Comments on: George Cruikshank’s Festive Season https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-696112 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:10:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-696112 I seem to recall reading that Cruikshank himself was a bit of a rake… often down to his last penny and willing to trade a drawing for an advance from his publisher. But he certainly was a master of the crowd scene. And his depections out of Dickens are the ones I like the best since they seem so authentic.

]]> By: GJM https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-695599 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:38:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-695599 Well, I do not really approve of such goings on, but it looks like they are all having a jolly good time, so I wish them well !

]]> By: Victoria https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-695005 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:40:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-695005 Just love these illustrations – such detail!

]]> By: Annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-693685 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:17:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-693685 Huzzah! Always pleased to see a Cruikshank illustration and it reminds me to get out Pickwick Papers again and read about Christmas in Dingley Dell. Off now to get a whole codfish and a barrel of oysters, to say nothing of a prodigious leg of pork into the back of the coach and four…

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-693669 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:03:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-693669 Great stuff. All the usual characters are there – embarrassing uncles, etc. Beautifully observed.

]]> By: Roger Carr https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-693347 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:04:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-693347 Serendipity. At the weekend I bought a collection of Haydn piano sonata’s that had Cruikshank street scenes on each cover . . . that’s what got my attention. Now today more of a very good thing at Spitalfields Life. Maybe there is a good Cruikshank biography I need to buy myself for Christmas? He must have been a very jolly man.

]]> By: Bronchitikat https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-693282 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:10:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-693282 Plus ça change!

]]> By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-693238 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:28:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-693238 In reply to Gary Arber.

Maybe it’s a turtle?

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-693207 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:09:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-693207 Christmas in the good old days – No TV, commercialism, phones or computerised toys.
I wonder why the man on the first print had a tortoise in the line of food entering his mouth.
Gary

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season/#comment-693062 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:03:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126079#comment-693062 In this spirit: The same procedure as every year and a merry Christmas Time to all!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

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