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31. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) “Charing Cross?” |
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“Charing Cross?”
Original drawing in pencil, pen and ink and touches of watercolor on thin card, extravagantly signed and dated June 3rd, 1832 in ink, 320 x 250 mm. Cruikshank, an immensely prolific artist, inherited the mantel of Hogarth and Gillray as a biting satirist of British politics and public events as well as the pictorial enemy of his country’s foes, whoever they might be. He was also, a bit later on, more convivial as an illustrator of books by Dickens, Pierce Egan and others and, finally, a fierce crusader for temperance and anti-smoking. This delightful sketch of a London cab driver falls into the convivial period, and it is less “sketchy” than it at first seems, subtly shaded and highlighted and with a carefully lettered “Greenwich” in a banner on the driver’s seat.
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$650.00 |  |
