“The Triumphal Entry of the 100,000 (crown’)s or the lucky hit for e-o t-o p-o ho. and all the rest of the o’s.”

[Isaac Cruikshank]

“The Triumphal Entry of the 100,000 (crown’)s or the lucky hit for e-o t-o p-o ho. and all the rest of the o’s.”

Published by S. W. Fores

[20 November 1791]

Foldout, hand-colored etching

The Duke and Duchess of York entering London on the back of John Bull, the English taxpayer. The Duke, George III’s second son, had just married his cousin, daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia, in Berlin. A second marriage was held at Buckingham Palace on 23 November 1791.

Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811), a highly skilled etcher and print-maker, was his sons’ principal teacher.

Source: George Cruikshank: The Artist, the Humorist, and the Man, with Some Account of His Brother, Robert. A Critico-Biographical Essay. Illustrated Chiefly from Original Drawings by G. Cruikshank, in the Possession of the Author. By William Bates, B.A., R.C.S.E., Etc.

From the collection of Josephine Lea Iselin.