[Two plates from 'Illustrations of Time']
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank [1827]
Two etchings, each sheet approx. 275 x 290mm (10¾ x 11½"). Glued to opposite sides of same backing sheet.
Two sheets of images from 'Illustrations of Time' by George Cruikshank, published in 1827, including a real tennis scene. Cruikshank (1792-1878) was an English caricaturist and book illustrator. Cruikshank started out as a political satirist in the same vein as Gillray and Rowlandson, whose work was so powerful that in 1820 he received a royal bribe of £100 for a pledge not to caricature His Majesty King George III. In later life Cruikshank had a second career as a prolific book illustrator : 'Illustrations of Time' was one of several such volumes he published in the 1820s. From the 1840s onwards Cruikshank devoted much of his time towards championing temperance- his career therefore encapsulating the shift from Regency to Victorian morality.
BM Satires 15474-5
[Ref: 41289] £130.00
Two etchings, each sheet approx. 275 x 290mm (10¾ x 11½"). Glued to opposite sides of same backing sheet.
Two sheets of images from 'Illustrations of Time' by George Cruikshank, published in 1827, including a real tennis scene. Cruikshank (1792-1878) was an English caricaturist and book illustrator. Cruikshank started out as a political satirist in the same vein as Gillray and Rowlandson, whose work was so powerful that in 1820 he received a royal bribe of £100 for a pledge not to caricature His Majesty King George III. In later life Cruikshank had a second career as a prolific book illustrator : 'Illustrations of Time' was one of several such volumes he published in the 1820s. From the 1840s onwards Cruikshank devoted much of his time towards championing temperance- his career therefore encapsulating the shift from Regency to Victorian morality.
BM Satires 15474-5
[Ref: 41289] £130.00