The world 100 years ago

Wynn Jones, Michael

Macmillan

The World 100 Years Ago

Pan/Macmillan

Physical description: xv,123,[11]p,[64]p of plates : ill, ports ; 26cm. Notes: Includes Appendix, notes, bibliography and index. 101 Illustrations. Summary: This book re-examines the artist George Cruikshank's career as one of the inimitable, but subsequently neglected, geniuses of the nineteenth century and reproduces a representative of his work. Extrovert and eccentric, George's behaviour was was a continual source of amusement, inspiration or embarrassment to his friends. His work chronicles nearly three-quarters of a century of London life - the duchesses and dandies, coal-heavers and pick-pockets, the outrageous fashions and appalling squalor, local corruption, traffic congestion and creeping suburbia. Subject: Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) Cartoonists - England - Biography. Studies - graphic artist - Social life and customs - Caricatures and cartoons - English caricatures - Cartoonists - illustration - humour (literary). Other names: Cruikshank, George 1792-1878. Genre: Biography, Illustrated.

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