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The Beadle
Inscriptions
Signed across bottom of page in ink: "Geo Cruikshank"; Inscribed across top of page in ink: "A First Sketch For The/Beadle In Disturbing The/Congregation"
Provenance
?-1946: Gertrude Haskell Britton [1909-1992], Bratenahl, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art December 26, 1946-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961). European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 14-March 22, 1964). Graphic Humor. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-August 29, 1982).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Cruikshank (British, 1792–1878)
- Date
- c. 1805–78
- Medium
- graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and red wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 12.2 x 6.8 cm (4 13/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Gertrude Haskell Britton, Katherine Haskell Perkins, Mary Haskell Hunter and Melville Hanna Haskell in memory of Mrs. Coburn Haskell
- Accession no.
- 1946.445
More by George Cruikshank in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011909
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