Contains 9 original pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor sketches mounted on 2 contemporary boards. Includes an original pencil and watercolor drawing signed in ink Geo. Cruikshank, representing 7 different sketches of figures in various positions of personal defense; an original pencil and watercolor drawing on which are 6 sketches, 4 of which are different parts of the horse; a pencil list of names and titles for various illustrations in the handwriting of George Cruikshank, and an original pencil and watercolor sketch of a woman's head, signed G. CK.; an original pencil and watercolor drawing, comprising 9 sketches for the "Comic Almanack," 1836-41; four pencil sketches of nudes, signed in ink Geo. Cruikshank; a pencil, pen-and-ink, and color drawing of a coach, signed G. CK.; two pencil sketches of the stern of an ancient "man-o-war" signed George Cruikshank; three pencil sketches, signed Geo. Cruikshank, probably made for "Beauties of Washington Irving;" an original pen-and-ink sketch for the picture "Greatest Happiness Principle," representing a woman seated on an elevation, feeding a child. To the right is a smaller sketch of the same subject, signed Geo. Cruikshank. Printed below are five lines about eating oysters in August.
