In 1847, inspired by William Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, George Cruikshank published a graphic narrative in eight plates showing one man’s descent into sin, poverty, and insanity, due to alcoholism.

They caused the sea to foam and out of that white foam rose Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. This is the story George Cruikshank chose to paint in his late sixties or early seventies. Two ...

The English artist George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was primarily a caricaturist and illustrator. He was the preeminent Victorian practitioner of graphic satire in the tradition of William Hogarth.

Jack, his mother, and his sister Ady lived in a valley far away from London rimmed with waterfalls. Jack was an unruly boy and refused to listen to anything his mother told him and was incredibly ...

fores, 1793 § cruikshank (george) worse and worse or the sports of the 19th century., hand-coloured etching from vol. 2 of ‘town talk; or, living manners’, trimmed, repaired short tear on right side, ...

The flagship of Irish restauranteur Oliver Peyton who, even when it was just a derelict basement put the Atlantic Bar and Grill on the artworld map by hosting an installation by Mat Collishaw ...

There's a compulsive quality, too, to George Cruikshank's row of demon heads, even though he takes the time to color them in red and blue.

Or a sinister gentleman in a stiff Victorian suit? In 1863 George Cruikshank, the caricaturist and illustrator of Dickens’s novels, announced a “discovery” concerning the varied appearance ...

Founded in 1891 by a group of artists headed by aesthete-painter James Abbot McNeill Whistler to answer a need for a special meeting and imbibing place for the bohemian inhabitants of what was ...