[George Cruikshank, ‘the modern Hogarth’, nineteenth-century caricaturist and illustrator, associated with Charles Dickens.] Six original engravings, including illustrations of raucous scenes of life in London.

The six items - all from Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanac’ for 1845 - are in fair condition, lightly aged, and have all been trimmed, with diagonals cut from the corners resulting in minor loss. The last has a small amount of loss to the bottom left-hand corner from removal from a mount. All six are signed in type by Cruikshank at bottom left. They are captioned: ‘Flying Artillery’ (gentlemen on bended knee, declaring their love to ladies, while Cupids shoot arrows from overhead), ‘The Day After - “St. Patrick’s Day in the morning.”’ (a large group of Irishmen, with injuries from fighting, brought before a magistrate), ‘The Spring Quarter’ (a street scene, with numerous references to the word ‘spring’, including Spring Heeled Jack), ‘Stirring up the Great Fire of London’ (a group tend a large blazing bonfire of ‘Red Fire’ and ‘Blue Fire’, before Westminster Abbey), ‘Boxing-Night - A picture in the National Gallery’ (a large rioting crowd on a balcony) and ‘Court of Young England’ (a diminutive group surrounding an enthroned king and queen at court, one with placard ‘The New Generation presented by Young England’). See image.