19th Century Social Commentary

Cartoons and illustrations reflecting social and political commentary of the 19th century, depicting themes of class struggle and political reform.

The Charter - a Common Scene: The Anti-Chartist idea of the House of Commons in 1943 if suffrage was enlarged. Cap of Liberty is attached to Speakers chair. 1843 cartoon by George Cruikshank. Chartism, a movement for social and political reform took its name from The Peoples Charter of 1838.

Strauss, Johann.

VINUESA, MatÕas (1770-1821). Assault ot the prison and killing of Vinuesa. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Museo de Historia.

The Prince Regent, his head irradiated, opens a bag containing cats; a cat with the head of Lord Eldon leaps on to a rat with the head of Lord Grey. Aquatint, 1811.

Babel Tower satirical illustration. A clip from a German magazine unknown

L'Angleterre, la Russie, l'Autriche...leur parfaite alliance. Dated: 1834. Dimensions: overall: 26.9 x 36.4 cm (10 9/16 x 14 5/16 in.). Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: EUGENE-HIPPOLYTE FOREST.

The sturdy of the Mariahilfer line in Vienna, On March , Franz Barth -, publisher

Excerpt Figure from, A dance of dead from , After, Alfred Rethel -, Drawer, Robert Reinick -, Auteur, Brockhaus, Printmaker, Georg Wigand -, publisher

The Prince of Orange at Toulouse, Brend'amour, Richard (1831-1915)

Sword fight between two men. Draughtsman: Alexander Ver Huell. Dating: c. 1854 - c. 1887. Measurements: h 200 mm × w 347 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

University College Hospital, Bloomsbury, London: Christmas scenes. Process print by J. Swain after H. Morehen.

Russia. Feast of Semik. Engraving by P. Perrichon. "Los héroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra" (The Heroes and the Grandeurs of the Earth). Volume VI. 1856. Author: Paul Perrichon. French engraver active from 1854 to 1870.

Newspaper excerpt with illustration, The unveiling of the Grillparzer monument, Unknown

Famine in Ireland, 1880: Front page of Harpers Weekly 28 February 1880, showing Ireland standing on the cliffs signalling for help from America, while a starving family huddles behind her.

Election Night Times Square. Date: 1906. Charcoal, lithographic crayon, conte crayon, and ink on paper. Museum: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN.

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879), Enfoncé Lafayette! Attrappe mon vieux!, 1834, lithograph

Second Event of June 20, 1789 - Oath of the deputies at the game of palm Jean-Fran�ois Janinet (1752-1814). "Second event of June 20, 1789 - Oath of members of the Paume game". Engraving.

Titus Oates (1649-1705) in the pillory as a punishment for perjury (1685). Oates was the inventor of the Popish Plot, a supposed Roman Catholic conspiracy to kill Charles II. On his false evidence up to 15 people were executed and many other imprisoned under suspicion. Engraving.

Interesting scene (An), on board an East Indiaman : Showing the effects of a heavy lurch - after dinner , Ships, Eating & drinking, Passengers, East India Company. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Prints and Drawings

MANIFESTACION DEL EJERCITO DE SALVACION. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

A man holding a letter stands next to a carriage containing three figures. Behind the man are soldiers with bayonets. In the foreground a boy and an old woman. On the roof of the carriage a dog barks. Bottom right: p. 196. Man with a letter during a hold-up of a coach The postal wagon was surrounded by several armed soldiers,. , print maker: Philippus Velijn, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: A. Elink Sterk jr., (mentioned on object), Netherlands, 1797 - 1836, paper, etching, h 224 mm × w 153 mm

Merson, Luc-Olivier (n.1846-05-21-D.1920-11-14), "that a priest and a philosopher are two", Illustration for the title thumbnail of chapter II of the book seventh (dummy title ), 1888. Pen and ink wash with gouache enhancement on paper. Houses of Victor Hugo Paris - Guernsey.

Caricature on the escape of Mayor Czapka and in the background Metternich in March , Unknown

A dancer who claims to have preserved the great tradition of VESTRI, plate 12 from Croquis Dramatiques. Honoré Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1857. Dimensions: 225 × 260 mm (image); 275 × 356 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

In Luxembourg (registered title) | Basin in Luxembourg, 1891 (dummy title)

El picador Calderon. Bullfighter in the crowd before a bullfight, Comunidad Valenciana. Journey to Spain, 1862 by Jean Charles Davillier (1823-1883) Drawing by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Clocks: casting a bell for the clock of the New Palace of Westminster. Wood engraving.

