18th Century Caricatures

A collection of 18th-century caricatures depicting fashionable figures in distinctive clothing and poses. The artworks feature playful satire, highlighting social manners in fine detail.

Mr S�bast .... (registered title)

A consequent man. / 21 (title registered (letter)) | Caricatures. (Title of all)

Netherlands, unknown, The Lame Devil, Le Diable manqué, Caricature by Talleyrand, 1832, verso - stamped, Cartoon of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, the French ambassador in London and participant in the negotiations during the London Conference on the independence of Belgium, October 1832. Bust of Talleyrand cut out and pasted on. On the back a part of the larger print with the same bust with coat of arms and banners (see FMH 6848)., print, cartoon, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, APS or AP Sc., bottom right - printed, One should know that Talleyrand has horse feet club feet., bottom - handwritten, height 203 mm, width 170 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1832 - 1832, paper, lithography (technique), hand colouring

The Cavalier - after Meissonier, James Nasmyth (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1808 - 1890)

Canadian Figure Studies, George Heriot, 1766-1844, British, undated, Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (21 × 23.5 cm), Canadian, cane, elderly, men

Enigma. Several heads of crazy in a white cotton hat forming the pear ......... .devine! it's the middle-middle Auguste Desperet (1804-1865). Press cartoon. "Enigma. Several crazy heads in a white cotton hat forming the pear ......... .devine! It's the middle-middle". Board published in "caricature" of May 10, 1832. Lithography. Paris, House of Balzac.

Chinese merchant moving his wares including vegetables in a hand-drawn wagon with a sail. Handcoloured woodcut by Pannemaker from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.

Firescreen, Block-printed paper, Horizontal rectangle, depicting the cortile of an Italian villa, with an organ grinder and a monkey. High wall and gate in background, and generalized landscape setting, printed on blue ground., France, 1825-30, Wallcoverings, Firescreen

Jan Cock Blomhoff (Amsterdam, 5 August 1779 - Amersfoort, 15 August 1853) was director ('opperhoofd') of Dejima, the Dutch trading colony in the harbour of Nagasaki, Japan, 1817 - 1824. During his first stay on the island (1809-1813) he had an affair with a Japanese woman and the couple had a child, which died in 1813. When he arrived in Dejima for the second time in August 1817 he was accompanied by his wife Titia Bergsma, whom he had married in 1815, his son Johannes, and Petronella Munts, a Dutch wetnurse and an Indonesian maid. The ladies and the little boy were not allowed to stay. In the short time they stayed there, till December 1817, they were often drawn by artists who had only ever seen Japanese women. 500 hundred different prints were made and widely circulated throughout the country.

James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, Charming-well again, 1804. Etching with hand-coloring in watercolor.

Weygand, François Joseph, Langendijk Dzn, Jan Anthonie, Rotterdam, Bemme, Joannes, Uniforms and costumes, Royal Dutch Hunter of the Colonial troops, and a negro, Colonial soldier with native man, Colonial soldier with black man, verso middle - stamped, print, prints, height 280 mm, width 203 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1775-09-05 - 1841-09-15, print maker, printmaker, 1800 - 1841, first quarter 19th century, second quarter 19th century, paper, etching, etchings, hand coloring, Dutch, 1780 - 1818-04-10, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Man has coins (the hearing), Abraham Blotling, After Petrus Staverenus, 1652 - 1690 print The hearing. A man with a hat counts coins. Amsterdam paper engraving hearing, listening (one of the five senses). money-changer

Graphic by Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) a British artist and illustrator. Dated 19th Century

Engraving depicting two French violinists . Dated 18th Century

Juan Nicasio Gallego (1777-1853). Spanish priest, poet and liberal tendencies. Portrait. Engraving, 19th century.

Cartoon on the Landzaten, 1795, Anonymous, 1795 - 1796 drawing Cartoon on the prince -minded lands that turned out to be worthless during the French invasion in 1795. A Patriot militarily wears a basket on his back in which there are two landesses that he offers for sale already calling: who buys my Leste Zoo. Northern Netherlands paper. paint (coating) wandering or travelling merchant. political caricatures and satires

Gladstone was renowned for his fondness for felling trees : psychiatrists would no doubt get to the roots of this and and show why it drove him to branch out into politics Date: 1809 - 1898

Advertisement for Phosphatine showing the tale of the two travellers; two men are standing in eighteenth-century dress in a glade. Lithograph by Devambez after M. Leloir, ca. 1910.

Spotprent op de Landzaten, 1795. Wie Koopt myn Leste Zoo (title on object). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1795 - 1796. Place: Northern Netherlands. Measurements: h 138 mm × w 103 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Lithophane mid-19th century Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin. Lithophane 197808

of 3