Excerpt from Cruikshankiana: A Choice Collection of Books Illustrated by George Cruikshank, Together With Original Water-Colors, Pen and Pencil Drawings, Etchings, Caricatures and Original Proofs
Children. Then there was the influence of Gillray, It was the influence Of a madman, and if that madness never clouded Cruikshank’s brain, at least a little Of it crept into’ his pencil. But after all, was not all that society Just a little unbalanced? In contemplating it does there not come the thought that it would have been improved by being put away for six months’ repose and quiet care in some maison de sa/nt ?
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