1865
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
"Crinolina" - and the Consequences [recto] is a 1865 ink by George Cruikshank, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a chaotic scene with a ghostly horse and rider flying through the air. Below, a crowd of people in old-fashioned clothes scatters in panic, some reaching up with open hands. The colors are mostly muted grays and blues, but there’s a splash of green and brown in the lower left corner. The artist used scratching-out—scratching the paper to create ghostly eyes in the crowd—adding a spooky touch. The title hints at a joke about crinolines, the big skirts women wore at the time, but the painting itself is more about wild energy. Check out technique: watercolor to see how artists use layers of paint to build drama.
George Cruikshank or Cruickshank ( KRUUK-shank; 27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life.
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