[Robert Cruikshank, caricaturist and illustrator.] Autograph Letter Signed, offering a specimen of proposed illustrations to J. R. Planché s Jewess , to be like his brother George Cruikshank s illustrations of W. B. Rhodes s Bombastes Furioso'.

Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856), caricaturist and illustrator, son of Isaac Cruikshank and brother of George Cruikshank

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See the entries for the Cruikshanks in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape 12mo. On 20 x 11.5 cm piece of paper. Somewhat aged and worn, with small pinhole at head, and postage folds; neatly inserted in trimmed windowpane mount. The recipient is not named, the text reading: Mr Ryan was suggesting an idea of something come upon the Jewess which is very popular after the manner of Bombastes and also a ballad part of which I leave as a specimen perhaps you will consider of it and let me know / R. Cruikshank . Although Robert s brother George was responsible for a number of anti-semitic engravings, the reference here to a very popular Jewess is clearly to J. R. Planché s 1835 grand operatic drama in three acts , The Jewess . Bombastes is a reference to W. B. Rhodes s 1830 burlesque tragic opera Bombastes Furioso , for the publication of which George Cruikshank had furnished eight designs .

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• Titre: [Robert Cruikshank, caricaturist and illustrator.] Autograph Letter Signed, offering a specimen of proposed illustrations to J. R. Planché s Jewess , to be like his brother George Cruikshank s illustrations of W. B. Rhodes s Bombastes Furioso'.
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