18th Century Satirical Art

Whimsical watercolor and lithography depicting humorous scenes of societal behaviors, featuring lively characters in period fashion.

The hopes of the fammily : Or Miss Marrowfat at home for the holidays , Musicians, Butchers, Dogs, Meat. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797-1868, Irish, Beauty and The Beast, 1840. Lithograph, hand-colored.

Postiljon is stopped by death as a coachman, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, 1830 print Paris paper Death as skeleton. 'sudden death'. postman. animal traction, animal-drawn vehicle (carriage etc.)

Lewis Vaslet, 1742-1808, British, The Spoiled Child, Scene III, ca. 1802. Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Ce que l'Angleterre appelle un trait-d'union. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Johnny in service to the portrait painter Carmine at his gallery. When alone, Johnny defaces the portraits with chalk and causes a furore. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, Ackermann, London, 1822.

Lady writing a love letter , Writing, Love letters. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Exhibition "Stare" Case 1811 Thomas Rowlandson British One of Rowlandson's most ebullient designs, this etching simultaneously mocks the exhibition-going public and the London art establishment. Visitors eager to view the annual spring exhibition of the Royal Academy struggle to negotiate a steep spiral staircase at Somerset House on the Strand. Beginning in 1780, these displays were held in the Great Room of Sir William Chambers's grand Neoclassical building, but to reach the galleries, visitors had to climb three long, narrow flights - a challenging approach that Chambers hoped would suggest an ascent to Parnassus. Focusing on the practical difficulties the stairs presented for two-way foot traffic, Rowlandson imagines the cascade produced when a hefty lady trips on a dog, then knocks over her fellow climbers like ninepins, Most of the bodies upended are female, and since women at this date wore no lower undergarments, the general confusion grants nearby males a glimpse of female nu

The package boat Gallerie Droller Scenen for the theater newspaper, th year, No, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

If I were a corporal vet you see () Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint (1792 1845), Gihaut Frères

Bankers doing business in the rotunda of the Bank of England, 1820. Doctor Syntax and wife inspecting the Bank of England. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Isaac Robert Cruikshank from The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, in the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis, J. Johnson, London, 1820.

The Warm Hand. Jean François Bosio; French, 1764-1827. Date: 1817. Dimensions: 177 × 246 mm (image); 280 × 365 mm (sheet). Stipple engraving with etching, roulette, and hand-coloring, on heavy cream laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Jean Francois Bosio.

Killing with Kindness. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London); After George Moutard Woodward (British, ca. 1760-1809 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 8 1/8 in. (24.3 × 20.6 cm)Plate: 8 9/16 × 7 5/8 in. (21.8 × 19.4 cm). Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Series/Portfolio: Matrimonial Comforts. Date: October 1, 1799. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Sailor's Return October 10, 1799 Thomas Rowlandson. The Sailor's Return. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). October 10, 1799. Hand-colored etching. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

Modern Antiques 1811 Thomas Rowlandson Among a collection of Egyptian and classical antiques a young woman is embraced by an officer, who draws her into a mummy case. Also in the room is an elderly man with a monocle who inspects a sarcophagus. On the floor an open book reads: "Loves of the Gods, embell'd with Cuts". Modern Antiques. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1811. Hand-colored etching. Published by Thomas Tegg (British, 1776-1846). Prints

Netherlands, Smies, Jacob, Marcus, Jacob Ernst, Veelwaard, Daniël (I), The Year 1804 !!!, Failed air journey of A. Hopman (plate II), 1804, Chaos in the notary's office where Abraham Hopman and Louis Samuel Loude have their will drawn up. Their wives are pulling their hair out, children are crying on the floor. In the background, the unsuccessful attempts to fill the balloon with hot air on the Overtoom in Amsterdam on 5 July 1804. Plates of previous failed balloon flights hang on the walls. A vessel equipped with a cannon, rudder, flags and a barometer hangs from the ceiling. Hopman and Loude attempted to make a trip in a balloon called 'Lust tot Onderzoek' on 5 and 6 July 1804. Ultimately, the balloon was launched without passengers. See also the pendant., print, cartoon, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 205 mm, width 255 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1766-08-14 - 1851-02-28, print maker, printmaker, 1804 - 1805, paper, papier, etching, etchings, hand colouring, 1774-03-19 - 18

Woman meeting a portly dandy in a parlour with large mirror and sofa. Charmed to meet you! (What an oaf!) Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Jean Gabriel Scheffer from Petites Scenes du Monde, Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense, Gihaut Freres, Paris, 1829.

