English caricaturist, illustrator, and portrait miniaturist

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The cits ordinary at the Gate House Highgate, or every hog to his own apple : Eating out. No. 3.

Tom & Jerry larking at a masquerade supper, at the opera house : good living : a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.

Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Coloured etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1818.

Liston and the Lambkins or the citizens dinner party : good living : a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.

Charles Waterton in Guyana riding on the back of a cayman. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1827, after E. Jones.

An episode in the play "The dancing barber" by Charles Selby: Narcissus Fitzfrizzle attending to the hair of Alfred Fitzfrolic in the rooms of the latter. Etching by R. Cruikshank.

This ham, depend on it, thoul't not take hence, while I am capable of its defence : good living : a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.

Benjamin Harrison, the autocratic treasurer of Guy's hospital, receiving tributes from Sir Astley Cooper and his associates. Coloured lithograph attributed to R. Cruikshank, ca. 1830.

Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1835.

Merrie England in the olden time / by George Daniel.

Pleasure seekers visiting the unfinished Thames Tunnel are drenched by the ingress of water. Aquatint by R. Cruikshank, 1830.

A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].

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Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Images from the collections

Images by Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Works from the collections

Charles Waterton in Guyana riding on the back of a cayman. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1827, after E. Jones.

Merrie England in the olden time / by George Daniel.

Pleasure seekers visiting the unfinished Thames Tunnel are drenched by the ingress of water. Aquatint by R. Cruikshank, 1830.

This ham, depend on it, thoul't not take hence, while I am capable of its defence : good living : a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.

A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].

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Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Images from the collections

Images by Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Works from the collections

Charles Waterton in Guyana riding on the back of a cayman. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1827, after E. Jones.

Merrie England in the olden time / by George Daniel.

Pleasure seekers visiting the unfinished Thames Tunnel are drenched by the ingress of water. Aquatint by R. Cruikshank, 1830.

This ham, depend on it, thoul't not take hence, while I am capable of its defence : good living : a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.

A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].

Frequent collaborators

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