the author1 by ,josiah ,conder1 ,esq4 7,fisher1 ,son1 ,co1 ,london and ,paris1 #ahch71 #abj4 ,pilgrim's 7,the7 ,progress1 by ,john ,bunyan1 illustrated with #be drawings on wood by ,george ,cruikshank1 from the collection of ,edwin ,truman1 with biographical introduction and indexes 7,london1 ,edinburgh1 ,glasgow1 and ,new ,york3 ,henry ,frowde1 #aijc71 #abj1 #abe4 ,pinwell1 ,george ,john 7water-colour painter1 born #bf ,dec4 #ahdb1 died #h ,sept #ahge71 #aef4 ,pirate 7,the71 by ,sir ,walter ,scott1 #bcg4 ,pocket 7,the7 ,magazine4 ,robins's ,series 7#d vols41 ,london3 ,james ,robins ,co41 #ahbg1 #ahbh71 #adg4 ,points of ,humour2 illustrated by the ,designs of ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,c4 ,baldwyn1 #ahbc1 #ahbd71 #gc-gd1 #acf1 #afg1 #agb4 ,pop-,gun 7,a7 fired off by ,george ,cruikshank in defence of the ,british volunteers of #ahjc1 against the uncivil attack upon that body by ,general ,w4 ,napier1 to which are added some observations upon our ,national ,defences1 ,self-,defence1 c4 c4 c4 ,illustrated with ,cuts 7,london3 ,w4 ,kent ,co41 late ,d4 ,bogue4 ,the ,british ,museum copy is stamped #aj ,february #ahfj71 #dd1 #ei1 #fj4 ,popular ,romances of the ,west of ,england or1 ,the ,drolls ,traditions and ,superstitions of ,old ,cornwall ,collected and edited by ,robert ,hunt ,f4 ,r4 ,s4 7#b vols41 ,london3 ,j4 ,camden ,hotten1 #ahfe71 #bdd4 ,portland1 ,duke of 7,william ,henry ,cavendish ,bentinck-,scott7 #abi ,portraits 7sketch made in #ahgd71 #bab4 ,pound1 ,d4 ,j41 engraver1 ,see ,cruikshank ,george4 ,poussin1 ,nicholas 7born ,june #aeid1 died #ai ,nov4 #affe71 #fi4 ,poynter1 ,sir ,edward1 #fi4 ,preparing ,john ,bull for ,general ,congress 7caricature1 dated as published ,aug4 #a1 #ahac1 which appeared in vol4 vi4 of ,the ,scourge1 #ahac71 #g1 #dc4 ,prince ,consort4 ,see ,albert4 ,princely ,agility or the ,sprained ,ancle 7print pub4 ,jan4 #ahab1 by ,j4 ,johnston71 #ih ,cheapside1 #bd4 ,progress 7,the7 of a ,midshipman 7#h designs invented by ,capt4 ,marryat1 etched by ,george ,cruikshank1 published by ,g4 ,humphrey1 ,london #ahbj71 #ie4 ,puck1 #ahd4 ,pughe1 ,j4 ,s41 #bab4 ,pulford1 ,george ,cruikshank4 ,see ,lilla4 ,punch and ,judy1 with illustrations designed and engraved by ,george ,cruikshank4 ,accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet show1 an account of its origin1 and of puppet-plays in ,england 7,london3 ,s4 ,prowett1 #ahbh4 ,the text is by ,john ,payne ,collier71 #acj1 #aca4 ,punch1 or the ,london ,charivari1 #bcd4 ,pure1 ,simon1 #fe4 ,pursuit 7,the7 of ,letters 7etching ,designed1 ,etched and ,published by ,geo4 ,cruikshank1 ,may #bjth1 #ahbh1 in ,scraps and ,sketches71 #bab4 ,puss in ,boots 7,george ,cruikshank's ,fairy ,library1 ,no4 #d1 ,london3 ,routledge ,warne ,routledge ,broadway1 ,ludgate ,hill1 and ,f4 ,arnold1 #hf ,fleet ,street1 #ahfd71 #adj1 #aeg4 ,queen's 7,the7 ,matrimonial ,ladder1 by the author of ,the ,political ,house that ,jack ,built 7,london3 ,william ,hone the author1 #ahbj71 #be1 #bf4 ,see ,white4 ,rabelais1 #aff4 ,railway ,readings4 ,see ,cigar4 ,rambles in the ,footsteps of ,don ,quixote4 ,by the late ,h4 ,d4 ,inglis1 author of ,spain' ',new ,gil ,blas1 or ,pedro of ,penaflor'3 ',the ,tyrol'3 ',channel ,islands1' c4 c4 ,with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,whittaker ,co41 #ahcg71 #bjj4 ,ranelagh1 #hf1 #hi4 ,raspe1 ,r4 ,e41 creator of ,baron ,munchausen1 #ahc1 #ahd4 ,see ,travels4 ,reach1 ,angus ,b4 ,see ,clement4 ,read4 ,see ,brooks4 ,redgauntlet1 by ,sir ,walter ,scott1 #aib4 ,red 7,the7 ,man 7engraving by ,george ,cruikshank in ,the ,life of ,napoleon by ,dr ,syntax71 #ba1 #gb4 ,regent 7,the7 ,kicking up a ,row1 or ,warwick ,house in an ,uproar666 7caricature by ,g4 ,cruikshank published #bj ,july #ahad1 by ,t4 ,tegg4 ,in this caricature the ,prince ,regent declares he has burst his stays71 #bc4 ,reid1 ,george ,william1 compiler of the bibliography entitled ,a ,descriptive ,catalogue of the works of ,george ,cruikshank 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,bell ,daldy1 #ahga4 ,mr ,a4 ,m4 ,broadley possesses the latest corrected and annotated copy of ,reid's ,george ,cruikshank catalogue1 annotated and corrected by him1 in a very voluminous manner1 with a view to a second edition71 #ab1 #af1 #abj1 #acd4 ,rejected ,addresses3 or1 ,the ,new ,theatrum ,poetarum1 by ,james ,smith and ,horace ,smith4 #ahth ed4 7,london3 ,john ,murray1 #ahcc71 #aie4 ,rembrandt van ,ryn 7born #ae ,july #afjf1 died #affi71 #adg4 ,renard1 ,simon1 #hb1 #hc4 ,results of the ,northern ,excursion 7print showing ,george ,,iv4 relieving an irritated cuticle1 pub4 by ,j4 ,fairburn1 #h ,sept4 #ahbb71 #be4 ,return 7,the7 to ,office 7caricature by ,g4 ,cruikshank published in ,the ,scourge for #a ,july #ahaa71 #bf4 ,richard ,,iii1 #ahd4 ,richardson1 ,sir ,benjamin ,ward1 #ei1 #ajh4 ,see ,drawings4 ,roach1 ,j41 #ahd4 ,robinson ,crusoe4 ,see ,life and4 ,rome1 ,king of1 #gb4 ,romeo and ,juliet1 #ahd4 ,see ,juliet4 ,rookwood1 a romance by ,wm4 ,harrison ,ainsworth 7,london3 ,john ,macrone1 #ahcf71 #ge1 #gg4 ,roscoe1 ,thomas4 ,see ,adventures of ,gil1 ,adventures of ,joseph1 ,history and4 ,rose 7,the7 and the ,lily3 how they became the emblems of ,england and ,france4 ,a ,fairy ,tale ,by ,mrs ,octavian ,blewitt4 ,with a frontispiece by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,chatto ,windus1 #ahgg4 ,the etched frontispiece bears the inscription ,designed and ,etched by ,george ,cruikshank1 ,age #hc1 #ahge71 #a1 #acd-ace4 ,rose 7,the7 and the ,ring1 by ,w4 ,m4 ,thackeray1 #aif4 ,rowlandson1 ,thomas 7born #agef1 died #ahbg71 #g1 #aa1 #af1 #ai1 #ea1 #if-ig1 #aia4 ,see ,grego1 ,joseph4 ,royal 7,the7 ,academy of ,arts 7,george ,cruikshank exhibited in the ,exhibitions of this ,academy pictures entitled as follows1 the dates being those of the exhibitions4 ,fitting out ,moses for the fair1 #ahcj4 ,this picture illustrates ,the ,vicar of ,wakefield4 ,tam o' ,shanter1 #aheb4 ,this picture illustrates the lines-- ,and scarcely had he ,maggie rallied1 ,when out the hellish legion sallied--,burns4 ,a ,scene from the ,midsummer ,night's ,dream--,titania1 ,bottom1 ,mustard ,seed1 ,peas ,blossom1 ,moth1 and ,cobweb1 #ahec ,this picture illustrates the line ,nod to him elves1 and do him courtesies4 ,cinderella1 #ahed4 ,on ,guard1 #aheh4 ,cinderella1 #ahei4 ,the ,sober ,man's ,sunday and the ,drunkard's ,sunday1 #ahei4 ,the first appearance of ,william ,shakespeare on the stage of the ,globe1 with part of his dramatic company1 in #aefd1 #ahfg71 #bdj4 ,royal 7,the7 ,aquarium1 ,london1 #fi1 #ajg1 #afj4 ,royal 7,the7 ,rushlight 7print published by ,g4 ,humphrey #c ,march #ahba71 #be4 ,r-y-l ,stripes4 ,see ,kick4 ,rubens1 ,peter ,paul 7born #bh ,june #aegg1 died #cj ,may #afdj71 #fi4 ,rusher1 printer of ,banbury1 ,oxfordshire1 #aee4 ,ruskin1 ,john 7,no4 #iiee ,g in the ,george ,cruikshank collection in the ,south ,kensington ,museum is a pen-sketch entitled ,mr ,ruskin's ,head4 ,the head has no beard71 #adg1 #aee-aef1 #aei1 #bdd1 #bdg4 ,russell1 ,george 7,a4 ,e471 #afa4 ,sailors1 #ie-if4 ,sailor's 7,the7 ,progress1 series of etched illustrations in #f compartments1 signed ,i4,j ,s4 and ,g4 ,,ck4 delt41 ,g4 ,,ck4 sculpt41 published #aj ,jan4 #ahah by ,g4 ,humphrey1 #ie4 ,saint ,james's or the ,court of ,queen ,anne4 ,an ,historical ,romance by ,william ,harrison ,ainsworth 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,john ,mortimer1 #ahdd71 #ij1 #ia4 ,sala1 ,george ,augustus 7author of ,george ,cruikshank3 ,a ,life ,memory1 in ,the ,gentleman's ,magazine1 ,may #ahgh71 #ae1 #gg4 ,satan1 #bh1 #aai1 #acc1 #acd1 #bdd4 ,satirist 7,the71 or ,monthly ,meteor 7#ad vols41 ,london3 ,samuel ,tipper1 #ahjh-ahad4 ,george ,cruikshank's signature appears to plates in ,new ,series1 vol4 iii41 #ahac1 vol4 iv41 #ahad4 ,he also contributed plates to ,the ,tripod1 or ,new ,satirist1 for #ahad1 ,july #a and ,aug4 #a1 the only numbers published71 #ce4 ,savoyards4 ,see ,french4 ,scale 7,the7 of ,justice ,reversed 7caricature published #ai ,march #ahae1 by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores71 #e4 ,scene 7,a7 from the ,midsummer ,night's ,dream4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #ahec4 ,schopenhauer1 ,arthur1 #bjg4 ,scotch ,washing 7,cruikshank del41 published by ,t4 ,tegg1 #af ,aug4 #ahaj71 #age4 ,scott1 ,sir ,walter1 #ha1 #aci1 #adg4 ,see ,landscape-,historical1 ,twelve4 ,scourge 7,the71 or ,monthly ,expositor of ,imposture and ,folly 7#aa vols417 ,london1 #ahaa-ahaf2 continued in #ahaf as ,the ,scourge and ,satirist1 of which only #f numbers appeared2 #g and #dc 7,preparing ,john ,bull for ,general ,congress71 #ai 7,napoleon's ,trip from ,elba71 #bj 7,quadrupeds71 #bd 7,the ,coronation of the ,empress of the ,nairs and ,the ,phenix of ,elba71 #bf 7,the ,return to ,office71 #bg 7,interior ,view of the ,house of ,god and ,john ,bull's ,three ,stages71 #ca 7,the ,cow ,pox ,tragedy71 #ea 