2-913-594 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Cinderella" - painted by George Cruikshank - from the Exhibitionn of the Royal Academy, 1854. 'The admirers of Mr Cruikshank - and he has many, and none warmer than ourselves, have been pleased to see of late that, he has chosen to dwell in fairy land - that he prefers Queen Mab and Cinderella, to Bond-street dandies and the follies of the day. It would be difficult indeed to find a fitter artist to introduce to the Fairy Queen: he really seems to revel in tiny circles, and on mushroom tops, with a Puck-like vivacity and good-will. We engrave a recent instance of his skill in embodying nursery stories'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.