The Nose ("Die lange Nase")
George Cruikshank
17.6 cm high by 12.5 cm wide (6 ⅞ by 4 ⅜ inches)
German Popular Stories, trans. Edgar Taylor (1826), Vol. II.
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Vogler's Commentary
The Nose. This etching is remarkable for its depiction of a human figure with a seemingly endless nose. Cruikshank, who himself had a rather pronounced Roman nose, had a lifelong fascination with with noses . . . , a fact that had already attracted Freudian literary critics. [No. 60, p. 138]
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Other illustrations from this work (1823, 1826)
- Reverse of title-page and Half-title
- The Elves and The Shoemaker
- The King of the Golden Mountain
- Rumpel-Stilts-Kin
- Title-page illustration, Vol. I
- Title-page illustration, Vol. II
- The Young Giant and The Tailor
- The Goose Girl
- Pee Wit
- Cherry, or The Frog Bride
- The Elfin Grove
Bibliography
German Popular Stories. Ed. Edgar Taylor with an Introduction by John Ruskin. London: John Camden Hotten, nd.
Pritchett, V. S. "A Fine Rough English Diamond: [Review of] Graphic Works of George Cruikshank selected with an introduction and notes by Richard A. Vogler. Dover Publications, 168 pp. 279 illustrations, $7.95 (paper)." The New York Review of Books, 12 June 1980, pp. 6-8.
Taylor, Edgar (translator). German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder Und Haus Marchen, Collected by M. M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition. Vol. One. London: Charles Baldwyn, 1823.
Taylor, Edgar (translator). German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder Und Haus Marchen, Collected by M. M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition. Vol. Two. London: James Robins, 1826.
Vogler, Richard A. Graphic Works of George Cruikshank. New York: Dover, 1979.
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