Author: WYNN JONES, MICHAEL
Title: George Cruikshank : his life and London / Michael Wynn Jones
Description: London : Macmillan 1978. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. price-clipped. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xv.123.[11]p.[64]p of plates : ill. ports ; 26cm. Notes: Includes Appendix. notes. bibliography and index. 101 Illustrations. Summary: This book re-examines the artist George Cruikshank's career as one of the inimitable. but subsequently neglected. geniuses of the nineteenth century and reproduces a representative of his work. Extrovert and eccentric. George's behaviour was was a continual source of amusement. inspiration or embarrassment to his friends. His work chronicles nearly three-quarters of a century of London life - the duchesses and dandies. coal-heavers and pick-pockets. the outrageous fashions and appalling squalor. local corruption. traffic congestion and creeping suburbia. Subject: Cruikshank. George (1792-1878) Cartoonists - England - Biography. Studies - graphic artist - Social life and customs - Caricatures and cartoons - English caricatures - Cartoonists - illustration - humour (literary). Other names: Cruikshank. George 1792-1878. Genre: Biography. Illustrated. ISBN: 0333220064. Weight in Kg appr.:

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