Written for the Westminster Review in 1840, before Vanity Fair, this essay pays a debt of gratitude to the artist whose etchings delighted Thackeray’s boyhood. He tours Cruikshank’s comic plates and book illustrations, from political squibs and London street life to his illustrations for Dickens, and praises his honest English humour.
A charming meeting of two great Victorian satirists, one with pen and one with needle. Download the free EPUB.