David Claypoole Johnston: The American Cruikshank.

The article presents a biography of the 19th-century American artist David Claypoole Johnston. Details are given outlining his life and career, highlighting his reputation as an American contemporary of the popular British cartoonist George Cruikshank. Several periods of Johnston's life are outlined, including his early family life education, his first career as an actor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his establishment as an illustrator, caricaturist and painter.