Monstrosities of 1825-26 / George Cruikshank
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- Accession Number
- 1989/1.71
- Title
- Monstrosities of 1825-26
- Artist
- George Cruikshank
- Artist Nationality
- British
- Artist Life Dates
- 1782-1878
- Medium and Support
- etching with hand-coloring on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1825
- Object Creation Place
- Europe
- British
- Creation Place 1
- Europe
- Creation Place 2
- British
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Inscription
- Signed, l.l.: Geo. Cruikshank fect Inscribed C.: Monstrosities of 1825. - 6 - Inscribed, l.r.: London Pubd Feby. 10th 1826, by G. Humphrey 24 St James's Strt St James's Inscribed verso, in pencil, l.l.: APG 9216 C.R. in pencil: 86.8.
- Dimensions
- 24.1 cm x 38.6 cm (9 1/2 in. x 15 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- intaglio print
- Secondary Object Type
- etching
- Physical Description
- Fashionable figures promenading on a windy day are arrayed in a shallow, congested space across the image field. The blustery wind accents the wind-whipped broad straw hats, ribbons, and skirts of the women, rendering some of them faceless. Three children at the lower left appear as mushrooms while the woman in white behind them has an improbably pinched waistline.
- Subject Matter
- British printmaking during the Regency period included a healthy dose of satire and several artists, including Thomas Rowlandson and brothers George and Isaac Robert Cruikshank applied their wit to observing the social scene around them. Parodying and underscoring the excesses—“Monstrosities”—of high fashion though the device of a blustery day, Cruikshank exaggerates the broad brimmed millinery of both women and small children who are effectively rendered unidentifiable thanks to the overly generous proportions of their hats. Absurdly pinched waists of the fashionable young women are contrasted with the large woman at left who is shown with ribbons flying in the wind.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1337 x 853
- File Size
- 151 KB
- Record
- 1989/1.71
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"Monstrosities of 1825-26; George Cruikshank." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1989-sl-1.71/1989_1.71.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 02, 2024.