Art for art's sake
Beer Street and Gin Lane
Benjamin Haydon
Book illustration
Caricature
Cartoon
Category=AGA
Category=AGB
Category=AKLB
Category=AKX
Charles Augustus Howell
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Dickens
Conceit
Dead Souls
Demonology
Edward Ardizzone
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Essay
Fagin
Francois Rabelais
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
George Cruikshank
George du Maurier
Giambattista Basile
Graham Greene
Hack writer
Henry Mayhew
High Spirits (musical)
Hudibras
Illustration
Illustrator
Jack Sheppard
James Gillray
John Austen (illustrator)
John Tenniel
Joseph Andrews
Little Dorrit
Mary Evans
Maurice Sendak
Micawber (TV series)
Monomania
Mr.
Necromancy
Negative capability
Newgate novel
Nicholas Nickleby
Our Mutual Friend
Parody
Phrenology
Predicament
Punch (magazine)
Puritans
Ridicule
Rights of Man
Romanticism
Ronald Searle
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Sancho Panza
Satire
Six Acts
Sketches by Boz
Superiority (short story)
Sweeney Todd
The Dunciad
The Ingoldsby Legends
The Rose and the Ring
Thomas Rowlandson
Thumbling
Vasily Rozanov
Victorian literature
Walter Crane
William Cobbett
William Harrison Ainsworth
William Hone
Product details
- ISBN 9780691002934
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Sep 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
One of the most important British graphic artists of the nineteenth century, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) illustrated over 860 books, including several by Charles Dickens, and produced a vast number of etchings, paintings, and caricatures. The ten essays collected here first appeared in a special limited edition. In a new preface written for this paperback edition, Robert Patten shows how the insights of these seminal essays have been amplified by recent exhibitions and scholarship. The introduction by John Fowles has been retained and an index has been added. In addition to the many Cruikshank illustrations reproduced in the volume, there are original drawings by contemporary artists David Levine and Ronald Searle.
Robert L. Patten, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Rice University, is the author of Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford) and a two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers).
