* Doctor Pettigrew, the family doctor of Cruikshank’s family, was among the few who exercised a little authority over the turbulent and self-willed George. When his fortunes grew, and he became assistant surgeon to the Duchess of Kent, then librarian to the Duke of Sussex, and afterwards Mummy Pettigrew and a personage of his time, Cruikshank was a constant guest at his table, as well as an artist at his service. ** “Reading lately a very appreciative lecture just republished in pamphlet form by Mr. Walter Hamilton on the genius and art-work of George Cruikshank, I found mention made of a fact hitherto unknown to me; to wit, that George executed, many years ago, a series of very careful anatomical drawings for a work on Egyptian mummies, written by the late eminent surgeon, Mr. Pettigrew. G. C. an anatomist! For the moment I was puzzled. Yet how strangely do things come together! I happened to be turning over a ragged little old folio, of the date of 1825, entitled ‘Anatomy of the Bones and Muscles, for the use of Artists and Members of the Artists’ Anatomical Society,’ by George Simpson, surgeon; and in the list of subscribers attached to the work I found the name of ‘George Cruickshank, Esq.’ (they would spell his surname with two c’s), Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville. ‘Eureka!’ I cried. It was at the feet of George Simpson, surgeon, then, that George studied osteology and myology.”--“_Echoes of the Week,” by G. A. Sala: Illustrated London News._ [Illustration: 242] On looking over all this scattering of the sparks of great genius through wide fields; at the woful waste of much of the light and heat; at the hard and stern necessity which compelled the most thoughtful, suggestive, observant, and imaginative artist of his day to illustrate doggerel, furnish frontispieces to poor dramas, and to put the sketches of others upon wood, in the interval of such congenial labour of a noble kind as we find scattered through Roscoe s series, in the “Demonology,” and in his own separate albums of wit, humour, and human wisdom, it is impossible not to marvel. [Illustration: 243] CHAPTER VIII. SKETCHES BY BOZ, OLIVER TWIST, AND THE LIFE OF GRIMALDI.