Chesson surveys the long career of George Cruikshank, from political caricatures of the Regency to his illustrations for Dickens and the temperance pictures of his later years. He picks out the images that stay in the memory, such as the chambermaid mistaking a leg for a warming-pan, and weighs humour, grotesquerie and moral purpose in his work.
A perceptive short study for lovers of Dickens and English comic art. Download the free EPUB.