Comments on: George Cruikshank’s Festive Season In London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-in-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 18 Dec 2017 02:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kitanz https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-in-london/#comment-1187130 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 02:43:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162403#comment-1187130 My Goodness-What a Wild Christmas!! I really enjoy these Very Much!! Merry Christmas to All!!!

]]> By: pauline taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-in-london/#comment-1186880 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:44:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162403#comment-1186880 The incomparable Mr Cruickshank, I never tire of seeing them, thank you GA.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-in-london/#comment-1186840 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:10:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162403#comment-1186840 Holiday wishes from the Hudson River Valley. One of our “usuals” is to screen the
old version of “A Christmas Carol”, and it is so familiar by now that we can mouth the dialog.
Some of the engravings above must have surely influenced the art directors of that film.
(am thinking of the riotous party given by Mr. Fezziwig!?)
Many thanks to the Gentle Author for a daily gift of optimism!

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-in-london/#comment-1186835 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 13:27:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162403#comment-1186835 Holiday greetings from Boston,

GA, many of these Cruikshank sketches are most appropriate for the season. “Christmas Eve” and Christmas Dinner” could really be illustrations for Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” – shades of the Fezziwigs dancing. Cruikshank did illustrate “Boz” and others works for Dickens through. The original Carol was done by John Leech (1817-1864). (Had to look that one up.)

On the other side of the coin, “Theatrical Dinner” and “The Parlor and the Cellar” suggest the pitfalls of drink, a cause that Cruikshank took up in later years.

Thanks …

]]> By: Richard Smith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-in-london/#comment-1186816 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:27:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162403#comment-1186816 Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-in-london/#comment-1186802 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 09:58:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162403#comment-1186802 I liked George Cruikshank’s interpretation of the festive season, it was all riotous and drink fueled happiness that’s what I call big party time for all I like. I also liked Dylan Thomas’es version ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ and a visit to Grandpas . Best wishes to all the Spitalfieldslife people around the would. Poet John

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/16/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-in-london/#comment-1186752 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 03:37:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162403#comment-1186752 How fortunate that we no longer carry things to such excesses …

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