George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank
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ology"--which entire work was purchased by a joint-stock
company of boys, each drawing lots afterwards for the separate
prints, and taking his choice in rotation? The writer of this, too,
had the honor of drawing the first lot, and seized immediately upon
"Philoprogenitiveness"--a marvellous print (our copy is not at all
improved by being colored, which operation we performed on it
ourselves)--a marvellous print, indeed,--full of ingenuity and fine
jovial humor. A father, possessor of an enormous nose and family,
is surrounded by the latter, who are, some of them, embracing the
former. The composition writhes and twists about like the Kermes of
Rubens. No less than seven little men and women in nightcaps, in
frocks, in bibs, in breeches, are clambering about the head,
knees, and arms of the man with the nose; their noses, too, are
preternaturally developed--the twins in the cradle have noses of the
most considerable kind. The second daughter, who is watching them;
the youngest but two, who sits squalling
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