Isaac Cruikshank – An Exact Representation of the Duchess’s Foot
Hand-coloured etching after Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811). Etched with the title, “An Exact Representation of the Duchess’s Foot”. Price 6d Colored. Published: No 3 Piccadilly by S W Fores 1792 Jany 4. Mounted and framed. Provenance: Peter Ward-Jackson (1916-2015).
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 3/8 in. (21 x 26.3 cm.)
Plate: 6 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (16. x 22.5 cm.)
Frame: 15 x 18 in. (38.2 x 45.8 cm.)
Associated with: Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherine of Prussia, Duchess of York.
Peter Ward-Jackson (1916-2015) was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum and a leading authority on furniture, prints and drawings, particularly ornament designs.
The print shows a hideous foot and ankle in profile to the right. The toes are twisted, deformed, and covered with warts, the ankle and heel creased and ill-shaped. In contrast to our print please view James Gillray’s “The Duchess’s Little Shoe Yielding to the Magnitude of the Duke’s Foot”. Published: Jany 24th 1792.
Both examples can be viewed in the online Collection of the British Museum.
Cruikshank, Isaac (1764-1811)
Isaac Cruikshank was a Scottish painter and caricaturist, born in Edinburgh and spent most of his career in London. Cruikshank is known for his social and political satire. His sons Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789–1856) and George Cruikshank (1792–1878) also became artists, and the latter in particular achieved fame as an illustrator and caricaturist.
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Dateline of this antique is Georgian
Height is 38.2cm (15.0inches)Width is 45.8cm (18.0inches)Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
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