Isaac Cruikshank was the youngest child, and was interested in all sorts of hobbies including sports and music.
10 Facts About Isaac Cruikshank
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Isaac Cruikshank studied with a local artist, possibly John Kay.
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In 1783, Isaac Cruikshank left Scotland to travel to London with his master.
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Isaac Cruikshank's first known publications were etchings of Edinburgh "types", from 1784.
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Isaac Cruikshank produced illustrations for books about the theatre, did the frontispiece for Witticisms and Jests of Dr Johnson, and illustrated George Shaw's extensive General Zoology.
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Isaac Cruikshank was responsive to the marketplace but firm in his dislikes of Napoleon and Britain's home-grown political radicals, including, for example, the members of the London Corresponding Society and the Society of the Friends of the People.
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Isaac Cruikshank died of alcohol poisoning at the age of forty-six as a result of a drinking contest, of which he was declared the winner.
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Isaac Cruikshank was one of the first to illustrate Napoleon as a negative caricature in his work Buonaparte at Rome Giving Audience in State.
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In 1809, Isaac Cruikshank created French Generals Receiving an English Charge which largely attacked Prince Frederick, Duke of York for his scandalous affairs with Mary Anne Clarke during the time.
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Crumbier created a catalogue of around 1350 images that Isaac Cruikshank produced in his lifetime.