19th Century Satirical Illustrations

A collection of vintage satirical engravings featuring theatrical scenes, social commentary, and humorous depictions of societal figures in a historical context.

Marshalsea Prison , Prisons, Prisoners, Marshalsea Prison Southwark, London, England. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Reserl, The Night Walker, Posse von Told Gallerie Droller Scenen for the Theaterzeitung, th year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Georgian gentleman and his wife at the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1820. The doctor uses his cane to point to a painting, while a young man reads a book to a girl. Doctor Syntax at the exhibition. 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.

Cabal and Love by Bäuerle Gallerie Droller Scenen to the theater newspaper, nd vol, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Procession of a country corporation , Parades & processions. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

The March of Morality 1827-29 William Heath ('Paul Pry') This satire, set outside Thomas McLean's London printshop, shows a beadle dressed in a braid trimmed hat and greatcoat. Flourishing a cane, he walks along a sidewalk followed by two women who wear very large hats and low cut dresses. Three ragged salesmen hastily drape nude statues while the shop window behind displays colored caricatures of nudes including the Hottentot Venus and Achilles in Hyde Park. At right signs are lettered "Coffee Shop Beds," "Religious Tract Society / Cant" and "Dr. Eady / Church St Sch." and "Just published by Stockdale, St. James's Square". The March of Morality. William Heath ('Paul Pry') (British, Northumbria 1794/95-1840 Hampstead). 1827-29. Hand-colored etching. Thomas McLean (British, 1788-1875). Prints

Marshalsea Prison , Prisons, Prisoners, Marshalsea Prison Southwark, London, England. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Scene images from The House of Temperate by Johann Nestroy costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Gisperl and Fisperl, Parody of the magic games of Bäuerle Gallerie Drollerie Scenen for the theater newspaper, st year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

The Talisman, Posse from Nestroy, Carl Carl as a donation, Johann Nestroy as Titus Feuerfuchs and others, Costümbild No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Consequences of a successful French invasion. Plate 2d. We explain de rights of man to de noblesse , Servants, Military officers, Criminals, Guillotines Punishment, Damiens, Robert François, 1715-1757, Felton, John, 1595-1628, Ravaillac, François, 1578-1610. James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings

Square with men and women who view prints and posts, 1832 print paper etching print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

Public walk Louis-Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832). Public walk. Aquatint in color.

An auctioneer takes bids on the garter of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Other lots include the finger of St. Nepomuck, the leg bone of St. Francis, and tears of St. Mary Magdalen. Auction of relics at Avignon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and abridged from Moritz August von Thummels Reise in die mittäglichen Provinzen van Frankreich im Jahre 17851786, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821.

Quae Genus with a Spendthrift, from "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax" September 1, 1821 Thomas Rowlandson. Quae Genus with a Spendthrift, from "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax". "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax". Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). September 1, 1821. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

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A sudden squall in Hyde Park , Rain, Crowd, Parks, Nobility, Princes, Horses, Carriages & coaches, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Skating at Boston (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III) March 12, 1859 After Winslow Homer American. Skating at Boston (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III). After Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836-1910 Prouts Neck, Maine). March 12, 1859. Wood engraving. Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Prints

Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756 - 1827 ), A Squall in Hyde Park, 1791, hand-colored etching and aquatint, Rosenwald Collection

Pot fair Cambridge, the college gate , Clergy, Dogs, Pottery, Accidents, Horses, Horseback riding. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Modesy / The dissipator / Modesty and Wastefulness unknown, Bergeret

The Promenade: fashionable tourists strolling outside Cracknill Shells, Pebbles and Curiosities Shop. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson, aquatint by J.C. Stadler, after a sketch by J. Green from Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Ackermann, London, 1813.

Paul Gavarni, Mascarade, c 1831 Mascarade

Ceiling enthusiasts at the show. .

