Further Reading

The exhibition curators drew upon a range of scholarly materials to better contextualize George Cruikshank’s life and times. The sources, below, represent a selection of these studies.

Nineteenth-Century Biographies 

Blanchard, Jerrold. The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. Google Books. 

Hamilton, Walter. A Memoir of George Cruikshank, Artist and Humorist. London: Elliot Stock, 1878. Google Books

Kitton, Frederic G. “George Cruikshank.” Dickens and His Illustrators. London: Chapman & Hall, 1899.

Stephens, Frederic George. A Memoir of George Cruikshank. London: Scribner and Wellford, 1891. Google Books 

Thackeray, William Makepeace. “An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank.” Originally published in The Westminster Review, 1840. HathiTrust

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Twentieth-Century Biographies 

Jones, Michael Wynn. George Cruikshank: His Life and London. New York:
Macmillan, 1978.

McLean, Ruari. George Cruikshank: His Life and Work as a Book Illustrator. English Masters of Black-and-White. London: Art and Technics, 1948. 

Patten, Robert L., ed. George Cruikshank: A Revaluation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.

—. George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art. 2 vols. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992-1996. 

On Graphic Satire & Book Illustration 

Alexander, Lynn. “Victorian Illustrators and Illustration,” A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Eds. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 39-46

Anderson, Patricia. The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860. Clarendon Press, 1991. 

Buchanan-Brown, John. Early Victorian Illustrated Books : Britain, France and Germany, 1820-1860. British Library, 2005.

Christ, Carol T., and John O. Jordan. Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. Univ of California Press, 2022.

Golden, Catherine. Book Illustrated : Text, Image, and Culture, 1770-1930. 1st ed., Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 

—. Serials to Graphic Novels : The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book. University Press of Florida, 2017. 

Haywood, Ian. Romanticism and Caricature. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 

—. The Rise of Victorian Caricature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 

Iselin, Josephine Lea. “The Great George”: Cruikshank and London’s Graphic Humorists (1800-1850). University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Maidment, Brian. Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order, 1820-50. Manchester University Press, 2013. 

Teukolsky, Rachel. Picture World : Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media. First edition., Oxford University Press, 2020.

Thomas, Julia. Pictorial Victorians : The Inscription of Values in Word and Image. Ohio University Press, 2004. 

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Bibliographies of Cruikshank’s Work

Cohn, Albert M. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Work executed during the Years 1806-1877. With Collations, Notes, Approximate Values, Facsimiles, and Illustrations.London: Office of “The Bookman’s Journal,” 1924.

Douglas, R.J.H. The Works of George Cruikshank classified and arranged with reference to Reid’s Catalogue and their appropriate values. London: Dryden Press, 1903.

Reid, George William. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of George Cruikshank. London, 1871.