Cruikshank, George

has biography | a une biographie: British caricaturist and book illustrator active in the nineteenth century.

Cruikshank's life overlapped with contemporary political debates over the institution of slavery in the early nineteenth-century British Empire. Many of his works, such as the 'The New Union Club' (1819) and 'An Emancipated N****' (1833), were explicitly pro-slavery and racist in their depiction of Black people.

In 1822, Cruikshank produced a number of caricatures satirising Richard Westmacott's colossal bronze statue of Achilles, intended as a tribute to the Duke of Wellington, which reflected many of the gendered anxieties around the nude male body in the Regency era. There are also traces of racialised depictions in these caricatures. 'Backside & Front View of the Ladies Fancy-man, Paddy Carey', for instance, depicts a woman racialised as black amidst a group of white onlookers on the right hand side.
was born | est né: 27 September 1792
died in | est mort par: 1 February 1878
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: artist; acting upon a monument
has association with | a une association avec: Wellington Monument, London

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; George Cruikshank, 'The New Union Club' (1819); George Cruikshank, 'Backside & Front View of the Ladies Fancy-man, Paddy Carey' (1822); George Cruikshank, 'An Emancipated N****' (1833); Temi Odumosu, Black Jokes, White Humour: Africans in English Caricature, 1769–1819 (London: Harvey Miller, 2017)