Art, literature & historyLetter: Stop Thief
1851
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Signed letter in pen and brown ink, with several sketches in pen and brown ink, and one entire sheet of sketches in graphite and watercolor, signed in pen and black ink, on two sheets of cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 228 × 144 (each sheet)
- Collection no.
- 1986.1582a
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Letter: Stop Thief — George Cruikshank. 1851.
Medium: Signed letter in pen and brown ink, with several sketches in pen and brown ink, and one entire sheet of sketches in graphite and watercolor, signed in pen and black ink, on two sheets of cream wove paper. Dimensions: 228 × 144 (each sheet).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.