A scene from the Posse Salerl, the beautiful Viennese costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Signing the Treaty in Yedo; Walkiewicz, Władysław (CA 1833-1900), Fajans, Maksymilian (Warsaw; Litographic and photographic plant; 1853-1892), Nowelecki, Aleksander (1826-1884); 1862 (1862-00-00-1862-00-00);

Sketches from Life in Paris: Seated Woman and Seated Man - two drawings on one mount, Ambrose Poynter, 1796-1886, British, ca. 1835, Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 3 7/8 × 5 1/4 inches (9.8 × 13.3 cm), bench, buttons (fasteners), dress, epaulettes, genre subject, headscarf, man, peasants, seated, shako, spats, tray, uniform, woman, Europe, France, Paris, Île-de-France

The breakfast , Hunting, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Waking. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

La Coterie Debouché, Henry Heath, active 1824-1835, British, 1825, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 8 1/4 x 14 3/4in. (21 x 37.5cm)

The night converter, Pantomimal ballet from Scribe and Aumer theatrical picture gallery for the theater newspaper, st year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

"Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt.". James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1791. Dimensions: 180 × 196 mm (image); 219 × 245 mm (plate); 227 × 257 mm (sheet). Etching in dark brown, with stipling and handcoloring, on cream wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Wattier, Émile Charles (n.1800-11-17-D.1868-11-22), 2nd ascending step. The disorder (registered title (letter)), 1824. Colored lithography on woven paper. Balzac house.

The parsonage , Religious dwellings, Interiors, Dogs, Pianists. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Doctor Syntax, in the Middle of a Smoking HotPolitical Squabble, wishes to Wet his W histle. Dated: published 1813. Medium: hand-colored etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

Emigres, French Revolution

Miseries miscellaneous, 12 , Conversation. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Single and Married December 1, 1791 Thomas Rowlandson. Single and Married. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). December 1, 1791. Hand-colored etching. S. W. Fores (London). Prints

African enslaved person Congo junior in livery with young ladies in the parlour 5, and Congo seeing the white cliffs of Dover from the deck of a ship 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Eliza Rotch Farrars The Adventures of Congo in Search of his Master, J. Harris and Son, London, 1823. Eliza Farrar, 1791-1870, was the daughter of a Nantucket whaling family who white several childrens books.

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, The Visits (Les Visites), 1800, color aquatint and etching, printed à la poupée with hand-coloring, on paper.

Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756 1827 ), The Disappointed Epicures, 1787, hand colored etching

What do you have, madame .... (IT)

Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Dit, 1803-1847). "The metamorphoses of the day. System of attraction". Colored lithography, 1829. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 34930-4 Candle, burn, lithography colored, morality, personification, interior scene, caricature

A leap year drawing room, or the pleasures of petticoat government / Cruikshank fecit. | Library of Congress

Figure studies (third leaf), 1833, Christiaan Andriessen, 1833 print Leaf with figures: below a group of women sitting on and at baskets, a standing woman at the bottom right in a basket with eels. Part of a series of six magazines with figure studies of Dutch traditional costumes, street figures and tuiks, 1833. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper folk costume, regional costume. street-trader

Bernbrunn, Karl.

A Dutch Abbess and her Nymphs April 4, 1796 Thomas Rowlandson. A Dutch Abbess and her Nymphs. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). April 4, 1796. Hand-colored etching. S. W. Fores (London). Prints

Un amateur. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Mr. Tout Affaires.... Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Plate 4 of 6. Satirical Cartoon - Birmingham Bag Man: Colting, 24/10/1792. Engraver: Edward Hedges Cornhill .

The dewater. (IT)

Satiric scene in a cafe', ca. 1840, Germany 19th Century.

Twelfth night , Caricatures. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Monnier, Henry Bonaventure (n.1799-06-07-D.1877-01-03), my dance days have passed (registered title (letter)). Colored lithography, woven paper. Balzac house.

Thomas Rowlandson, British (1756-1827), Grog on Board, 1789, hand-colored etching and aquatint

Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. Sing a song for sixpence.. Caldecott, Randolph (1846-1886). Illustrations. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Nursery rhymes, Benches, Clothing & dress , England , 1880-1889, Leggings, Eating & drinking , 1800-1899, Dining rooms , England

Costumes of Sicily, Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829, Pen and black ink, and watercolors on paper, A man with a donkey carrying baskets with fruits is shown at left in the middle distance. 'Venditore di Frutta di Monreale.' In the corner are a woman with a dog, 'Donna di Catania,' a woman and a man with gun and sword, 'Vomo, e Donna della Piana de Greci.' At right are a standing woman and in front of her a seated woman with a child, 'Donna di Siracusa. Donna di Palermo.', Italy, 1828, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Crinololinomaniaie./38./ Statesant at the first price of good performance and crinoline. (Registered title (letter)) | Crinolinomania. (Title of all)

A town gentlemen exclaiming to his servant about a extremely long doctor's bill. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1823.

