Cruikshank, George (1792-1878; English)
29 etchings
Presented by B.Moore, 1899
National Gallery of Victoria (acc.nos.4203.1-3 to 4203.29-3)
[reproduction: Monstrosities of 1822 (NGV 4203.3-3)]
These etchings provide a good sample of Cruikshank’s caricatures of the foibles of contemporary politics and fashion, in the tradition of Gillray, Rowlandson, and his father Isaac (1746-1811).
While not listed in the NGV’s Annual Report for 1899 or the general catalogue issued in 1905, these prints are clearly identified by the gallery as donated in 1899. They range in date of composition from 1814 to 1835, most of them collected in Cruikshankiana (Thomas McLean, London, 1835). Some of these etchings also appear to have been worked on by George Cruikshank’s brother Isaac Robert, with whom he collaborated in the series Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1821).
As noted below, three of the prints donated in 1899 have yet to be identified, and may no longer be in the collection.
Individual prints (listed by accession no.):
4203.1-3: Dandies of 1817 & Monstrosities of 1818 (1818/35)
4203.2-3: Monstrosities of 1821 (1821/35)
4203.3-3: Monstrosities of 1822 (1821/35) [reproduced above]
4203.4-3: Monstrosities of 1819 & 1820 (1821/35)
4203.5-3: Monstrosities of 1824 (1824/35)
4203.6-3: London Dandies or Monstrosities of 1816 (1816/35)
4204.7-3: Monstrosities of 1835 & 6 (1826/35)
4203.8-3: Monstrosities of 1827 (1827/35)
4203.9-3: Ancient military dandies of 1450 – Modern military dandies of 1819 (1819/35)
4203.10-3: The advantages of travel, plate 1 (1824/35)
4203.11-3: The advantages of travel, plate 2 (1824/35)
4203.12-3: A visit to Cockney Farm (1819/35)
4203.13-3: Humming birds or A Dandy Trio (1819/35)
4203.14-3: Inconvenience of a crowded drawing room (1818/35)
4203.15-3: Game of chess (1814/35)
4203.16-3: A swarm of English bees (1816/35)
4203.17-3: The comforts of a cabriolet (1821/35)
4203.18-3: Le retour de Paris (1817/35)
4203.19-3: A dandy fainting (1818/35)
4203.20-3: {not identified}
4203.21-3: Anglo-Gallic salutations in London (1822/35)
4203.22-3: {not identified}
4203.23-3: The Picadilly nuisance (1818/35)
4203.24-3: {not identified}
4203.25-3: A party of pleasure (1822/35)
4203-26-3: Anglo-Parisian salutations (1822/35)
4203.27-3: Household troops (1827)
4203.28-3: Modern Tourists (1835)
4203.29-3: Travelling in France (1818/35)
Refs.
Not listed in AR 1899 or NGV 1905
The NGV catalogue provides details and reproductions of all the prints listed