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Happy birthday Shakespeare! See our collection of art inspired by his plays, including works by William Blake, Henry Fuseli + George Cruikshank: https://t.co/1vPbmvdhHs

Pictured here: Scene from The Tempest (Caliban), Franz Marc, 1914.

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2022-04-23

Quick sketch of Quasi, the main character in Sally Cruikshank's 1975 magnum opus Quasi at the Quackadero. This was eleven and a half minutes well spent.

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2022-04-06

The last few weeks I've been editing 's brilliant book about Georgian satirists, which describes this 1814 Cruikshank print... in which the king of Sweden says '...the Hinges want a little Russia Oil'.

Truly there are no new stories.

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2022-04-05

sally cruikshank, i love her cartoon animal people and i love how fun everything in her art and animation is, it makes me just want to draw whatever comes to mind and not be afraid

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2022-03-02

been thinking about unique artists and animators so sally cruikshank's work was on the mind. drew quasi

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2022-02-18

1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died 1 Feb 1878. One of his medical works is "Headache" https://t.co/psjYlMifc4

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2022-02-02

ʜᴇɴʀɪᴇᴛᴛᴀ ʀᴀᴇ (1859-1928)
Her own interest in art was encouraged by an artist uncle who had been a pupil of the caricaturist George Cruikshank.
After 5 failed attempts, she got a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Arts, her teachers being Tadema, Dicksee &  William Frith

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2022-01-25

Vlad Solomon on what made 1830s Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.... https://t.co/9ArPJ2cpDz

(Image: coloured etching by Robert Cruikshank depicting a distressed cholera patient experimenting with remedies, ca. 1832)

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2021-11-15

1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died 1 Feb 1878. One of his medical works is "Headache" https://t.co/psjYlMzQ3C

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2021-09-27

Title - The Central Board of Health: Cholera Consultation.
Satire of the corruption and uselessness of public health officials, by George Cruikshank (1792-1878)

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2021-09-27

A view of life below deck in a warship, by George Cruikshank

The verse at the bottom reads
“A cavern lies, unknown to cheering day
Where one small taper lends a feeble ray
Where wild disorder holds her wanton reign
And careless mortals frolic in her train.”

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2021-09-07

While early medieval accounts portrayed the Wild Hunt as demonic, later romances imagined it as a host of fairies. English leaders of the Hunt included King Arthur, Herne the Hunter, and King Herla https://t.co/hoMcZLnQmW
🎨Peter Nicolai Arbo & George Cruikshank

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2021-08-12

Children's book in the park: The comic alphabet, by P Cruikshank, 1847......... https://t.co/UpncjFfcrO

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2021-08-11

'The fairies are dancing — how nimbly they bound!
They flit o'er the grass tops, they touch not the ground;
Their kirtles of green are with diamonds bedight,
All glittering and sparkling beneath the moonlight.'
-Mrs. G. G. Richardson

🎨 George Cruikshank

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2021-07-09

COOL PIG (right)
the hero! he lives on an island and loves soda pop. destined to retrieve the MAGIC PEARLS OF THE PECCARIES
CRUIKSHANKS THE MAGNIFICENT (left)
a magician with plans of conquest!! though he has never gotten over his first hurdle: building a lair. check out the hat

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2021-06-21

Old Blucher beating the Corsican big drum.

Bottom humour on full display in this 1814 caricature by George Cruikshank. A similar one of Wellington and Blucher flogging Napoleon's bare buttocks was produced in 1815.

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2021-05-30