Cries of London, No. 7 : Old cloaths any old cloaths , Peddlers, Women domestics, Clothing & dress. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

McLean's Scraps for Albums, McLean, active 1820s, 1826, Aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 9 3/4 x 9 1/4in. (24.8 x 23.5cm)

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

Drawing, Water color; A midwife with a baby on the way to church for christening; Designed by Saverio della Gatta (Italian, 1777 - 1829); Italy; black chalk, pen and black ink, various water colors on paper.; 11.9 × 18.1 cm (4 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

I beg you, my friend! ... Lend me 30 francs ...

The Bulstrode siren , Nobility, Politicians, Opera singers, Singing, Courtship, Couples, Love, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Billington, Elizabeth, 1768-1818. James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings

A penny barber , Barbers, Barbershops, Shaving. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Four couples walking Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1749-1826). Four couples walking. Gouache on cut carton glued on a sheet of washed blue paper.

She stoops to conquer , Prisons, Prisoners, Seduction, Dogs. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

School for Gallantry. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 1/16 in. (25.7 × 33.1 cm)Plate: 9 13/16 × 10 7/8 in. (24.9 × 27.6 cm). Date: May 10, 1802. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Kitchen Staff (recto); Mountainous Landscape with Hiker (verso). Artist: John Leech (British, London 1817-1864 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 6 3/8 in. (13 x 16.2 cm). Date: 1837-64. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A nightwatchman brings a drunk home, Regency era. Watchman with lantern holds up a drunken alderman and MP. His shocked wife holds a candle at the door. Taking Home. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Henry Brooke after a drawing by Richard Dagley from Takings, or the Life of A Collegian, John Warren, London, 1821.

A room divided into three parties / left side / center / right side (IT)

First Step to the Coach Box 1805-1851 England. Hand-colored etching on paper . Henry Alken

Universal exhibition of Paris.

A Naked Truth, or Nipping Frost February 2, 1803 After () Charles Williams British. A Naked Truth, or Nipping Frost 392567

Viennese scenes and popular employment , sheet , Une femme Tyroloise, un Valet de Maison, et and Italy qui of the figure de pltre a vienne, The Tyrolerinn, the caretaker and an Italian with Gyps figures in Vienna, Georg Emanuel Opiz also Opiz -, Artist, Benedikt Piringer -, Copper Engraver, Joseph Eder -, Publishing house

Mr, Fichtner as Louis in The Paris Task Protection costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, After, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

It does not fight and embellish! / N ° 4 bis. (Registered title (letter)) | Medals or contrasts. (Title of all)

Karl Ludwig Costenoble as a Schylok and vinegar dealer in The Merchant of Venice costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, After, Johann Christian Schoeller -, Artist, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver

John Raphael Smith, 1752-1812, British, Shooting Enamour'd Sportsman, 1801. Hand colored mezzotint.

Drawing, At a Stream in the Mountains Near Rome; Bartolomeo Pinelli (Roman, 1781 - 1835); Italy; paper

La lettre qu'on lit. - Je vous attendrais - à la grande Chaumière - Barriere du Rocheauert - Dimanche à l'heure que - vous me diré, où dans - un autre lieu que vous me désignerai. - La réponse qu'on cachette. - Monsier - Je sui au desespoire de ne - pouvoire me rande près de vous de puis deux jour je sui retenu - par un malle de genout qui - me force de gardere le lit au - moment de partire je été - obligés de me remaitre - au lit il fot esperer que - sela vat alé mieux ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

Viennese scenes and popular employment , sheet , Le Vendeur de Rubans, Une Bourgeoise, La femme d´un Bouchet Avec Son Valet, The band maker, the citizens woman, the Fleischhauerinn with her servant,

What do you think of the expedition / Ship talkative. (registered title) | The metamorphoses of the day. (title of all)

Madame Very Restauranteur, Palais Royal Paris and La Belle Liminaudiere au Caffee De Mille Collone, Palais Royale Paris 1814 Thomas Rowlandson Two images on one sheet. At top, a woman with her hair piled high sits at a table with a mirror behind her. In front of her are trays filled with cards, fruit, a plant, and a reading lamp. Below, a fashionably dressed woman sits at an ornately decorated chair and table, studying a pamphlet inscribed "Paris" at top. Three men ogle at her from a table below at left.. Madame Very Restauranteur, Palais Royal Paris and La Belle Liminaudiere au Caffee De Mille Collone, Palais Royale Paris. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1814. Hand-colored etching. Prints

the (Directoire), Directory, or Directorate, a committee which governed France from 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety. On 9 November 1799, it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the French Consulate. It gave its name to the final four years of the French Revolution.

