George Cruikshank's life, times, and art. Volume I, 1792-1835

2017

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The etchings and wood-engravings of George Cruikshank (1792-1878) recorded, commented on and satirised his times to such an extent that they have frequently been used to represent the age. Cruikshank, a popular artist in the propaganda war against Napoleon, an ardent campaigner for Reform and Temperance and the foremost illustrator of such classics as Grimms' Fairy Tales, Scott's novels and Dicken's 'Oliver Twist', is known for his versatility, imagination, humour and incisive images. In this first volume of Robert Patten's two-volume biography, which covers the artist's Regency caricatures and early book illustrations, Patten demonstrates the ways in which Cruikshank was, as his contemporaries frequently declared, the Hogarth of the 19th century.