Allegorie op het tweede eeuwfeest van het Athenaeum Illustre te Amsterdam, 1832.Allegory at the second centenary (1632-1832) of the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam, celebrated 10-12 January 1832. Allegorical figures, including Apollo and Minerva, collected with laurel wreaths around an altar on which the coat of arms of Amsterdam. In the clouds. Father time. Design drawing for the engraved title page of a memorial book.

Last moments of Her Majesty / Louis XVIII. (IT)

News - NUMERO 297 - The Charivari - La Hary, the day of the Russian lords in Paris Cham (1819-1879). News, Number 297, Charivari - The Hedge, the day of the return of Russian lords in Paris. Lithography.

Event of October 6, 1789 - The king appearing at the balcony overlooking the marble courtyard Jean-Fran�ois Janinet (1752-1814). "Event of October 6, 1789 - The king appearing at the balcony overlooking the marble courtyard ...". Engraving.

Murder of the De Witt brothers, 1672 Image and true story Hoedanigh de Heeren, Mr. Johan de Witt, Raadt-Pensionaris van Hollant, and West-Vrieslant, as well as his Brother, Mr. Cornelis de Wit, aged Burgemeester der Stadt Dordrecht, and Ruwart van den Lande van Putten, were killed, in The Hague, August 20, 1672 (title on object), Sheet with four representations and descriptions of the murder of the De Witt brothers in The Hague on August 20, 1672. Above the capture and the murders, below the bodies are dragged to the scaffold and maimed. Among the performances, descriptions of the events in Dutch and French and an explanation of the images., Violent death, being killed, being mishandled and maltreated, seeking death (attempted death), attempted political murder, lynching, The Hague, Johan de Witt, Cornelis de Witt, Romeyn de Hooghe (attributed to), Northern Netherlands, 1672, paper, letterpress printing, h 536 mm × w 412 mm

Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, Three Men in () Seventeenth Century Dress, in a Street Sword Fight, Central Man Run Through, undated. Graphite and red chalk on thin, smooth, blued white, wove paper.

Oestreichs political situation, Caricature on the Revolution , Josef d, Lanzedelly Lanzedelli, Lancedelli -, Lithographer, Jakob Loder, Printer, Anton Paternos widow, publishing house

The Commissioners M Darly.. British Cartoon Prints Collection .

Comme quoi la gymnastique forme les membres... Dated: 1845. Medium: lithograph on newsprint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

L'Equilibre Européen (Actualités), from Le Charivari, 1866, Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879, 9 13/16 x 8 3/8 in. (24.92 x 21.27 cm) (sheet), Lithograph, France, 19th century

Moyen d'aller chercher les barbillons dans leur propre domicile, 1848, lithograph, Delteil, no. 1678, State ii/ii, Honoré Daumier (artist) French, 1808 - 1879

Unknown, Skating in New England, 1858, wood engraving on paper.

'Oh, what a fall was there!' , Chasing, Presidents, Cross dressing, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Picador Caught by a Bull, from The Bulls of Bordeaux. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828); printed by Cyprien Charles Marie Nicolas Gaulon (French, 1777-1858). Date: 1825. Dimensions: 313 x 413 mm (image); 385 x 508 mm (sheet). Lithographic crayon and scraper in black on buff wove paper. Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

cartoon in the period following the visit of François, Duke of Anjou to Queen Elizabeths court in 158182. caption: Not longe time since I sawe a cowe Did Flaunders represente Upon whose backe King Philup rode As being malecontnt. The Queene of England giving hay Wheareon the cow did feede, As one that was her greatest helpe In her distresse and neede. The Prince of Orange milkt the cowe And made his purse the payle. The cow did shyt in Monsieurs hand While he did hold her tayle.

The Railway Juggernaut of 1845: Railway-mad investors falling down in front of the juggernaut of railway speculation. Cartoon from Punch, London, 1845.

La difficulté d'arriver a une place. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

After Winslow Homer, Fire Works on the Night of the Fourth of July, published 1868 Fire-Works on the Night of the Fourth of July

Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.

Puck Magazine: The Four Rips, Puck Magazine

An unwelcome visitor-arrival of a shell in Paris(TI)

After Winslow Homer, Christmas Belles, published 1869 Christmas Belles

Color print by Henri-Patrice Dillon depicting the figure 'Mademoiselle Fifi', created around 1900.

Next to the wounded tambour lies his drum. Blood flows from his chest at the spot where his mother holds her left hand. The younger son takes his mother by the arm, Mother mourning near the battlefield for her mortally wounded son La douleur maternelle Lithographic sketches Croquis lithographiques , print maker: Hippolyte Bellangé, (mentioned on object), printer: François Jean Villain, (mentioned on object), publisher: Gihaut frères, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1823, paper, h 358 mm × w 270 mm

Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, The Escape, No. 2, undated. Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

M. de Montalembert marchant à l'assaut du Panthéon... , Politicians, Government officials, Montalembert, Charles Forbes, comte de, 1810-1870. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

France. Lyon. The Empress Eugenie de Montijo (1826-1920), wife of Napoleon III Bonaparte (1808-1873), weaves with a wooden loom in the Chamber of Commerce. Engraving. "L'Illustration, Journal Universel", 1860.

Relief of Lucknow by General Havelock, India, Asia, 1857 Copyright: xKenxGraham/DinodiaxPhotox

Honoré Daumier, Nayades de la Seine (Sea Nymphs of the Seine), 1847 Nayades de la Seine (Sea Nymphs of the Seine)

Between Rounds, small, second stone. Dated: 1923. Dimensions: image: 46.04 × 37.47 cm (18 1/8 × 14 3/4 in.). Medium: lithograph in black. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Bellows.

"Winter"--A Skating Scene. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910); published by Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Date: 1868. Dimensions: 228 x 346 mm (image); 278 x 406 mm (sheet). Wood engraving on ivory wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

España. Barcelona. El pueblo de Barcelona quemando los retratos de los reyes borbónicos en 1868. Grabado de época.

Allegory of French patriotic emblems, 1870. Coloured print published at the time of the Franco-Prussian War. From a private collection.

st, Stubenring - Radetzkydenkmal, relief detail, postcard, Wolf, United Kunstanstalten Vienna, producer

Christmas Belles Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). , 1869. Wood engraving, Sheet: 9 3/16 x 13 7/8 in. (23.3 x 35.2 cm). Regarded as one of the great American Realists of the nineteenth century, Winslow Homer is known primarily for his large body of works in oil and watercolor. However, he also had an early career as a freelance illustrator, making drawings for wood engravings that were reproduced in mass-circulation periodicals such as Harpers Weekly. In 1998, the Brooklyn Museum received a generous gift of more than 250 wood-engraved illustrations by Homer from Harvey Isbitts. This image was not specifically related to a text except for a passing mention in the New Years editorial expressing the hope that “Jack Frost” would “return by Twelfth Night, and the ‘Christmas Belles shall yet skim the moonlit snow to the dance and the yellow glass of mulled wine.” Here a friendly race seems to take place. Speed is implied by the way that Homer has excluded the horse except for a tellta

España. Catalunya. Tumultos en Barcelona en 1898 por la pérdida de las colonias. Grabado de época.

Left, a man suffers the "torture of water"; left, a man tied to a rack has his armpits and the soles of his feet scorched by candles. Etching.

Constitutional Club, Dent, William, active 1741-1780, artist, England, satire on the Westminster by-election of 1788 shows five men carving a fox on a table as William Pitt carries a coin-filled gravy boat inscribed Mint sauce, Constitutional restorative and King George III follows with a jug of Cheltenham water, Constitutional restorative

Imperial Theater / Gazelles ... / by Adolphe de Groot

Just the Difference, from Puck. Joseph Keppler; American, 1838-1894. Date: 1880. Dimensions: 292 x 470 mm (image); 307 x 475 mm (sheet). Color lithograph on newsprint. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

William Carey, British Orientalist, c1820 (c1885). Artist: Unknown

George Hunt, active 1820-1840, British, Foot Ball, c. 1825. Aquatint, hand-colored.

'January - Hard Frost', 19th century.Artist: George Cruikshank

John Howard bringing water and fresh air into a prison in order to improve the conditions for the inmates. Watercolour.

fine arts, Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de, (1746 - 1828), painting, ""the burial of the sardine"", 1812 - 1814, oil on canvas, 82,5 cm x 59 cm, Prado, Madrid,

Execution of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), wife of Louis XVI and Queen of France (1774-92). Engraving by G. Cruitshant. Colored.

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