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Illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank constitute the current exhibit in the Widener Memorial Room. A few water color drawings are shown, but the majority of the display consists of engravings made by these artists, sometimes original and sometimes copied from the paintings of other...
...Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" edited by W. H. Ireland and published in 1823 is illustrated with some of the more conventional work of George Cruikshank, the plates being engraved by him from drawings by other men. The same thing is true of "An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo" written by William Mudford Esq. and printed in 1816. This artist is more appealing, however, in what is the most valuable and probably the most interesting work in the display, namely "The Humorist, a Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc., etc." The work is made...
...most interesting works is a roll of pictures 13 feet long showing various scenes in the gathering of people to a prize fight. The roll is probably unique and is one of Cruikshank's early works. On display in the same case is a book complete with illustrations of the fight between Crib and Molineux and titled "The Battle" This was done about...
...second case contains Cruikshank's "Omnibus" a series of illustrations and caricatures of various scenes in contemporary travelling conditions. This is in the form of a series of pamphlets making up the whole book and published at separate times. There are several original drawings used in the work...
...pictures for the Park's book of games to be played on the twelfth night after Christmas a day which is always celebrated in England as concluding the Christmas season. Washington Irving's "History of New York" with illustrations of typical scenes in the Manhattan of the parties and Cruikshank's drawings for the "Table Book" a monthly magazine complete the exhibition...