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19th Century Political Satire

Humorous prints portraying political satire, caricatures of historical figures, and commentary on contemporary events using vivid details.

London, Ackermann, Rudolph, England, Rowlandson, Thomas, Mock auction or Boney selling stolen goods, Napoleon sells stolen goods, 1813, verso - stamped, Cartoon on the fall of Napoleon after the lost battle of Leipzig in 1813. Napoleon as an auctioneer selling the stolen crowns of European countries. In the center, the French general Berthier holds up the Spanish crown for sale. On the right, representatives of European countries. In the foreground, a British sailor and a fat Dutchman. Behind them, the King of Württemberg, a Russian Cossack and a Prussian hussar. A standing Spaniard reaches for the crown. On the ground, a pile of crowns and documents that are yet to be offered for sale. Behind Napoleon stands his wife Marie Louise with their son Napoleon II, the king of Rome, with a monkey's head., print, cartoon, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 235 mm, width 347 mm, English, 1756-07-14 - 1827-04-22, print maker, printmaker, 1813-12-25 - 1813-12-25, paper, papier, etchin
London, Ackermann, Rudolph, England, Rowlandson, Thomas, Mock auction or Boney selling stolen goods, Napoleon sells stolen goods, 1813, verso - stamped, Cartoon on the fall of Napoleon after the lost battle of Leipzig in 1813. Napoleon as an auctioneer selling the stolen crowns of European countries. In the center, the French general Berthier holds up the Spanish crown for sale. On the right, representatives of European countries. In the foreground, a British sailor and a fat Dutchman. Behind them, the King of Württemberg, a Russian Cossack and a Prussian hussar. A standing Spaniard reaches for the crown. On the ground, a pile of crowns and documents that are yet to be offered for sale. Behind Napoleon stands his wife Marie Louise with their son Napoleon II, the king of Rome, with a monkey's head., print, cartoon, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 235 mm, width 347 mm, English, 1756-07-14 - 1827-04-22, print maker, printmaker, 1813-12-25 - 1813-12-25, paper, papier, etchin
258 assets in this story
4443-22037059
A culprit before a magistrate, The punishments of China, Dadley, J., Mason, George Henry, Stipple engraving, hand-colored, 1801, Engraved by Dadley, for W. Miller, Old Bond St. London, Jan. 1. 1801.--lower center.
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Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, Set of twelve Scenes in the Life of Master George, 1823. Hand colored soft-ground etching.
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Grand Course-au-Clocher Académique, Planche 1: Perruques Académiques 1844 Auguste Desperret French. Grand Course-au-Clocher Académique, Planche 1: Perruques Académiques 393292
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Three weeks after marriage. British Cartoon Prints Collection . George,IV,King of Great Britain,1762-1830. , Fitzherbert, Maria Anne,1756-1837. , Robinson, Mary,1758-1800. , Relations between the sexes,England,1780-1790.
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Set of twelve Scenes in the Life of Master George, Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, 1823, Hand colored soft-ground etching, Sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 5/8in. (21.3 x 27cm)
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Set of twelve Scenes in the Life of Master George, Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, 1823, Hand colored soft-ground etching, Sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 5/8in. (21.3 x 27cm)
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'The King and Noblemen Before the Stag is Turn'd Out', Robert Dighton, 1752-1814, British, undated, Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream, wove paper, Sheet: 4 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (10.8 × 34.3 cm), horseback riders, horseback riding, horses (animals), hunt, hunters, hunting, king (person), men, noblemen, people, sporting art, stag, trees
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Vive la France, Marchands de "Tableaux" se Preparant pour la Vente Publique / Picture "Dealers" Preparing for "Auction". Artist and publisher: Alfred E. Baker (American, active 1833-42). Dimensions: sheet: 14 1/16 x 10 11/16 in. (35.7 x 27.2 cm)image: 8 1/16 x 11 in. (20.4 x 27.9 cm). Date: 1840. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Set of twelve Scenes in the Life of Master George, Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, 1823, Hand colored soft-ground etching, Sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 5/8in. (21.3 x 27cm)
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They Were All Very Much Excited Against Poor Balloquat Everett Shinn (American, 1876-1953). , 1906. Conté crayon on paper, Sheet: 16 3/8 x 21 13/16 in. (41.6 x 55.4 cm). American Art 1906
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This is how we punishes the traiters. (IT)
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Honoré Daumier, Les agréments d'une flanerie , 19th century Les agréments d'une flanerie ...
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Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797-1868, Irish, Stop Thief!, 1831. Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper.
