George Cruikshank or Cruickshank was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life.
16 Facts About George Cruikshank
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George Cruikshank's father, Edinburgh-born Isaac Cruikshank, was one of the leading caricaturists of the late 1790s and Cruikshank started his career as his father's apprentice and assistant.
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George Cruikshank illustrated the first, 1823 English translation of Grimms' Fairy Tales, published in two volumes as German Popular Stories.
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George Cruikshank had fathered 11 illegitimate children with a mistress named Adelaide Attree, his former servant, who lived close to where he lived with his wife.
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George Cruikshank achieved early success collaborating with William Hone in his political satire The Political House That Jack Built.
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George Cruikshank gained notoriety with his political prints that attacked the royal family and leading politicians.
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George Cruikshank's work included a personification of England named John Bull who was developed from about 1790 in conjunction with other British satirical artists such as James Gillray, and Thomas Rowlandson.
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George Cruikshank replaced one of his major influences, James Gillray, as England's most popular satirist.
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For Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank illustrated Sketches by Boz, The Mudfog Papers and Oliver Twist.
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George Cruikshank illustrated Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, which Dickens edited under his regular, "Boz".
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On 30 December 1871 George Cruikshank published a letter in The Times which claimed credit for much of the plot of Oliver Twist.
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George Cruikshank was not the first Dickens illustrator to make such a claim.
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George Cruikshank wore a large white cotton nightcap tied under the chin and a white voluminous nightdress that came high up in the neck.
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However, George Cruikshank received little encouragement from the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, and was rebuked for crossing into Kent to recruit.
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The unit ran into financial difficulties and when George Cruikshank was forced to retire due to age, he was replaced as commanding officer by Lt-Col Cuthbert Vickers, a wealthy shipowner.
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However, the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette of 3 September 1868 reported that George Cruikshank had resigned as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Volunteers "in consequence, it is said, of the reinstatement in the service of certain officers of his corps who some time since had a difference with their Lieutenant-Colonel and were cashiered".