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George Cruikshank's "The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas" is a very scarce original etching. Some sources ascribe it to George Cruikshank's father, Isaac Cruikshank (1756-1811). From the age of twelve, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) worked in collaboration with his father. His first independent etching, a song sheet illustration, was published at age fourteen in 1806. The authoritative collection of British satirical art is, of course, housed in the British Museum. Within the collection the British Museum lists three impressions of "The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas" (two uncoloured and one coloured). Based upon the text of M. Dorothy George's "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum", this etching is definitely assigned by the museum to George Cruikshank, thus making it one of his earliest, original etchings. Isaac Cruikshank may have been involved in some manner in its creation but the fatal affliction of his intemperance prohibited much productivity in his last years. Unlike George Cruikshank's later satirical etchings, "The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas" was not reissued in later editions. Created by the artist at the age of fifteen, it is thus both a scarce and valuable example of Cruikshank's early art |
| Title: | The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas |
| Artist: | Cruikshank, George (London, 1792 - 1878) |
| Date: | December 10, 1807 (First and Only Edition) |
| Medium: | Original Hand-Coloured Etching |
| Publisher: | S. W. Fores, Piccadilly, London |
| Note: | George Cruikshank: The name of George Cruikshank deserves to stand beside those of William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray as representing the greatest satirical artists from the Golden Age of this art form. As a child he learned etching techniques from his father, Isaac Cruikshank (1762-1811), a fine satirical artist in his own right. George Cruikshank created his first etching at the age of twelve. During the second and third decades of the nineteenth century he etched works of art which equaled the etchings of Gillray and Rowlandson in their technical abilities, but which perhaps surpassed either of these masters in their pure and wonderful humour. More than any other artist of satire, George Cruikshank was at his best when the target was culture, fashion and society. George Cruikshank also worked in collaboration with his brother, Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856), another fine caricaturist and satirical artist. |
| As the conservative Victorian era began (1837) most forms of satirical art grew to be unfashionable. George Cruikshank thus turned his talents to the illustrated book. Some of the greatest volumes from these later times, including Dickens's "Oliver Twist", bear testimony to the lifelong creativity of his art. | |
| The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas: In 1807, Pall Mall and Golden Lane were lit by carbonic gas on three flame mountings called the cockspur lamp. The acrobat balanced on the rope between the lamps is Frederick Albert Winsor, the founder of the National Light and Heat Company. In one hand he holds up a money bag and in the other a paper upon which is written, "This is the Speculation to make money 10.000 pr Cent profit, all in Air light Air 'tis there 'tis here & 'tis gone for ever'". His cap contains three peaks with gas flaming from each. Around him both humans and animals are expiring from Winsor’s gas fumes. To the upper left a stricken old man exclaims, "Murder, Murder oh my breath". Below him a mother screams, "Oh dear I cant breathe". On the street a man with his wife and daughter states, "Aha that will be their last Gas -p - I wish I had my money in my pocket". A man grasping the lamp post gasps, "Oh my lungs, I shall Cough to Death". Finally in a window to the upper right a woman questions Winsor, "What the Devil are you funking (to 'funk' was to puff smoke at) us all with your stinking smoake (?)". | |
| The British Museum lists three impressions of "The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas". Based upon the text of M. Dorothy George's "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum", this etching is definitely assigned by the museum to George Cruikshank, thus making it one of his earliest, original etchings. Isaac Cruikshank may have been involved in some manner in its creation but the fatal affliction of his intemperance prohibited much productivity in his last years. | |
| Raisonne: | M. Dorothy George, "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, British Museum", London, 1947, Vol. VIII. |
| http://www.britishmuseum.org. Bibliographic Reference, 10796 -10798. | |
| Size: | 13 1/4 X 9 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
| Matted with 100% Archival Materials | |
| Buy Now | Price: $595.00 US |
| Condition: | Printed on hand-made, laid paper and with margins extending about one half inch from the image on all sides. Mounted upon a larger sheet of wove paper by a former owner. Publisher's address and date of publication to the lower left within the image. Containing fine, unfaded colouration from the date of publication. In good condition throughout. "The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas" represents a prime, original example of the very early art of George Cruikshank. |
| Subject: | George Cruikshank, original etching, "The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas" , satirical art, a scarce and valuable example of Cruikshank's early art, Frederick Albert Winsor, cockspur lamp, expiring from gas fumes. |
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Original etching by The British Satirical artist, George Cruikshank.
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| The Good Effects of Carbonic Gas |
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| Isaac Robert Cruikshank (London, 1789 - 1856) | |||||
| # | Image | Title & Artist | Medium | Date | - |
| 01.- | Dandy Fainting - or - an Ekquisite in Fits by Isaac Robert Cruikshank | Original Etching | 1822 (Second and Final Edition, 1835) | Sold | |
| 02.- |  |
Household Troops, or a Sketch of a Few, of the Principal Trustworthy and Confidential Domestics of Worthy and Confiding Families by Isaac Robert Cruikshank | Original Etching | 1827 (Second and Final Edition, 1835) | |
| 03.- |  |
Monstrosities of 1827 by Isaac Robert Cruikshank | Original Etching | 1827 (Second and Final Edition, 1835) | Sold |
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