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  • Jack o'lantern as a demon standing among bullrushes at the water's edge at night and holding a lantern. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1842.
  • James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • Building materials marching out of London of their own accord to build suburban housing over greenfield sites. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
  • The tooth-ache. Imagined by Horace Mayhew
  • James Gillray, 'A pinch of cephalic'
  • W. Norris, confined in Bethlehem for 12 years
  • Illustration for 'the Goldeon Goose'
  • 'Indigestion', by Cruikshank
  • The Gin-Juggernath, by G. Cruikshank
  • Villagers shooting out their rubbish!!!, by Cruikshank
  • Illustration; The Escape
  • An episode in 'Jack Sheppard' by W.H. Ainsworth: Owen Wood, on the river Thames in a stormy night, rescues the child Jack Sheppard. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Interior of a hospital for horses. Drawing by G. Cruikshank,1835.
  • A dwarf on the shoulders of a giant, in a rowdy inn. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • A hopeless drunkard lying on his bed watched by his poor wife and son. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842, after himself.
  • Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Tabitha Grunt a hypochondriac who appears to suffer from many illnesses, consulting a bemused looking doctor. Coloured reproduction of an etching after G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • Workmen prepare the scaffold for an execution at night with one workman pointing at a ghostly figure dressed in black rushing past the block. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • John Dee and Edward Kelley attend to the wounded Guy Fawkes, and give him an elixir which revives him. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Bill Sikes attempting to drown his dog in a pond near Hatfield, Herts. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1838.
  • People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • A drunken man fights with his family, all ruined through his drinking habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 183-.
  • Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 183-.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.