Minneapolis Institute of Art

Monstrosities of 1821

George Cruikshank; Publisher: George Humphrey, London

Date

May 20, 1821

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

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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