Cruikshank's Illustrations from The Brothers Grimm, German Popular Stories (1823 & 1826)
One can account for this [theatrical presentation of Falstaff] only by Cruikshank's love of historical subjects and their clothing and fantasies of the unreal world of the Victorian theater. And that brings one back to an his essential in his art — his constant, even theatrical eye for staging his scenes, whether they are large or minute, tragic, pathetic, or comic, and for the hundreds of ways the dressed-up body can behave when taken unawares. [Prickett, 8]
- A Gallery of George Cruikshank's Illustrations for German Popular Stories (1823, 1826)
- Illustration for Volume One's Half-title-page from German Popular Stories (1823)
- The Elves and the Shoe-maker from German Popular Stories (1823)
- The King of the Golden Mountain from German Popular Stories (1823)
- Rumpel-Stilts-Kin (1823)
- Title-page Vignette from German Popular Stories (1823)
- Illustration for Volume Two's Half-title-page from German Popular Stories (1826)
- The Young Giant and The Tailor from German Popular Stories (Volume Two, 1826)
- The Goose Girl
- Pee Wit
- Cherry, or The Frog Bride
- The Elfin Grove
- The Nose
Bibliography
Cohen, Jane Rabb. Part One, "Dickens and His Early Illustrators: 1. George Cruikshank. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1980. Pp. 15-38.
Cruikshank, George. George Cruikshank's Fairy Library: "Hop-O'-My-Thumb," "Jack and the Bean-Stalk," "Cinderella," "Puss in Boots." London: George Bell, 1865.
German Popular Stories. Ed. Edgar Taylor with an Introduction by John Ruskin. London: John Camden Hotten, nd.
Grego, Joseph (intro) and George Cruikshank. Cruikshank's Water Colours. [27 Oliver Twist illustrations, including the wrapper and the 13-vignette title-page produced for F. W. Cosens; 20 plates for William Harrison Ainsworth's The Miser's Daughter: A Tale of the Year 1774; 20 plates plus the proofcover the work for W. H. Maxwell's History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803]. London: A. & C. Black, 1903. OT = pp. 1-106].
Patten, Robert L., ed. George Cruikshank: A Revaluation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. [Originally published 1974 as an issue of Princeton University Library Chronicle.]
Patten, Robert L. George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art. 2 vols. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992-1996.
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. Dover Pictorial Archive Series. New York: Dover, 1979.
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