Month: October 2022
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Performative Science: George Cruikshank & Phrenology
How did George Cruikshank view doctors who were proponents of pseudoscience?
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Teetotalism: George Cruikshank’s Anti-Alcohol Advertisements
How did George Cruikshank use illustrations to advocate for teetotalism and why did he think it was necessary?
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The Funny and the Serious: George Cruikshank as a Caricaturist and a Naturalist
George Cruikshank drew more than caricatures and cartoons.
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Obesity and Class in George Cruikshank’s Illustrations
Nineteenth-Century caricaturists often drew bodies in different sizes. How did Cruikshank’s sketches link body size with class and gender?
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Fox, Geese, and Snake Oil Salesmen: George Cruikshank’s Critique of Pseudo-Doctors
Through the use of personified animals, George Cruikshank critiques the practices of Snake Oil Salesmen and other Pseudo-Doctors in 19th-century Britain.
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Grotesque Noses in George Cruikshank’s Caricatures
What does the nose know? Cruikshank’s visual taxonomy of noses explores the grotesque and the whimsical.
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Viewing George Cruikshank’s Illustrations as Theatrical Productions
by Harley Khaang What were some of the most popular forms of entertainment for those living in the nineteenth century? Books and theatre had been available to the public long…
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George Cruikshank’s Vision of a Gin-Crazed Britain
George Cruikshank depicts gin’s effect on 19th-century British families in his 1833 sketch titled “Pillars of a Ginshop.”
Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery