Cruikshank, George (1792–1878)

Boney Stark Mad or More Ships Colonies and Commerce, 1 January 1808, an early cartoon by English illustrator George Cruikshank that shows the influence of English caricaturist James Gillray on his early work. Cruikshank was a versatile artist whose incisive and satirical depictions of the society and politics of his day are often used to represent late Georgian and Victorian England.

English painter and illustrator. He is remembered for his political cartoons and illustrations for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. From 1835 he published the Comic Almanack, a forerunner of Punch.

Following his father, he began with political and social caricatures in the Gillray and Rowlandson style for The Scourge (1811–16) and The Meteor (1813–14), but evolved a grotesque and humorous manner of his own in sketches of Victorian London life and in book illustration. Notable productions are his etchings, made from 1823 to 1826, for Grimms' fairy-tales and the spirited melodrama of those for Dickens's Oliver Twist and Harrison Ainsworth's Old St Paul's. His brother Robert (1789–1856) was also a caricaturist and a miniature painter. They collaborated in 1821 in illustrating the late-Georgian humours of Pierce Egan's Life in London.