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Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1842Reference: 35750i- Pictures
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A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1839]Reference: 29758i- Pictures
A failure of mechanisation: a modern handle-operated church organ cannot be turned off, so is removed from the church in the course of the service. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 3304949i- Pictures
Phrenological propensities: philoprogenitiveness, amativeness, self-love, individuality, number; illustrated by a huge and happy family, an apothecary making advances on his maidservant, a dandy admiring his reflection, Seurat the human skeleton, Toby the learned pig. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 August 1826Reference: 11844iPart of: Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of doctors Gall and Spurzheim- Pictures
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A man is falling down the stairs of the pulpit watched by the congregation in the church, as he falls he pulls the robe of the priest. Etching after George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1840Reference: 36249i- Pictures
Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 11902i- Pictures
Examples of fraudulent imitations (?). Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1843Reference: 588782i- Pictures
Phrenological propensities: adhesiveness, inhabitiveness, constructiveness, combativeness, destructiveness; illustrated by a couple stuck in a bog, a snail in its shell, a spider in its web, a huge brawl, a bull in a china shop. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: August 1st 1826Reference: 11840iPart of: Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of doctors Gall and Spurzheim- Pictures
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A dancing lesson: a boy in a sailor suit dances the hornpipe as the teacher plays the violin; the girl is standing with a stretcher across her back. Etching by George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: Augt. 1st 1835Reference: 34291i- Books
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Catholic miracles; illustrated with seven designs including a characteristic portrait of Prince Hohenlohe / by George Cruikshank ; to which is added, a reply to Cobbett's defence of Catholicism, and his libel on the Reformation.
Date: 1825- Pictures
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An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1839]Reference: 29763i- Pictures
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Phrenological propensities: language, ideality, wit, imitation and approbation, comparison; illustrated by foul-mouthed fishwives, a man imagining ghosts, a woman tricked in a churchyard, Mathews mimicking a phrenologist's lecture, a tall thin man passing a short fat woman. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 August 1826Reference: 11841iPart of: Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of doctors Gall and Spurzheim- Pictures
Seven vignettes illustrating phrenological propensities: tune, covetiveness, secretiveness, size, firmness, time, weight; illustrated by an organ-grinder, a pick-pocket, an adulterer, the huge Daniel Lambert, a pavior with his rammer, a winged clock, a crown on a cushion. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 August 1826Reference: 11843iPart of: Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of doctors Gall and Spurzheim- Pictures
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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.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: June 1871Reference: 18167i- Pictures
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Crowds of people are thronging the streets of Westminster, with traders hawking their wares and others arguing, and so much noise and bustle the horse and carriage is nearly overturned. Etching by George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 35903i- Pictures
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Bartholomew fair in London represented as a place where crowds of people watch entertainments inspired by the devil, and indulge in drunkenness and fighting; demons incite them to crime. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1832.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1832Reference: 32534i- Pictures
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A young English woman returning from Paris with her French governesss is not recognized by her uncle, aunt and sister owing to her French speech and clothes. Etching by George Cruikshank after EHL.
L., E.H., active 1816-1817.Date: Augt. 1st 1835Reference: 28527i- Pictures
A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.Date: [1832?]Reference: 2000i- Pictures
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Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: Feb.y 1831Reference: 578913iPart of: Scraps and sketches depicting scenes of British life.- Pictures
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Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1844]Reference: 32500i- Ephemera
Beaufoy's instant cure for the tooth-ache : the genuine packages contain a fac-simile of one or the other of these vignettes : sold by most respectable druggists... / Beaufoy & Co. ; [illustrated by George Cruikshank].
Beaufoy & Co.Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]- Pictures
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Geology: the grotto at Antiparos (exterior). Etching by G. Cruikshank after John Auldjo.
Auldjo, John, 1805-1886.Date: April 1835Reference: 46871i- Pictures
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Geology: the grotto at Antiparos (interior). Etching by G. Cruikshank after John Auldjo.
Auldjo, John, 1805-1886.Date: April 1835Reference: 46872i- Pictures
A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1847Reference: 744238iPart of: The bottle- Pictures
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A phrenologist in his consulting room, examining the head of a young man and dictating the results to his assistant while a woman looks on. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1826, after H.T.D.B.
B., H. T. D.Date: Feb.y 24th. 1826Reference: 460156i