CRUIKSHANK (George, 1792-1878, Artist & Caricaturist, Illustrator of Dickens)

Wood engraving, bearing his engraved signature, titled "Dog-days - Legislation going to the dogs", showing two dogs as 'swells' smoking cigars and pouring scorn on their hard working fellows, of whom two are pulling a hardware cart from "Houndsditch", one of the latter says angrily that "dog Billy has grown so proud that he has declined to kill any more Rats!!", according to his cousin "from Barking", in the background are two other conversations involving a lap-dog, a guard-dog and a dancing-dog, 1 side 3¼" x 5¼" in margins 4¼" x 6½", verso blank, no place, no date, circa light brown mark in blank left margin, closed tear in bottom edge reaching a short way into the image, tiny defect in one blank corner



Item Date:  1844

Stock No:  53032      £35

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