Another American Cruikshank' Found: John H. Manning and the New York Sporting Weeklies.

The sporting papers in New York in the early 1840s were filled with the witty and irreverent drawings of John H. Manning. A clever delineator from Boston, Manning moved to New York and worked in the shop of Robert H. Elton, known for his comic almanacs. Manning's farcical illustrations in the Whip, the Libertine, the Weekly Rake, and the Flash enable us to see important elements of the popular culture of their day, especially that segment created fur the new male sporting life appearing on the streets of American cities in the era preceding the Civil War.