7,the ,dinner of the ,four-in-hand ,club71 #aci-adj 7,a ,financial ,survey of ,cumberland74 ,scraps and ,sketches1 by ,george ,cruikshank 7#d parts #ahbh-ahcb and one plate #ahcd published by the ,artist at #bb ,myddelton also spelt ,myddleton ,terrace1 ,pentonville4 ,in #ahcj ,george ,cruikshank writes that ,scraps and ,sketches is the third work which ,i have published on my own account71 #ce-cf1 #cg1 #ci1 #ea1 #aaa-aab1 #aaf1 #adc1 #afc1 #agb1 #bjd1 #bab1 #bae-baf1 #bbc4 ,sellis1 #adj4 ,seymour1 ,jane1 #ij4 ,shakespeare1 ,william1 #ahc-ahd1 #ahg-ahh4 ,see ,first1 ,life1 ,juliet1 ,royal ,academy1 #ahec1 #ahfg4 ,shakespeare's ,cliff1 #ajg1 #ajh4 ,see ,distant4 ,sheppard1 ,jack1 #gi1 #hj ,see ,jack4 ,sheridan1 ,richard ,brinsley ,butler 7born ,sept4 #agea1 died #g ,july #ahaf71 #ae4 ,see ,impostor4 ,sheringham1 ,lieut4 ,john1 #ie4 ,sir ,frizzle ,pumpkin4 ,see ,adventures of ,sir4 ,sir ,lionel ,flamstead1 a ,sketch1 by ,w4 ,harrison ,ainsworth1 identical with ,the ,old ,london ,merchant1 a ,fragment1 which was ,ainsworth's contribution to ,the ,pic ,nic ,papers4 ,by ,various ,hands4 ,edited by ,charles ,dickens1 ,esq4444 ,with illustrations by ,george ,cruikshank1 ,phiz1 c4 ,in three volumes 7,london3 ,henry ,colburn1 #ahda71 #ic4 ,sketches by ',boz1' illustrative of every-day life1 and every-day people 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,john ,macrone1 #ahcf1 #ahcg4 ,many of the illustrations were enlarged and re-etched for the edition1 complete in one vol41 published by ,chapman ,hall in #ahci1 and issued in #bj numbers71 #ii-ajj1 #aja1 #aje1 #aab4 ,sleap1 ,joseph1 #ce4 ,slice 7,a7 of ,bread and ,butter1 ,cut by ,g4 ,cruikshank4 ,being the substance of a speech delivered at a public meeting1 held for the benefit of the ,jews' and ,general ,literary and ,mechanics' ,institute 7,london3 ,william ,tweedie71 #ei4 ,smirke1 ,robert 7painter1 born #ageb1 died #e ,jan4 #ahde2 the date of his illustrations of ,gil ,blas is #ahji71 #aii4 ,smith1 ,albert1 #ci4 ,smith1 ,egerton4 ,see ,elysium1 ,melange4 ,smith1 ,horace 7born #aggi1 died #ahdi74 ,see ,rejected4 ,smith1 ,james 7born #agge1 died #ahci74 ,see ,rejected4 ,smoking1 #eh1 #ei4 ,see ,tobacco4 ,smollett1 ,tobias1 #ij1 #ahd1 #ahh1 #aia4 ,see ,illustrations of ,smollett4 ,sober 7,the7 ,man's ,sunday1 and the ,drunkard's ,sunday4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #ahei4 ,socrates1 #ahj1 #aha4 ,songs1 ,naval and ,national1 of the late ,charles ,dibdin1 with a memoir and addenda collected and arranged by ,thomas ,dibdin1 with characteristic sketches by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,john ,murray1 #ahda71 #age1 #bde4 ,sotheby1 ,wilkinson ,hodge1 #ac ,wellington ,street1 ,strand1 ,london1 ,w4 ,c41 #gj1 #ajh1 #aai1 #afj4 ,south ,kensington ,museum 7,victoria and ,albert ,museum71 collection of ,george ,cruikshank's work1 #ac1 #aaa1 #aab1 #aac4 ,see ,christian1 ,first1 ,lilla1 ,original1 ,palace1 ,ruskin4 ,specimens of ,german ,romance1 