Le Niveau Nationale (The National Level) ca. 1789 Anonymous, French, 18th century French. Le Niveau Nationale (The National Level) 398708

Mr. Burchell's First Visit, from "The Vicar of Wakefield" May 1, 1817 Thomas Rowlandson The Vicar of Wakefield was written by Oliver Goldsmith between 1761-62, published in 1766, and later illustrated with twenty-four designs by Thomas Rowlandson in 1817.. Mr. Burchell's First Visit, from "The Vicar of Wakefield". "The Vicar of Wakefield". Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). May 1, 1817. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

Christie's Auction Room, Augustus Charles Pugin, French, active Great Britain, ca. 1762-1832, Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756-1827, John Bluck, British, 1791-1832, Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764-1834, Brush and wash, etching and aquatint on paper, Plate showing Christie's Auction Room from the series 'Microcosm of London.' A crowd stands in a high-ceilinged room, with light streaming in through high windows. Paintings in ornate frames are hung salon-style, with vaguely recognizable classical compositions: an Annunciation, an Adoration, a saint, an equestrian scene, a portrait. A reclining Venus is displayed on the auction stand, and before her a lively and colorful crowd is shown, with detailed dress and caricatured features., London, United Kingdom, Europe, February 1, 1808, architecture, interiors, Print, Print

Gillray cartoon on vaccination against Smallpox using Cowpox serum, 1802. Artist: James Gillray

Georgian gentleman meeting the cast on stage at the London Opera. Introduced to an old soprano, while dancers rehearse in the background. Doctor Syntax behind the scenes at the Opera, London. 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.

Gentlemen of good house. (Title registered (letter))

Evans, Scene in a Coaching Club Stable, 1881, wood engraving on paper.

Gilray cartoon on vaccination against Smallpox using Cowpox serum, 1802. In 1796 the English physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) proved efficacy of practice, but opposition continued for a while. Hand-coloured engraving

Dutch cartoon, 1794 predicting advance of ballooning by 1804. Basket/gondola hangs from the ceiling, women and children in hysterics as two propsective aeronauts make wills. Prints of French ballooning accidents on wall. Aernautics

Breaking up for the Vacation, John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797-1868, Irish, 1840, Lithograph, hand-colored, Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 1/2in. (27 x 36.8cm)

A Dasher! Or the Road to Ruin in the West. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London); After George Moutard Woodward (British, ca. 1760-1809 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 in. × 13 5/8 in. (22.8 × 34.6 cm). Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Date: November 5, 1799. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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

2nd event of July 17, 1789. / Louis XVI shows at one of the windows of the Great Hall of the Town Hall, the National Cocade in Hat Jean-François Janinet (1752-1814). Second event of July 17, 1789. Louis XVI shows at one of the windows of the Great Hall of the Town Hall, the National Cocade in the hat. Aquatint in color, Lavis way.

Return of the citizen Jean-Jacques-Fran�ois Le Barbier (1738-1826). Return of the Citizen. Print.

fine arts, Cruikshank, George (1792 - 1878), graphic, series ""The bottle"", plate 7, Husband, in a State of Furious Drunkenness, Kills His Wife with the instrument of All Their Misery"", etching, 1847, private collection,

Les Graces. Inconveniences in Quadrille Dancing George Cruikshank (British, 1792-1878). Les Graces. Inconveniences in Quadrille Dancing, 1817. Etching, hand-colored on wove paper, 21 3/8 x 26 5/16 in. (54.4 x 66.8 cm). European Art 1817

Saint François Régis. Coloured lithograph ().

Coaching: The Elephant and Castle on the Brighton Road, Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding, 1781-1851, British, after James Pollard, 1792-1867, British, 1826, Aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 21 1/4 x 30 1/2in. (54 x 77.5cm)

The girl from the fairy world or the farmer as a millionaire, Magic game by Raimund Gallerie Droller Scenen for the theater newspaper, Jg, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Charitable and greed / Charity and Greed. unknown, Bergeret

The Great Russian Ball at the Academy of Music, November 5, 1863 Published 1863 United States. Wood engraving on buff wove paper . Winslow Homer

Zeiten des Tages Morgens Aus dem Originalbild von Hogarth aus The Works of Hogarth veröffentlicht London 1833 / Times of the Day Morning From the original picture by Hogarth from The Works of Hogarth published London 1833, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,

L'entrée au musée (Entrance to the Museum). Dated: 1808. Dimensions: plate: 20 × 26.7 cm (7 7/8 × 10 1/2 in.) sheet: 25.6 × 32.7 cm (10 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.). Medium: etching with publisher's hand coloring in watercolor on pale green laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: French 19th Century.

Cartoon from Puck. Bernhard Gillam (United States, 1856-1896)Joseph Keppler (Austria, Vienna, active United States, 1838-1894). United States, 1880-1889. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Life scenes from Uilen mirrors, 1875 - 1903 print Leaf with 8 performances about the life of Tijl Uilenspiegel. A caption under each image. Numbered at the top right: No. 58. Haarlem paper letterpress printing Owls

The Pavior's Joy 1792 Thomas Rowlandson. The Pavior's Joy. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1792. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Prints

Pepita pretty sister José according to C. v. Reinhart. A clip from a German magazine Anger, C. (N.N.), Gönys (N.N.), Reinhart, C. (N.N.)