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Le chèf de la grande nation dans une triste position , Generals, Rulers, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Prints and Drawings
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Dr. Syntax Visits a Boarding School for Young Ladies, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1821, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/16 x 8 5/16 inches (12.9 x 21.1 cm), boarding school, elderly, genre subject, ladies, man, sitting, tree, youth
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Plate 5 (second group) depicting the trades of Rome, here including vendors of coal, cheese, tripe etc, from the 'Descrición de las artes que se llaman para los calles de la ciudad de Roma' Publisher Remondini Italian After Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla Italian ca. 1770-1800 See comment for 2022.71. View more. Plate 5 (second group) depicting the trades of Rome, here including vendors of coal, cheese, tripe etc, from the 'Descrición de las artes que se llaman para los calles de la ciudad de Roma'. After Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla (Italian, active Rome, 1575-99). ca. 1770-1800. Engraving with hand coloring. Remondini (Bassano, Italy). Prints
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Very Unpleasant Weather, or, the Old Saying Verified 'Raining Cats, Dogs, & Pitchforks.'!!!, Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, Published by Thomas McLean, 1788-1875, British, 1835, Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 10 11/16 x 16 5/16 inches (27.1 x 41.4 cm), Plate: 10 3/16 x 15 3/8 inches (25.8 x 39 cm), and Image: 8 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches (22.3 x 36.2 cm), apples, caricature, carts, cats, chaos, coach, dogs (animals), falling, genre subject, illustration, injured, men, meteorology, pitchforks, rain, satire, science, signs, storm, umbrellas, weather, wind, women
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The Imperial Dilly!!, unknown artist, 1802, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 8 7/16 x 12 3/4in. (21.4 x 32.4cm)
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unknown artist, eighteenth century, Noah's Ark Improved, or an Attempt to Land in the Teeth of the Wind, 1790. Etching, hand-colored.
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English Curiosity or The Foreigner Stared Out of Countenance January 1, 1794 Thomas Rowlandson. English Curiosity or The Foreigner Stared Out of Countenance. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). January 1, 1794. Hand-colored etching. S. W. Fores (London). Prints
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'An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog' by Oliver Goldsmith. Good man of Islington bitten by the dog. Illustration by Randolph Caldecott
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On July 13, 1842 at eleven o'clock in the morning, his a.r.mr The Duke of Orleans visiting Neuilly, is mortally wounded by falling from his car carried away by the horses who had become indomitable. (IT)
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National meaning over Napoleon, 1808, 1808 print Two rows with fifteen personifications from different countries in Totyaal each give their opinion about Napoleon. Top row: Egypt, Spain, Italy, China, Germany, Prussia, France and Turkey. Bottom row: Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, America, Asia and England. Numbered at the top right: 43. paper etching personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.
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The drunkards progress. Published:1846. lithograph, hand-coloured shows an archway of the nine steps of a drunkards progress, beginning with a man in fancy dress having a glass with a friend and then his gradual decline in society with poverty & disease, criminal activity, becoming a bum, and his eventual death by suicide; two men, one on horseback and another with sacks, are in foreground.
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The creation of the body of the Archduchess Louise, daughter of the Archduke Franz, on June , Johann Hieronymus Rohenkohl -, publishing house
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Cartoon with two skaters, Anonymous, After James Gillray, 1805 - 1807 print Cartoon with two skaters on the ice. paper etching skates (winter sports). political caricatures and satires
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Lord Brougham fishes from a boat with Charles Phillips. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
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A Fresh-Water Salute 1799 Thomas Rowlandson. A Fresh-Water Salute. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1799. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Prints
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A boating accident on the River Thames Date: 1828
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Downfal of monopoly in 1800 , Death, Skeletons, Chasing, Dance, Britannia Symbolic character. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
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The correct kind number 25 - Forioso or the contudanse on four strings The good kind number 25 - Forioso or the contudanse on four ropes ". Anonymous engraving, 1807.
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This print shows Prime Minister William Pitt standing on the British crown, which is possibly being flattened by the weight of his authority. He is holding a flag that depicts implements of slavery, and has an executioners axe at his waist on the left and a tobacco pipe on the right, and in his left hand holds the chains of bondage that are connected to King George III. c1795
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Richard Newton, 1777-1798, British, A Proclamation in Lilliput, 1792. Etching, hand-colored.
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Sports of a country fair. Part the second , Fairs, Accidents, Ferris wheels. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
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Engraving. - Birmingham Market Place & Statue of Nelson. Topographical Views - Wilkinson Collection, Vol.iii. Proof Engraving. View of statue of Admiral Lord Nelson, in Bull Ring Market Place, with figures around a fiddler. .
