Lazaro & the Franciscan Friar from Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote by Henry D. Inglis
George Cruikshank
British, 1792–1878
1837
An etching by George Cruikshank that turns a scene from Henry D. Inglis’s Rambles into a comic, character-driven illustration of Lazaro serving a well-fed Franciscan friar.
You’re struck by the tiny, concentrated vignette—a rotund friar dozing with a napkin at his throat in a shadowy stone alcove while a slim attendant offers drink—rendered with lively cross-hatching and set against a vast, quiet white margin.
This work shows how mid-19th-century illustrators used sharp caricature and economical line to bring travel literature to life and to shape British readers’ imagined visions of Spain.
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 7 15/16 × 4 15/16" (20.1 × 12.5 cm); sheet: 11 13/16 × 8 11/16" (30 × 22 cm)
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Department
Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
770.1964.6
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