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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“There must be no smiling with Cruikshank. A man who does not laugh outright is a dullard, and has no heart" (Thackeray)

Caricaturist & book illustrator George Cruikshank 1792 in London.

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The Headache (c. 1830) by George Cruikshank (1792-1878), colour etching. National Library of Medicine, Maryland.

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I was made to feel that comics were a shameful art going through school. Low art, crass, disposable. Obviously my art teachers didn’t appreciate how important Hogarth & Cruikshank were or they would have taught me so... 🤷🏻‍♀️🤔

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The Headache, colour etching by George Cruikshank, c. 1830. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

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St Swithin, Patron Saint of Umbrella Makers - 1829. From Scraps & Sketches by George Cruikshank

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Artist George Cruikshank visits a self-medicating sufferer, at home with her range of animals, in Mixing a Recipe for Corns, 1819.

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Dr. Samuel Phillips Eady, a quack specialist in sexual health, certainly seems to get on well with his glamorous patients! "The Commercial Dandy and his sleeping partners", by George Cruikshank, 1821. via the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection.

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For the lady who has everything, how about a personal puppet dandy? Cruikshank’s The English Ladies Dandy Toy, via the British Museum. gloriousgeorgians

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Sally Cruikshank's animations
from Twilight Zone: The Movie's
"It's a Good Life" segment | 1983

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Here they are! My renditions of Sally Cruikshank’s Characters! It was a ton of fun to reinterpret these guys
If you haven’t seen ⁦⁩ work I’d recommend it 💯

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8/8 Bedlam. Alcohol has ruined the father. The children's flashy clothes show that they have turned to a life of crime. Cruikshank's sequel The Drunkard's Children follows their road to ruin.

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Mucho en el británico reciente: Whistler , Cruikshank , Hokusai y un anónimo s.XIX

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Cruikshank made a series of annual "Monstrosities" prints, each set in Hyde Park and satirising that year's metropolitan fashions. This is the 1816 print:

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A fun part about early 19th Century history is the abundance of Cruikshank cartoons satirizing contemporary events. Like this about Louis XVIII’s 1823 invasion of Spain, “Old Bumblehead the 18th trying on the Napoleon boots.” From Episode 18: https://t.co/N5W51BxQug

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Eager actresses accompany scandal-prone Lord Byron as he sails from England, waving ‘bye to shadowy wife Annabella & one-month child on shore (Cruikshank, 1816). Who’d guess that this child (Ada Lovelace) would later be a pioneer in computer programming?
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Animation art from Sally Cruikshank’s FACE LIKE A FROG (1987).

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Illustration process - George Cruikshank's original sketch, finished drawing, and printed engraving of Bill Sykes, from Dicken’s "Oliver Twist”, 1837-38 (New York Public Library)

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sally cruikshank is a dream human and I love her characters

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George Cruikshank, in his illustration for Dickens’ story “Public Dinners” in “Sketches by Boz”, sneaks in both himself and Dickens.

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