Wasvrouwen van Chiaja Te Napels; Chiaja laundressers in Naples; Travel to Italy, Sicily and Malta - 1778.

The French writer Voltaire (1694-1778) wrote his satire Candide, a good-hearted young man but one is completely naive. Candide travels the world and encounters many mishaps. His goal is to find security and also to win his love Cunegonde, but she, too, is not so intelligent and is willing to betray to further her own aims. Candide's mentor is Pangloss, who teaches him that this world is the best of all possible worlds and it is that belief that is the target of the novel's satire. This illustration shows Candide after escaping from Bulgarians and being offered help from an honest Dutch, but pe

William Dent, active 1784-1793, The Flattering Glass, or Nell's Mistake, 1791. Etching with watercolor on laid paper.

Marie Taglioni as Sylphide costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Hackney Assembly 1802 Thomas Rowlandson In a ballroom, two gentlemen address a woman who holds a fan at right.. Hackney Assembly. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1802. Hand-colored etching. Prints

Eight vignettes of characters of both sexes. Pen and ink drawing by W.L., 1835.

Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, dinner.. 1910. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. Rare Book Division

Wasvrouwen van Chiaja te Napels. Blanchisseuses de Chiaja, à Naples (title on object). Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte - 1778 (series title). Draughtsman: Louis Ducros. Dating: 1778. Measurements: h 184 mm × w 235 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Veneration , Antiques. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Set of eight (3): Cries of London, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1799, Etching with aquatint, colored by hand, Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 3/4in. (36.8 x 29.8cm)

Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756 1827 ), The Times, probably 1783, hand colored etching

Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, Virgo - Unmatched Enjoyment, undated. Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper.

Children around a viewing cupboard on a square, 1820 print The owner of the viewing box pulls strings attached to the cupboard, under his arm he wears a trumpet. paper etching performance in the open air (pleasure fair). performance in the open air (pleasure fair). horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba - CC - out of doors. horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba - CC - out of doors

Platonic love , Disabled veterans, Peg legs. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Pot Fair Cambridge. Artist: Henry William Bunbury (British, Mildenhall, Suffolk 1750-1811 Keswick, Cumberland). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 7 1/2 × 8 15/16 in. (19 × 22.7 cm). Etcher: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Date: May 1, 1803. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Colour illustrations by Arthur Hopkins showing the process and matchmaking behind engagement and marriage in the 1880's. Date: June 21st 1884

Paris salon circa 1800, with fashionable guests playing a game of cards under a bouillotte (lampshade). Drawn by Jean-Francois Bosio, lithographed by Gaulard. Chromolithograph from Paul Lacroix's "Directoire, Consulat et Empire," Paris, 1884.

The claw shot, / or take it as you will want (TI)

Saint Germain de pres, (1955), by Jacques Prévert (1900 - 1977); French poet and screenwriter. Saint-Germain-des-Prés; one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The Breakfast, from "Poetical Sketches of Scarborough" 1813 Thomas Rowlandson Twenty-one plates etched by Thomas Rowlandson after James Green. The aquatint was added by John Bluck and Joseph Stadler. The sketches by Green were made as souvenirs and not intended for publication, but were ultimately published due to popular demand.. The Breakfast, from "Poetical Sketches of Scarborough". "Poetical Sketches of Scarborough". Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1813. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

The good kind number 12 - Hot hand Jean Fran�ois Bosio (1764-1827). "The good kind number 12: the hot hand - 1803".

Mass fall: so the electricity electricity of freedom, will reverse all the trones of the crown robberies The chute en masse: so the electric spark of freedom, will reverse all the thrones of crowned brigands .

Allegorical figure of the Triumph of France. A woman in laurel wreath of victory holding a crown, riding on a biga two-horse chariot between palm trees. Taken from Les Campagnes de Louis XIV, MS 2142, Suppl. Francais, Bibliotheque Imperiale. La Triomphe de la France, XVIIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Franz Kellerhoven after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandres Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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