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A collection of 19th-century caricatures illustrating political satire, societal critiques, and humorous depictions of individuals in various roles.

Bad Posture of a Sculpture in the Midst of Paintings, by Honore Daumier, (1808-1879)
Bad Posture of a Sculpture in the Midst of Paintings, by Honore Daumier, (1808-1879)
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'Admiral of the Time', 1897. Creator: John Leech.Honoré Daumier, Ce qu'on appelle le Royaume Uni, 1866 Ce qu'on appelle le Royaume-UniNews / 377 / - But go, check! / - It's more expensive ; I have a heart disease, it advances me.fine arts, Dore, Gustave (1832 - 1883), illustration, coloured, from ""Die wunderbaren Reisen des Freiherrn von Munchhausen"" (The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen), by Gottfried August Buerger (1747 - 1794), private collection,El Periquillo Sarniento, Vol. 1, opp. p. 182, pl. 14. Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín, 1776-1827. text. Illustrations. 1842. Rare Book Division. Spanish American fictionLe perroquet de M. Guizot. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.Slavery. Freedom. British Cartoon Prints Collection .ROBO EN UNA JOYERIA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.Aspect de Paris, depuis qu'on a joué...la bourse. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). LithographsAlice with Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Illustration by Sir John Tenniel, 1820-1914. From the book ""Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There"" by Lewis Carroll. Published London 1912.Cartoon - Hays is No Foreigner Rostap (1866-1949)Over Weight - or the Sinking Fund - or the Downfall of Faro, Richard Newton, 1777-1798, British, 1797, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 9 7/8 x 14 1/8in. (25.1 x 35.9cm)Los desastres de la guerra, 1810 -1814, Francisco de Goya, primera impresión de 1863, realizada por la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid, convento de San Francisco, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain.Cartoon commenting on the plea for a block signalling system to be made compulsory on British railways. Illustrated by John Tenniel (1820-1914) an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist. Dated 19th centuryVice-Presidential Possibilities III, Too Busy to Talk Politics, Harper's Weekly Supplement, Drawn by W.A. Rogers, March 31, 1900Spotprent over de British Museum, Robert Seymour (possibly), 1833 print Cartoon in which the Sir Henry Ellis, main librarian of the British Museum is accused by a parliamentary committee under William Cobbett of Nepotism, June 1833. paper committee members, board members. Lower House, Parliament, Chamber. political caricatures and satiresChé cha une belle chaudronnerie!.... Honoré Daumier (France, Marseilles, 1808-1879). France, 1865. Prints; lithographs. LithographA reception at the AcademyThe modern colossus , Presidential elections, Politicians, Abolition movement, Eagles, Whig Party U.S., Democratic Party U.S., Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862, Butler, William Orlando, 1791-1880, Calhoun, John C. John Caldwell, 1782-1850, Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866Trop de politesse. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.News // God protects France / (1)Untitled (from "The Looking Glass", Vol. I, No. I) William Heath (British, 1795-1840). Untitled (from "The Looking Glass", Vol. I, No. I), January 1, 1830. Etching, Sheet: 16 3/16 x 10 in. (41.1 x 25.4 cm). European Art January 1, 1830On for prenumeration against the enemies of freedom, Celebrities play the flea march for the prenumeration of flea caricature from the flea , Wessely, caricaturistCalveras de Gatas y Garbandceras Jose Guadelupe Posada (Mexican, 1852-1913). Calveras de Gatas y Garbandceras. Relief engraving on type metal, 4 1/2 x 7 in. (11.4 x 17.8 cm). Arts of the AmericasCasse-Cou!...Casse-Cou!!!. Cham (Count Amédée-Charles-Henry de Noé) (France, Paris, 1819-1879). France, 1859. Prints; lithographs. LithographSur la scène/Dans les coulisses. Honoré Daumier (France, Marseilles, 1808-1879). France, 1853. Prints; lithographs. LithographPeople's anger in Alkmaar during the Cheese and Broodoproer, 1492. Draughtsman: Jacobus Buys. Dating: 1783 - 1785. Measurements: h 150 mm × w 90 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Wit's Last Stake, or the Cobbling Voters and Abject Canvassers. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 1/4 in. (26.3 × 36.2 cm). Subject: Charles James Fox (British, 1749-1806); Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (British, Wimbledon, Surrey 1757-1806 Devonshire). Date: April 22, 1784. