THE LIFE OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK,
VOL. I. (of II)
The Life Of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs
By Blanchard Jerrold
With Numerous Illustrations
1882
“If ever you happen to meet with two volumes of Grimm’s ‘German Stories,* which were illustrated by Cruikshank long ago, pounce upon them instantly; the etchings in them are the finest things, next to Rembrandt’s, that, as far as I know, have been done since etching was invented.”—Ruskin.
“All British people, even publicans and distillers, we should hope, have a kindly feeling for George Cruikshank.”—W. M. Rossetti.
“Am I stilted or turgid when I paraphrase that which Johnson said of Homer and Milton, in re the Iliad and the Paradise Lost, and say of Hogarth and Cruikshank that George is not the greatest pictorial humourist our country has seen, only because he is not the first?”—Sala’s “Life of William Hogarth.”
CONTENTS
[ THE LIFE OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. EPOCH I. 1794—1847. ]
[ CHAPTER II. FROM CRANACH TO CRUIKSHANK. ]
[ CHAPTER III. CRUIKSHANK’S EARLY DAYS. ]
[ CHAPTER IV. CRUIKSHANK AS A POLITICAL CARICATURIST. ]
[ CHAPTER V. “LIFE IN LONDON,” “LIFE IN PARIS,” “POINTS OF HUMOUR,” ETC. ]
[ CHAPTER VI. HAND-TO-MOUTH WORK. ]
[ CHAPTER VII. THREE COURSES AND A DESSERT ]
[ CHAPTER VIII. SKETCHES BY BOZ, OLIVER TWIST, AND THE LIFE OF GRIMALDI. ]
[ CHAPTER IX. ILLUSTRATIONS TO HARRISON AINSWORTH’S ROMANCES. ]