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George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank

British, 1792–1878

George Cruikshank (1792–1878) was an English caricaturist and book illustrator. After years of political satire, he illustrated Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Oliver Twist (1838), including the famous Fagin in the Condemned Cell. In later life he campaigned for temperance with picture series such as The Bottle (1847).

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