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Hand-coloured etching titled 'Bonaparte, 48 Hours after Landing' by James Gillray (1751-1815) English caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Dated 1803
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The Blenheim, Leaving the Star Hotel, Oxford. William Havell; English, 1782-1857. Date: 1831. Dimensions: . Aquatint, heightened with watercolor, on paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: William Havell.
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George Moutard Woodward, ca. 1760-1809, British, Irish Bulls!!.
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Brevets de danse (Dance Certificates) from 1840 to 1850, depicting male dancers in a 19th-century French context. The collection includes one print that is an engraving and etching, measuring 25 x 34 cm, and another print that is a lithograph with a glazed surface and metallic pigment, measuring 32 x 49 cm. The lithograph is stamped on the verso Collection Louis Ferrand
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The burned throne.
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Die über die Sieger siegende Liebe Amor victricium victrix L'Amour vainiqueur des vaniqueures Amore vincitore de vincitori. Burnacini, Lodovico Ottavio, 1636-1707. 1660 - 1699. Prints. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Love in art
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Quadrilles A droite sur les côtés, 1820 - 1829, 1820 - 1829, Paris, Quadrille (Dance), Engravings, Engraving, colored, 13 x 18.5 cm
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The Easter Hunt and The City Hunt. Artist: After Henry William Bunbury (British, Mildenhall, Suffolk 1750-1811 Keswick, Cumberland). Dimensions: Plate: 11 5/8 × 15 9/16 in. (29.6 × 39.5 cm)Sheet: 12 1/2 × 15 15/16 in. (31.7 × 40.5 cm). Etcher: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Date: May 1, 1803.Two scenes, one above the other, with hunters on horseback riding to the left. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The Lady and the Devil Description: "A Scene in the New Farce of the Lady and the Devil" by Benbow. Satirical print on the relationship between King George IV and his estranged wife Caroline of Brunswick. Date: June 1820 king, satire, cartoon, brunswick, queen, georgian, regency, georgeiv, farce, benbow, 1820, carolineofbrunswick
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Gladiator sacrifice to the Aztec god Xipe Totec or Tlatlauhca, Mexico. An Aztec warrior with sword and shield fights a captured enemy on a raised stage before an audience. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.
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N ° 17 / Simplified movement constructions by means of rubber or elastic. (IT)
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The fall of Washington--or Maddy in full flight. Cartoon showing President James Madison and probably John Armstrong, his secretary of war, both with bundles of papers, fleeing from Washington, with burning buildings behind them. engraving, colour. 1814.
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LITOGRAFIA-TAUROMAQUIA-CAIDA DEL PICADOR. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA DE MADRID-GRABADOS COLOREADOS. MADRID. SPAIN.
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London, Walker, Williams, Charles, Political Quadrille, Politiek quadrille, 1806, verso - stamped, Two tables with four at each table Card players playing the card game quadrille. On the left Frederick William III, King of Prussia, Tsar Alexander I, English King George III and Spanish King Charles IV. On the right Napoleon, Austrian Emperor Francis II, a Dutchman and Pope Pius VII. The Dutchman says that he has been given a king (Louis Napoleon) without asking for it. Cartoon on the political situation in Europe in 1806. See also the sequel from 1808., print, picture, cartoon, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller History plates, height 328 mm, width 395 mm, English, print maker, printmaker, 1806-10 - 1806-10, first quarter 19th century, paper, etching, etchings, hand-colouring, Publication (Event), Publication, British, publisher
4443-19608270
The Good Shepherd, or Cambria's Delight, William Jones, active 1779-1780, 1784, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 6 7/16 x 7 1/2in. (16.4 x 19.1cm)
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One of a Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Sayings, John Phillips, active 1840-1852, 1828, Soft-ground etching, colored by hand, Sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 1/2in. (29.5 x 24.1cm)
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The counter-revolution. (IT)
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unknown artist, eighteenth century, Essex-Calve-Lry for Internal Defence, 1794. Etching, hand-colored.
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Degree des Ages - Sayra and the Ludzkie Opris. Georgin, François (1801 1863), Pellerin
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African slaves being tortured and beaten on a Surinam plantation, while a colonial plantation owner smokes a tobacco pipe. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i Popoli), Florence, 1842.
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Flaminius Restoring Liberty, Comic History of England
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Birth of the imperial prince. (IT)
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Blue and Buf Loyalty, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1788, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 7 1/4 x 12 7/8in. (18.4 x 32.7cm)