Minneapolis Institute of Art
Monstrosities of 1821
George Cruikshank; Publisher: George Humphrey, LondonLinkedCulture matchlcp-4ebb70a4dc74
- Date
- May 20, 1821
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 75135
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
After the death of James Gillray in 1815, George Cruikshank appropriated the idea Monstrosities of 1799, and turned it into an annual series lampooning contemporary fashion. In 1821, women were not the only ones to parade their wasp-like waistlines. Men, boys, and poodles also went in for outsized headgear and narrow ankles. A grenadier wears an enormous bearskin hat, an honor bestowed on his regiment for its valor in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. England, Europe
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- Credit line
- The Minnich Collection The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, 1966
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