author
George Washington Carleton
1832–1901
A lively 19th-century New York publisher and caricaturist, he mixed a sharp eye for humor with a taste for travel writing. His books turned sketches from Cuba and Peru into witty, illustrated scenes for American readers.
2 Audiobooks
Our Artist in Cuba Fifty drawings on wood. Leaves from the Sketch-book of a traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5.
by George Washington Carleton
Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868
by George Washington Carleton
About the author
Born in New York in 1832, George Washington Carleton worked first as a clerk before moving into cartooning and publishing. Contemporary reference sources describe him as a caricaturist, illustrator, and publisher, and note that he contributed caricatures to periodicals including The Lantern and The Picayune.
In 1857 he became a partner in the firm of Rudd and Carleton, which later became G. W. Carleton & Co. His publishing house was known for a broad list with a particular interest in humorous books, and Carleton sometimes supplied illustrations himself.
He also wrote and published travel-based picture books drawn from winter trips abroad, including Our Artist in Cuba (1865) and Our Artist in Peru (1866). Library records and archival listings confirm his lifespan as 1832–1901 and show that his papers survive in the New York Public Library.