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George CruikshankMr. B. Promoted to Lieutenant and first putting on his uniform.1835
1835
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From, The Progress of a Midshipman, Exemplified in the Career of Master Blockhead 1860 (plate 7)
Etching with handcoloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 8 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (210 x 290mm) full margins. Final edition, printed by Thomas McLean. Signed in the plate by Cruikshank, and bearing Frederick Marryat's anchor moniker. Two large bows of light-colored dampstain, extending approximately 1/4 inch into the image area at the left plate mark (unobtrusive). Minor bow of light-colored dampstaining at the center sheet edge with an associated vertical edge tear, extending upwards approximately 1/4 inch, does not enter plate mark. Another vertical edge tear at lower right sheet corner, also well outside of image area. Some small areas of non archival mount remnants at top sheet edge, verso. Light handling creases and surface soil. All condition issues are consistent with age.
Perhaps introduced to each other by their mutual friend, Charles Dickens, George Cruickshank and Captain Frederick Marryat became fast friends, political confidants, and artistic collaborators, working together many times over the course of their late careers. Marryat, a novelist, caricaturist and captain in the Royal Navy, first went to sea in 1806, and served throughout the Napoleonic Wars. After Napoleon’s defeat, having had a brilliant career at sea, Marryat found his Naval exercises uninspiring, and decided to resign his commission. In November 1830 he left the Royal Navy and took up writing full time. Some of Marryat’s most well loved novels include "Frank Mildmay" (1829), "Peter Simple" (1834), "Mr. Midshipman Easy" (1836), and "Japhet in Search of a Father" (1836). Marryat was also a well known author of children’s books, having penned "The Pacha of many Tales" (1836), "The Phantom Ship" (1839), "Poor Jack" (1840), "Masterman Ready" (1841), and "The Settlers in Canada" (1844). He is also known for some unrelated remarkable achievements, including having developed the first general system of flag signaling for merchant vessels (Marryat’s Code of Signals), as well as being credited with describing a previously unrecorded gastropod genus Cyclostrema with the type species Cyclostrema cancellatum, and having drawn Napoleon’s deathbed portrait.
Originally issued in an oblong folio with 8 hand-colored lithographed plates by Cruikshank after Marryat, this image is signed in the plate, and dated June 1820.
- Creator:George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878, British)
- Creation Year:1835
- Dimensions:Height: 8.55 in (21.72 cm)Width: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Middletown, NY
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George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank was a British caricaturist and book illustrator praised as the modern Hogarth during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. Cruikshank was born in London. His father, Isaac Cruikshank, was one of the leading caricaturists of the late 1790s, and Cruikshank started his career as his father's apprentice and assistant. His older brother, Isaac Robert, also followed in the family business as a caricaturist and illustrator. Cruikshank's early work was a caricature, but in 1823, at the age of 31, he started to focus on book illustration. He illustrated the first, 1823 English translation (by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine) of Grimms' Fairy Tales, published in two volumes as German Popular Stories. On 16th October 1827, he married Mary Ann Walker (1807–49). Two years after her death, on 7th March 1851, he married Eliza Widdison. The two lived at 263 Hampstead Road, North London. Upon his death, it was discovered that 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. Adelaide was ostensibly married and had taken the married surname Archibold.
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