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May – "Old May Day" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left) Wall Art
ART BY: George Cruikshank
May – "Old May Day" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left) Wall Art
ART BY: George Cruikshank
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May – "Old May Day" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left) is a public-domain artwork by George Cruikshank (1792–1878), dated 1836, printed c. 188. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 3000 × 1879 px (3.2 MB). It is filed under Prints, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 381 works by George Cruikshank, a British artist.
George Cruikshank or Cruickshank 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.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by George Cruikshank →
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May – "Old May Day" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left) is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