selected and translated by ,g4 ,soane from various authors4 ,in three volumes 7,london3 ,geo4 ,b4 ,whittaker1 #ahbf71 #aea 7,e4 ,t4 ,w4 ,hoffmann1 q4 v474 ,spencer1 ,walter1 #ajg4 ,spielmann1 ,marion ,h4 7,f4,s4,a471 #abj4 ,stays4 ,see ,regent4 ,steel1 #aib1 #bcf4 ,stephens1 ,frederic ,g4 7author of ,a ,memoir of ,george ,cruikshank1 to which is added ,thackeray's ,essay ,on the ,genius of ,george ,cruikshank1 ,london3 ,sampson ,low1 ,marston1 ,searle ,rivington1 #ahia71 #cb1 #ic4 ,stewart1 ,john1 #ff4 ,stop ,thief2 or1 ,hints to ,housekeepers to ,prevent ,housebreaking4 ,by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,bradbury ,evans1 #ahea4 ,g4 and ,r4 ,cruikshank assisted in the embellishment of ,lieut4 ,col4 ,baron ,de ,berenger's ,helps and ,hints ,how to ,protect ,life and ,property ,london3 ,t4 ,hurst1 #ahce71 #eh4 ,stowe1 ,harriet ,beecher4 ,see ,uncle4 ,striking ,effects ,produced by ,lines and ,dots for the assistance of young ,draftsmen 7#b etchings published respectively #d ,aug4 #ahag and #bc ,sept4 #ahag by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores4 ,in the same year ,g4 ,blackman1 #cfb ,oxford ,st1 ,london1 published #b more etchings by ,george ,cruikshank entitled ,twelve ,subjects formed by ,dots and ,lines pub4 #ad ,june and ,nine ,subjects formed by ,dots and ,lines pub #ai ,july4 ,to ,george ,cruikshank is also attributed an etching entitled ,another ,series formed of ,lines and ,dots71 #bdc4 ,stubb's ,calendar2 or1 the ,fatal ,boots1 #aif4 ,sunday in ,london4 ,illustrated in fourteen cuts1 by ,george ,cruikshank1 and a few words by a friend of his2 with a copy of ,sir ,andrew ,agnew's ,bill 7,london3 ,effingham ,wilson1 #ahcc2 the friend in the title is ,john ,wight71 #ea1 #ii4 ,sussex1 ,duke of4 ,see ,augustus1 ,illustrations of ,popular4 ,syntax1 ,dr41 #ga4 ,see ,life of ,napoleon4 ,table 7,the7 ,book4 ,see ,every-,day4 ,tales of ,irish ,life1 illustrative of the manners1 customs and conditions of the people1 by ,i4 ,whitty 7#b vols41 ,london3 ,j4 ,robins ,co41 #ahbd71 #ic4 ,talpa3 or the ,chronicles of a ,clay ,farm4 ,an ,agricultural ,fragment4 ,by ,c4 ,w4 ,h4 7,london3 ,reeve ,co41 #aheb4 ,the author is ,c4 ,w4 ,hoskyns71 #bjh4 ,tam o' ,shanter4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #aheb4 ,temperance1 #dh1 #di1 #eb et seq41 #bdg ,george ,cruikshank's ,last temperance piece was ,the ,last ,half ,hour in ,s4 ,c4 ,hall's ,an ,old ,story 7#ahge74 ,see ,bottle1 ,drunkard1 ,drunkard's1 ,glass1 ,oil1 ,worship4 ,tenniel1 ,sir ,john1 #agf4 ,thackeray1 ,william ,makepeace 7born #ah ,july #ahaa1 died #bc or #bd ,dec4 #ahfc71 #a1 #be1 #fi1 #gh #aif1 #bca-bcb4 ,see ,stephens1 ,frederic ,g4 ,thames1 #gh4 ,thistlewood1 ,arthur 7born #aggj1 hanged #a ,may #ahbj71 #c1 #ce4 ,thompson1 ,alice4 ,see ,meynell1 ,mrs ,alice4 ,thompson1 ,john 7wood-engraver1 born #be ,may #aghe1 died #bj ,feb4 #ahff4 ,at the ,paris ,exhibition of #ahee1 he was awarded the grand medal of honour for