16-1/8x33.5” inch wood frame has glass over mat w/four openings. Top center opening is 4.25x6.75” w/handwritten letter in ink dated June 12, 1867 to Charles A. Howell regarding schedule for a meeting. Signature has great rebus design art w/ letter “G” followed by crook and shank drawings representing his name. 2.5x4” center bottom opening has matching hand addressed envelope as mailed including full “G. Cruikshank” signature. 7.5x10.5” opening at right has vintage engraving of Cruikshank by D. J. Pound from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins. 10x14” opening at left has reproduction of “The Phenix Of Elba Resuscitated By Treason” print. Frame has lt. edge wear. VG. Letter has fold as mailed. VF. Envelope, engraving, and print have lt. tanning. Good/VG. Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a top British cartoonist known for his political art as well as illustrations he did for Charles Dickens works. Howell was an art dealer and alleged blackmailer who is best known for persuading the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti to dig up the poems he buried with his wife. His reputation as a blackmailer inspired the Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story “ The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”. Ready for display. Comes w/Hake’s COA.