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George Cruikshank hand-colored etchings

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Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]181 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717-5267

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Call Number:
Item 0009
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
2 item
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
GRA 0099, Item 0009, George Cruikshank hand-colored etchings, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1813 october 20 and 1818 september 12 (inclusive)
Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 and Fores, S. W.
Form:
Etchings (prints)
Abstract:
This collection comprises two original hand-colored etchings by British caricaturist George Cruikshank, the companion pieces A Nice Lady or an Incomparable!!!! (1813) and An Exquisite Dandy-Prodigious!!! A Nice Gentleman (1818). Both etchings were published by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly.

English illustrator and caricaturist George Cruikshank (1792-1878) became known for his caricatures ridiculing King George IV and for his social satires.

This collection comprises two original hand-colored etchings by British caricaturist George Cruikshank, the companion pieces

A Nice Lady or an Incomparable!!!! (1813) and An Exquisite Dandy-Prodigious!!! A Nice Gentleman (1818). Both etchings were published by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly.

Both prints are signed "Cruikshank fect."

Shelved in SPEC GRA mapcases

Gift of Burton A. Abrams, April 2016.

Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, June 2016.

This item forms part of GRA 0099 Graphic Materials - Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

This item forms part of GRA 0099 Graphic Materials - Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

GRA 0100 George and Robert Cruikshank collection

GRA 0102 Etching collection

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2016 June 08
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Hand-colored George Cruikshank etchings, 1813 October 20 and 1818 September 12.
Mapcase 3 Item 0009

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