wood-engraving4 ,he engraved the cuts for ,mornings at ,bow ,street and ,the ,beauties of ,washington ,irving1 c471 #abf1 #abi1 #afb1 #bci4 ,see ,true4 ,thomson1 ,james1 #aa4 ,thornhill1 ,sir ,james 7,hogarth's father-in-law71 #gh4 ,three ,courses and a ,dessert4 ,the ,decorations by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,vizetelly1 ,branston ,co41 #ahcj4 ,the author is ,w4 ,clarke71 #bae4 ,three 7,the7 ,cruikshanks4 ,a ,bibliographical ,catalogue1 describing more than #ejj works 444 illustrated by ,isaac1 ,george1 and ,robert ,cruikshank1 compiled by ,frederick ,marchmont4444 ,the introduction by ,julian ,moore1 with illustrations 7,london3 ,w4 ,t4 ,spencer1 #ahig4 ,a useful book4 ,prices are appended1 which should not in some instances be paid by the collector who has time to look about him4 ,the frontispiece1 reproducing ,george ,cruikshank's oil-painting ,a ,mother's ,love1 reminds one of ,william ,blake's drawing in sepia of a mother discovering her child in an eagle's nest74 ,time4 ,see ,illustrations of ,time4 ,titian 7,tiziano ,vecellio71 #b1 #fi4 ,tobacco 7,the most interesting anti-tobacco publication associated with ,george ,cruikshank is ,what ,put ,my ,pipe ,out2 or1 ,incidents in the ,life of a ,clergyman1 published in ,london by ,s4 ,w4 ,partridge1 #ahfb71 #eh1 #ei4 ,tom ,thumb2 a ,burletta1 altered from ,henry ,fielding1 by ,kane ,o',hara4 ,with ,designs by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,thomas ,rodd1 #ahcj71 #aef 7where ,ruskin may be supposed by anyone who thinks1 as ,i do not1 that he was incapable of a lapsus calami1 to refer to the designs for this volume74 ,topsail-,sheet ,blocks1 or1 ,the ,naval ,foundling4 ,by ',the ,old ,sailor' 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahch1 the author is ,m4 ,h4 ,barker71 #ie4 ,tothill ,fields1 #hg4 ,tower 7,the7 of ,london1 by ,william ,harrison ,ainsworth 7#ac parts1 the last #b forming a double part4 ,london3 ,richard ,bentley1 #ahdj71 #fj1 #ha-hb1 #hc1 #he4 ,town ,talk1 or ,living ,manners 7#e vols41 ,london3 ,j4 ,johnson1 #ahaa-ahad4 ,a periodical4 ,george ,cruikshank1 contributed to vols4 ii4 #ahab1 iv4 #ahac1 v4 #ahac71 #ce4 ,travels 7,the7 and ,surprising ,adventures of ,baron ,munchausen4 ,illustrated with ,five woodcuts by ,g4 ,cruikshank1 and ,twenty-two full-page curious engravings4 7,london3 ,william ,tegg1 #ahfg4 ,the author is ,r4 ,e4 ,raspe4 ,the ,cruikshank cuts were used before in other books1 says ,capt4 ,douglas4 ,george ,cruikshank also contributed a frontispiece to ,the ,surprising ,travels and ,adventures of the ,renowned ,baron ,munchausen1 printed and sold by ,dean ,munday1 ,threadneedle ,street1 ,london1 #ahag71 #bai4 ,triumph 7,the7 of ,cupid1 etching in ,george ,cruikshank's ,table-,book 7#ahde71 #fg1 #bbc-d4 ,true 7,the7 ,legend of ,st ,dunstan and the ,devil1 ,showing how the ,horse-,shoe came to be a ,charm against ,witchcraft4 ,by ,edward ,g4 ,flight4 ,with illustrations drawn by ,george ,cruikshank