Cruikshank, George

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English painter and illustrator. He is remembered for his political cartoons and illustrations for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. From 1835 he published the Comic Almanack, a forerunner of Punch.

Following his father, he began with political and social caricatures in the Gillray and Rowlandson style for The Scourge (1811–16) and The Meteor (1813–14), but evolved a grotesque and humorous manner of his own in sketches of Victorian London life and in book illustration. Notable productions are his etchings, made from 1823 to 1826, for Grimms' fairy-tales and the spirited melodrama of those for Dickens's Oliver Twist and Harrison Ainsworth's Old St Paul's. His brother Robert (1789–1856) was also a caricaturist and a miniature painter. They collaborated in 1821 in illustrating the late-Georgian humours of Pierce Egan's Life in London.

A condor, poised to attack enemies, protects the nation under its wings. Blue symbolizes independence from Spain. Yellow recalls the Federation of Greater Colombia. Red stands for courage. Effective date: 7 November 1900. >>