Comments on: George Cruikshank’s Festive Season https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/13/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-ii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:55:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/13/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-ii/#comment-1665600 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:55:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201684#comment-1665600 Who-in-their-right-mind would NOT want to be part of that riotous Theatrical Dinner?
A rollicking event with wigs askew, costumes coming undone, the clatter of armor hitting the floor,
the shout of “more ALE, if you PLEASE……..!”, crowns and felt hats on the wrong heads, kilts
in an uproar (goodness!), and ladies spilling out of their corsets. Well, ‘course. Smoking, toasting, singing, reciting soliloquies at full volume, devilish proposals, and coy “why, sir!” refusals. And the Commedia clown arches above everyone, conducting and directing. Surely, the most prized invitation of the Season.

Hurrah and huzzah.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/13/george-cruikshanks-festive-season-ii/#comment-1665348 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:32:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201684#comment-1665348 So much detail in each one! Was the artist George any relation to Dan Cruikshank, who still lives in the area if I remember correctly?

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