IndieterminacyMay 29, 2025

#SteveBell analysing The Worship of Bacchus – a 19th-century study of binge Britain, by #GeorgeCruikshank

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2010/jun/02/steve-bell-worship-of-bacchus

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/05/worship-bacchus-cruikshank-rude-britannia

Its a wonderful document of various strands of society - from the perspective of temperance.

Steve Bell goes drinking with artist George Cruikshank

The Guardian cartoonist sneaks into the Tate vaults to unravel the stories behind George Cruickshank's satirical 19th-century masterpiece The Worship of Bacchus

The Guardian
Of Bookish ThingsNov 5, 2024

Why #Ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude

In 1863 #GeorgeCruikshank, the #Caricaturist and #BookIllustrator of #CharlesDickens’s #Novels, announced:

"That anyone has ever thought of the gross absurdity and impossibility of there being such things as ghosts of wearing apparel … Ghosts cannot, must not, dare not, for decency’s sake, appear without clothes; and as there can be no such thing as ghosts or spirits of clothes, why then, it appears that ghosts never did appear and never can appear."

Stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside #Folklore, are exceedingly rare

Note: #Ghost in white sheet (Funeral Shroud)

#Victorian #VictorianBritain #VictorianSocialClass #Mid19thCentury #Spiritualism #PsychicalResearch #GhostStories #VictorianLiterature #Paranormal #AndrewLang

https://theconversation.com/why-ghosts-wear-clothes-or-white-sheets-instead-of-appearing-in-the-nude-241948

Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude

The issue of ghost clothes is interesting for historians of the supernatural because, like a loose thread, pulling at it starts to unravel some of the assumptions about matter in spiritualism.

The Conversation
EssAeEmApr 5, 2024

Punch and Judy is a traditional English puppet show that dates back to the 17th Century and is known for its slapstick violence and bawdy humor. Puppeteer Glyn Edwards once described its central character, Mr. Punch, as "a subversive maverick who defies authority." #FolkyFriday

🎨: George Cruikshank

#PunchAndJudy #MrPunch #PuppetShow #Puppets #England #GeorgeCruikshank

Stephen ByrneJan 19, 2023
Two illustrations in #Dickens' of the #pawnbrokers shop. From #SketchesByBoz (right) and The Life and Adventures of #MartinChuzzlewit (left). #GeorgeCruikshank illustrated the Sketches when they were published together for the first time in 1839. #Phiz aka #HablotKnightBrowne illustrated Martin Chuzzlewit for the 1844 edition. He illustrated ten books by Dickens. The boxes shown were for the privacy of those who required it and had their own discreet entrance separate from the main shop.