"Crinolina" - and the Consequences [recto]

1865

George Cruikshank

Artist, British, 1792 - 1878

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with watercolor and scratching-out (around the ghosts' eyes on the right) on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 24.3 x 32.2 cm (9 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
    mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.5.1.a

Associated Artworks

"Taking the Air" in Hyde Park [verso]

George Cruikshank

1865

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 November 1995, lot 87); purchased (via Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox) by NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 138, as "Crinolina" - and the Consequences.

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: -"Crinolina"- and the Consequences.; lower right in pen and black ink: Geo Cruikshank.; lower center verso in pen and brown ink: "Taking the Air" in Hyde Park / Fashions of 1865

Wikidata ID

Q64571340

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