Corn Exchange, John Bluck, active 1791-1831, British, And Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, after Augustus Charles Pugin, 1762-1832, French, And after Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1808, Aquatint, hand-colored

Charles Rosenberg, active 1828-1848, West Country Mails at the Gloucester Coffee House, Piccadilly, 1828. Aquatint, hand-colored.

The Third Volume of the Registers. Illustration from the Charles Dickens novel Little Dorrit by H.K. Browne known as Phiz

The 'Dilly' Looking Up, John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797-1868, Irish, 1840, Lithograph, hand-colored, Sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 5/8in. (26.7 x 39.7cm)

The Union Club. An 1801 satire by James Gillray on the effects of the Acts of Union 1800 when the Parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland merged to form the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The ap

Thomas Rowlandson, British (1756-1827), Boney's Trial, Sentence, and Dying Speech, published 1815, hand-colored etching

Russia, The game of the spinning top, engraving

La belle assemblee in the saloon - English Opera House C.W.D., del., 1818.. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Indians of North America,1810-1820. , White people,1810-1820. , Ethnic stereotypes,1810-1820. , Intoxication,1810-1820.

La promenade au Jardin Turc. Medium: hand-colored aquatint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet after Jean Joseph Bastier de Bez.

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The Palais Royal - Gallery's walk Louis-Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832). Walk of the Gallery of the Royal Palace (or The Palais Royal - Gallery's Walk). Engraving (color aquatint).

ATENTADO FALLIDO DEL CURA MERINO A LA REINA ISABEL II - GRABADO SIGLO XIX. Location: MUSEO DEL ROMANTICISMO-GRABADOS. MADRID. SPAIN. CURA MERINO. ISABEL II REINA DE ESPAÑA (1830-1904).

The Long Room, Custom House July 1, 1808 Designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson. The Long Room, Custom House. Microcosm of London, pl. 28. Designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). July 1, 1808. Hand-colored etching and aquatint. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

Charles W. Sharpe, active 1858-1883, Orlando and the Wrestler - "As You Like It". Hand-colored engraving.

Scene images from The House of Temperate by Johann Nestroy costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Set of twelve with title page: The Necessary Qualifications of a Man of Fashion., Daniel Thomas Egerton, c.1800-1842, British, 1823, Aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 7 5/8 x 5 1/4in. (19.4 x 13.3cm)

Paris - Street Trade Coffee, ice cream shop and engravings shop, 1814-1830.

View of a masked ball, Georg Balthasar Probst, 1742 - 1801 print Numbered at the top right: 132. Numbered in the bottom left: 35. publisher: Augsburgprint maker: Germany paper. watercolor (paint) etching / brush masquerade, masked ball

Mina Lowry, Colored Lithograph New Year's Eve, c 1936 Colored Lithograph: New Year's Eve

Entrance to Paris by S. A. Marie Marie Caroline de Naples, Duchess de Berry, June 16, 1816, by the throne barrier. (TF)

Set of six with printed wrapper, and title-page: Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good One's, Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, 1823, Hand colored soft-ground etching, Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (24.8 x 34.9cm)

Netherlands, Rochussen, Charles, The Hague, Spain, Elias, Le Bal Costume given at the Palace of SAR Monseigneur the Prince of Orange on 26 February 1845, verso - stamped, Ballroom where eight couples dance the pavane. King William II looks on on the left. Part of the plate work about the costume ball held at the palace of the Prince of Orange (later King William III) in The Hague on 26 February 1845. In a cover with the printed description by le Comte de Guldenlew., print, prent, prints, prenten, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 305 mm, width 387 mm, Dutch, 1821-03-03 - 1863-04-27, print maker, printmaker, 1845 - 1845, paper, papier, lithografie (technique), met de handkleuren, 1814-08-01 - 1894-09-22, intermediary draughtsman

Quadrilles - Practising at Home, 1810 - 1820, Dublin, Publisher, M'Cleary i.e., McCleary, Quadrille (Dance), Ballroom dancing, 19th century, 1 print; etching, hand-colored, 25 x 36 cm, plate mark 23 x 35 cm

Unknown, The Ladies' Exchange, 1868, wood engraving on paper.

