George Cruickshank's Grave, Kensal Green Cemetery, London

'In Loving Memory

OF

GEORGE CRUICKSHANK,

ARTIST,

DESIGNER, ETCHER, PAINTER,

BORN SEPT. 27TH., 1792,

DIED FEBY. 1ST., 1878,

AT 263 HAMPSTEAD RD., LONDON,

AGED 86.

FOR 30 YEARS A TOTAL ABSTAINER,

AND ARDENT PIONEER AND CHAMPION

BY PENCIL, WORD AND PEN,

OF

UNIVERSAL ABSTINENCE

FROM

INTOXICATING DRINKS.

HIS REMAINS

LAID IN THIS CEMETERY

FEB. 9TH., 1878

WERE REMOVED ON

NOV. 29TH., 1878

TO ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL,

WHERE THEY FINALLY REPOSE.

THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED

BY HIS AFFECTIONATE WIDOW

ELIZA CRUICKSHANK.'

Cruickshank illustrated Dickens's Oliver Twist. The granite bust of him, by William Behnes, has gone, although there is a marble copy in Dickens's Doughty Street museum house.