and engraved by ,john ,thompson 7,london3 ,d4 ,bogue1 #ahdh71 #aai1 #abb1 #abc4 ,trusler1 ,rev4 ,dr41 author of ,hogarth ,moralized4 7,for an edition of that work published by ,john ,major in #ahca1 ,george ,cruikshank engraved #d groups of heads after ,hogarth71 #gg4 ,turpin1 ,dick1 #ge1 #gg4 ,twain1 ,mark1 #bcd4 ,twelve ,sketches illustrative of ,sir ,walter ,scott's ,demonology and ,witchcraft1 by ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,j4 ,robins ,co41 #ahcj71 #aci1 #adg-adh4 ,uncle ,tom's ,cabin1 by ,harriet ,beecher ,stowe 7,london3 ,john ,cassell1 #aheb71 #aj1 #ci4 ,universal 7,the7 ,songster2 or ,museum of ,mirth3 forming the most complete1 extensive1 and valuable collection of ancient and modern songs in the ,english language4444 7#c vols41 ,london3 ,john ,fairburn1 #ahbe1 #ahbf71 #acf-acg4 ,vaccination4 ,see ,cow1 ,vaccination against ,vaccination against ,small ,pox or ,mercenary and ,merciless spreaders of ,death and ,devastation driven out of ,society 7caricature signed ,cruikshank del4 ,published by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores1 #bj ,june #ahjh71 #ca4 ,vicar 7,the7 of ,wakefield1 #aia-aib1 #aic4 ,see ,royal ,academy1 #ahcj4 ,victoria and ,albert ,museum4 ,see ,south ,kensington4 ,victoria1 ,queen1 #dj1 #dd1 #bdg4 ,see ,original4 ,voice 7,the7 of ,humanity for the ,communication and ,discussion of all subjects relative to the ,conduct of ,man towards the ,inferior ,animal ,creation 7,london3 ,j4 ,nisbet #ahcj sic4 ,the etching by ,geo4 ,cruikshank entitled ,the ,knackers sic ,yard1 or the ,horses sic last home6 is here without the notice ,licensed for ,slaughtering ,horses4 ,the ,knackers ,yard appeared in the number for ,may #ahca1 and re-appeared in vol iii the title-page of which is dateless1 with the words ,licensed for ,slaughtering ,horses1 added to the design4 ,in the first state of the plate as published is the date #ahca71 #bbj4 ,wardle1 ,col1 ,gwyllym ,lloyd 7member for ,oakhampton1 ,devon1 who1 in the ,house of ,commons1 #bg ,jan4 #ahji1 made the charge against the ,duke of ,york of implication in the misuse of money realised by the sale of commissions71 #bf4 ,watts1 ,george ,frederick 7born #ahag1 died #aijd71 #b4 ,waverley1 by ,sir ,walter ,scott1 #afi1 #age1 #aib4 ,wedmore1 ,frederick1 #ajj1 #aae4 ,westminster ,abbey1 #hf1 #hi4 ,what ,put ,my ,pipe ,out4 ,see ,tobacco4 ,whistler1 ,james ,mc,neill 7born circa #ahce1 died ,july #aijc71 #gh4 ,white1 engraver4 ,see ,life in ,paris4 7,there was a wood engraver called ,henry ,white1 a pupil of ,bewick who produced much good work1 notably the illustrations for ,hone's ',house that ,jack ,built1' ',the ,matrimonial ,ladder1' sic c4 ,vide ',bryan's ,dictionary of ,painters and ,engravers1 revised ed4 #aije74 ,white1 ,rev4 ,james 7born #ahjc1 died #ahfb74 ,see ,adventures of ,sir4 ,whittington1 ,see ,dick4 ,whitty1 ,i41 #ic4 ,see ,tales4 ,wight1 ,john4 ,see ,more1 ,mornings1 ,sunday4 ,wilberforce1 ,william 7born #bd ,aug4 #agei died #bi ,july #ahcc74 ,see ,new ,union4 ,wild1 ,jonathan1 #gi4 ,wilde1 ,oscar1 #ahc-ahd4 ,willesden ,churchyard1 #gi4 ,windsor ,castle1 an ,historical ,romance1 by ,w4 ,harrison ,ainsworth 7new edition1 illustrated by ,george ,cruikshank1 and ,tony ,johannot1 with designs on wood by ,w4 ,alfred ,delamotte4 ,london3 ,henry ,colborn1 #ahdc4 ,the first edition1 also #ahdc1 has only #c etchings71 #hi1 #ij1 #ace1 #acg4 ,winsor1 ,frederick ,albert4 ,see ,winzer4 ,winzer 7born #agfc1 died #aa ,may #ahcj4 ,one of the pioneers of gas lighting and son of ,friedrich ,albrecht ,winzer4 ,apparently he was named after his father1 but he anglicised his name and biography knows him as ,frederick ,albert ,winsor74 #ca4 ',wits 7,the7 ,magazine and ,attic ,miscellany' 7#b vols41 ,london3 ,thomas ,tegg1 #ahah71 #bji4 ,woman 7,the7 ,taken in ,adultery1 or ,mary ,magdalen 7caricature ascribed by ,g4 ,w4 ,reid to ,george ,cruikshank4 ,published by ,s4 ,w4 ,fores1 #ae ,march #ahji71 #bg4 ,women1 #dc4 ,woodward1 ,h4 #ab4 ,wooler1 ,thomas ,jonathan 7born #aghe or #aghf1 died #bi ,oct4 #ahec1 editor of ,the ,black ,dwarf which started #bi ,jan4 #ahag4 ,he was a tall man71 #ce4 ,works 7,the7 of ,george ,cruikshank ,classified and ,arranged with ,references to ,reid's ,catalogue and their approximate values ,by ,capt4 ,r4 ,j4 ,h4 ,douglas1 with a frontispiece 7,london3 printed by ,j4 ,davy ,sons1 #aijc4 ,though not quite exhaustive and with several errors this book is indispensable to the collector4 ,it is the only bibliography which attempts to include all the artist's works to the date of his death74 ,world's 7,the7 ,show1 #ahea1 or the ,adventures of ,mr and ,mrs ,sandboys and ,family1 who came up to ,london to enjoy themselves1 and to see the ,great ,exhibition1 by ,henry ,mayhew and ,george ,cruikshank 7,london3 ,david ,bogue1 #ahea4 ,first published in #h parts4 ,the title-page here quoted is the one designed by ,g4 ,cruikshank1 but above the first line of text the title is as quoted on p4 #dd74 ,worship 7,the7 of ,bacchus1 oil-painting by ,george ,cruikshank 7#ahfb71 #fe-gj4 ,see ,oil painting4 ,worship 7,the7 of ,bacchus1 or the ,drinking ,customs of ,society1 showing how universally the intoxicating liquors are used upon every occasion in life from the cradle to the grave4 ,the figures outlined on the steel plate by ,george ,cruikshank and the engraving finished by ,charles ,mottram 7,london3 ,william ,tweedie1 #ahfd71 #fe4 ,wright1 ,thomas 7,m4,a41 ,f4,s4,a471 ,author of ,caricature ,history of the ,georges 7#ahfg71 #aa4 ,xantippe1 #aha4 ,yarmouth1 ,the ,countess of #d1 #bd4 ,yedis1 #bh4 ,york1 ,duke of4 ,see ,frederick4 ,transcriber's ,notes3 ,missing punctuation has been added4 ,page #cb and sea--betweeen which they strut4 ,the word betweeen changed to between4 ,page #bga ,j ,small anchor ,page #bhj ,wardle1 ,col1 ,gwyllym ,lloyd 7member for ,oakhampton1 ,devon1 who1 in the ,house of ,commons1 #bg ,jany4 #ahji1 ,jany4 ,changed to ,jan4