Lucas and Clarisse, Reinier Vinkeles (I), 1769 drawing Lucas and Clarisse; Lord and lady in fantasy costume enters a house. paper. ink. watercolor (paint). pencil brush / pen

France - 20th century - Telephone exchange. From the Petit Journal (1904)

The Breakfast. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 11/16 in. (27.2 × 37.3 cm). Publisher: Samuel William Fores (British, 1761-1838). Date: February 1, 1789. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The first May in Prater Gallerie Droller Scenen for the Theaterzeitung, st vol, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Black and White Engraving from an original painting by William Hogarth b1697, d1764 from A Rake's Progress; The Brothel Scene

Two groups of customers buying water to drink from a large ornate stand staffed by a man and a woman. Coloured lithograph by G. Dura.

Bartholomew Fair , Fairs, Crowds, City & town life. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

'Parisian Evening', c1845-1890. Artist: Henri de Montaut

Drinking party at the Christopher public house for a society of old Etonians that stole inn and shop signs. Signs for a pawn shop, milliners, optician, wineseller, fishmonger, cobbler, barber, etc. Oppidan's Museum, or Eton Court of Claims at the Christopher. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.

Six paintings, scenes colories of the good Parisian company, at the office of the newspaper Paris Modes, Rue Bergere, NUMERO 20 - The Lodge Lounge at the Opera Adolphe Porter / Account-Calix. Six paintings, colored scenes of the good Parisian company, at the office of the Paris Modes, Rue Berg�re, number 20 - The lodge living room at the Opera. Engraving.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I. Vote to confer the life Consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte. Colored engraving.

The children are ready to mount.. Illustrations. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection

Award ceremony, 1826-1829; Diather price and premium. Award ceremony to the winners of the Renewest competition, 1826-1829. Two men with horses within a closed grounds, the audience has gathered around it. Illustration at the back of a publication about the hard drivers held at the Maliebaan in Utrecht in the years 1826-1829.

Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, Modern Marriage A La Mode Sweet Fruits of the Third Honey Moon!!, c. 1796. Etching, hand-colored.

Edward Lloyd (c.1648-15 February 1713) ran the Lloyd's Coffee House in Lombard Street in the City of London which became a meeting place for merchants and shipowners. From the habit of their members to meet there, Lloyd's Coffee House spawned Lloyd's of London, Lloyd's Register, and Lloyd's List, but not Lloyds Bank.

Washington's Entry into New York Currier & Ives (American). , 1857. Hand-colored lithograph on wove paper, 10 1/2 x 14 3/4in. (26.7 x 37.5cm). American Art 1857

James Green, 1771-1834, British, The Terrace, Scarborough, undated. Graphite, watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink on slightly textured, thick, beige laid paper.

Netherlands, 's-Hertogenbosch, Lutkie & Cranenburg, De boeren hofstede, s Hertogenbosch, verso - stamped, Sheet with a large representation of a farmyard with farmers, farm wives and farm animals. Below the representation an eight-line verse in two columns. Numbered top left: No. 76., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 323 mm, width 391 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Nederlands, publisher, uitgever, 1848 - 1881, paper, papier, houtcut, kleuren, letterpress printing, boekdruk, print maker, prentmaker

Approach to Christmas 1800-1861 England. Aquatint, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper . George Hunt

The girl from the fairy world or the farmer as a millionaire by Raimund Gallerie Droller and interesting Scenen for the theater newspaper, st year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

At the masked ball (drawings of Mr. Crafty) / The corridor of the first. - We are words.

Dining Hall, Asylum, John Hill, 1770-1850, British, and Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, after Augustus Charles Pugin, 1762-1832, French, 1809, Aquatint, hand-colored

Italy, Bassano del Grappa, Remondini, family, Representation and perspective of a fencing school, View of a fencing school, verso center - stamped, In a room a number of men are practicing with weapons. Figures are sitting to the left and right, watching. Numbered lower left: P 2., print, prent, opticaprent, prints, prenten, opticaprenten, height 317 mm, width 429 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Italian, publisher, uitgever, 1700 - 1799, paper, papier, watercolor (paint), waterverf, etching, etchings, brush, Borstel, print maker, prentmaker

'An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog' by Oliver Goldsmith. The good man of Islington setting out for church. Illustration by Randolph Caldecott

"Trotting Cracks" at the Forge. Dimensions: image: 19 1/4 x 29 1/4 in. (48.9 x 74.3 cm)sheet: 23 13/16 x 33 9/16 in. (60.5 x 85.3 cm). Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857-1907). Date: 1868. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Spring in the City, 1858. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Wood engraving;

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