Vainio, Jyrki :: Victorian and Edwardian cartoonists

George Cruikshank autograph ca. 1850s

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Title:	George Cruikshank autograph ca. 1850s
Artist:	George Cruikshank (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	622
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Added to Site:	9/5/2007
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In 1818 George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was horrified to see several women hanged for using forged pound notes. For this he drew a cartoon - into which he forged a mock pound note. The result, eventually, was the end of hanging for all minor offences. Not bad for a cartoon!
Cruikshank also illustrated Dickens, including Oliver Twist.

This item is a signed address card for a package. In an interestingly comics-related sidenote the receiver, sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, bart, MP, was the Victorian novelist who began one of his works with the now infamous phrase "It was a dark and stormy night"!

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	Jyrki Vainio
Joined:	October 2005
Last Login:	September 2025
Ebay Id:	jyrki_vainio
Website:	http://www.jyrkivainio.com/
Country:	FINLAND
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