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.News / 84 / Refreshments at the next reviews of SATORY (IT)La Petite Angelina and Miss C. Thompson at the Boston Museum Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). , 1859. Wood engraving, image:6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. (17.5 x 11.4 cm);. American Art 1859Brian Boru in top hat and cockle-picker Peg OShambles crashing a two-horse carriage in a Belfast street, 1822. Hawkers knocked on the street, urchins eating potatoes, a man with shillelagh. Brian Borus Entrance into Belfast. Sign for Watsons Carver & Gilder shop. Handcoloured engraving from Pierce Egans Real Life in Ireland, or the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru Esq., and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn ODogherty, published by William Evans, London, 1829.The Revolver'The Way of the Wind',1878.Artist: SwainThe rehabilitation of the Democratic Party , Tailoring, Presidents, Cabinet officers, Democratic Party U.S., Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908, Bayard, Thomas F. Thomas Francis, 1828-1898, Lamar, L. Q. C. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, 1825-1893, Whitney, William C. William Collins, 1841-1904, Manning, Daniel, 1831-1887, Garland, A. H. Augustus Hill, 1832-1899Honoré Daumier, Faut pas s'plaindre de c'temps la, 1864 Faut pas s'plaindre de c'temps-la...Sketch of the day. (3) / This good city of Paris is worth a mass ....Graphic by Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) a British artist and illustrator. Dated 19th CenturyThe Hague, Nijhoff, Martinus, Arnhem, Thieme, Dirk Anthonie, Netherlands, Spanier & Zn, widow Elias, Limburg Brouwer, Petrus Abraham Samuel van, Schmidt Crans, Johan Michaël, Aan devrucht kemt men den boom, Cartoon on the riots during the Brielse festivities, 1872, Cartoon on some riots in some North Brabant cities during the Brielse festivities in April 1872. A group of Roman Catholic clergy cheers the riots standing by an anti-Orangist banner. Plate published in the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 15, 1872., print, picture, cartoon, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 275 mm, width 215 mm, Dutch, 1830-04-30 - 1907-11-14, print maker, printmaker, 1872 - 1872, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), Work conception, 1829-11-15 - 1873-02-13, after a design by, printer, Publication (Event), Publication, 1830 - 1879, publisher, 1826-12-26 - 1894-09-24Quelle nouvelle dans le journal...., from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, August 5, 1859 August 5, 1859 Honoré Daumier. Quelle nouvelle dans le journal...., from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, August 5, 1859. Croquis d'Été. Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois). August 5, 1859. Lithograph on newsprint; second state (Delteil). Aaron Martinet (French, 1762-1841). PrintsSay-so Guillaume ...The mischief of Methodism , Clergy, Conversation. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and DrawingsA Bad Case of Consumption, from Puck 1890 United States. Color lithograph on newsprint . Joseph KepplerTrue Reform of Parliament. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1809. Dimensions: 288 × 404 mm (image); 300 × 415 mm (plate); 315 × 435 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, FLORENCIA, USA.Honoré Daumier, Nadar élevant la Photographie à la hauteur de l'Art, 1862 Nadar élevant la Photographie à la hauteur de l'ArtA shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1865.Spectacle with triton on a giant fish; entry from Ferdinand in Ghent in 1635 (no. 34); Pontus Quoque Serviet Illi; Triton in Balaen Ferdinando occurrit; in Delphinis Ariones. Spectacle with Ferdinand as Triton on a giant fish (or Arion on the dolphin). Two smaller fish with putti on either side. Stellage prepared on a square in Ghent. In the background houses and masts with burning pekons. Leaf No. 34 In a set of 42 plates that illustrate the publication of the arrival of the Cardinal Infant Ferdinand in Austria in Ghent on January 28, 1635 as the new governor for the Spanish Netherlands.George Cruikshank, The Death of Property Tax!!!, 1816 The Death of Property Tax!!!Looking Backward, from Puck 1858-1894 United States. Color lithograph on newsprint . Joseph KepplerA word of comfort, Dent, William, active 1783-1793, en sanguine engraving 1790, a British satire on the efforts of Charles James Fox to get the Test and Corporation Acts repealed. Joseph Priestley, preaching, speaks for the concerns of the clergy, stating their opposition to Reynard and Associates (Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John Townshend, and another man, possibly William Windham). Fox asks, Pray, Doctor is there such a thing as a Devil to which Priestley responds with a resounding no. TThe Great American Statesman, Puck. Louis Dalrymple; American, 1865-1905. Date: 1883. Dimensions: 353 x 267 mm. Color lithograph on newsprint. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.Set-to between the champion old tip & the swell Dutcheman of Kinderhook' Satire on the presidential campaign of 1836, portraying the contest as a boxing match between Democratic candidate Martin Van Buren and Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. The artist clearly favours Harrison. The work is a variation on an 1834 cartoon which uses the boxing match as a metaphor for the struggle between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle, president of the Bank of the United States.Caving In, or a Rebel "Deeply Humiliated" 1864-65 After Benjamin Henry Day Jr.. Caving In, or a Rebel "Deeply Humiliated". After Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (American, New York 1838-1916 Summit, New Jersey). 1864-65. Lithograph. Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857-1907). Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809-1865 Washington, D.C.). PrintsUn cauchemar d'un...bourgeois de la Place St Georges , Politicians, Historians, Presidents, Thiers, Adolphe, 1797-1877. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs"It was too much like hitting a man when he is down." Harry Treverton .... Barker, Lady (Mary Anne), 1831-1911. Covers (Illustration). 1887-12-10. General Research Division. Children's literature, Seals (Animals), Aquatic animal welfare, Abusive menThe father of the family takeing sic his eldest boy from school, England : Publisher not named, between 1813 and 1815, 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 35 x 25 cm (plate), Print shows Napoleon being taken away from school by the devil ascending into the sky.Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Isidore Désiré Régnier (19th century), engraver. "Declaration of love." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101600-24 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engravingUne réception. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). LithographsUn cauchemar d'un ...Bourgeois de la Place St. Georges. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.Cartoon from Puck. Joseph Keppler (Austria, Vienna, active United States, 1838-1894)Bernhard Gillam (United States, 1856-1896). United States, 1880-1889. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph"When McKinley is President", Political Cartoon, Puck Magazine, Artwork by John S. Pugh, Published by Keppler & Schwartzmann, April 29, 1896Feeding the Animals - A Change of Diet!. Artist: John Doyle (Irish, Dublin 1797-1868 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 5/8 in. (30.2 × 44.7 cm). Lithographer: Alfred Ducôte (British, active 1830-40). Publisher: Thomas McLean (British, active London 1788-1885). Series/Portfolio: HB Sketches, No. 573. Subject: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (British, 1784-1865); Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle (British, 1790-1866); William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (British, London 1779-1848 Hertfordshire); Daniel O'Connell (Irish, Cahirciveen, Kerry 1775-1847 Genoa); Queen Victoria (British, London 1819-1901 Isle of Wight); Lord John Russell (British, 1792-1878); Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (British, Whitby, Yorkshire 1797-1863 London); Charles Edward Poulett Thomson, Baron Sydenham (British, 1799-1841); Henry Richard Fox Vassall, 3rd Baron Holland (British, 1773-1840); Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (British, 1780-1863); AssociatedPRIMERA REPUBLICA 1873-1874. ESPAÑA. " LA JUSTICIA RECRIMINA AL PRESIDENTE ESTANISLAO FIGUERAS LOS EXCESOS COMETIDOS ". REVISTA LA FLACA , BARCELONA 1873.Sign of times. (IT)A man is drawing a cart along the road as other people perform other activities also called drawing. Etching by George Cruikshank.Congressional Scales, a True Balance, Satire on U.S. President Zachary Taylor's attempts to Balance Southern and Northern Interests on the Question of Slavery, Lithograph, Nathaniel Currier, 1850Why don't you take it , Political satire, American, 19th century, Pictorial works, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889, Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866THE NEW YORK TAMMANY FRAUDSThe Infant Hercules. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 12 5/8 in. (22.1 × 32.1 cm). Published in: London. Publisher: William Humphrey (British, 1742-before 1814). Subject: Charles James Fox (British, 1749-1806); Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (British, 1732-1792); William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (British, 1708-1778). Date: February 3, 1784.In 1783, at the age of twenty-four, William Pitt became the youngest person ever to head the British government. King George III, who had become fed up with the machinations of a Whig coalition led by Charles James Fox and Frederick Lord North, finally prevailed upon Pitt to accept the premiership. When Rowlandson cast Pitt as the infant Hercules he echoed popular opinion, which saw the youthful minister as a refreshing change from his corrupt, self-serving predecessors. Like the classical hero, Pitt displays amazing strength as he strangles serpents determined to dispatch him. The snaThe Fall of Dagon - or Rare News for Leaden-Hall Street, James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1784, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 7 3/8 x 11 5/16in. (18.7 x 28.7cm)'Whines from the Wood', 1880. Artist: Montagu BlatchfordVERAZZI, Baldassare (1819-1886). Fight at Palazzo Litta. Episode of the 'Cinque Giornate' (Five Journeys) in Milan (March 18-22, 1848). Oil on canvas. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan. Risorgimento Museum.Cartoon - King William, The Scorcher Rostap (1866-1949)Souvenir du grand festival des orphéonistes, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, March 28, 1859 March 28, 1859 Honoré Daumier. Souvenir du grand festival des orphéonistes, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, March 28, 1859. Actualités. Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois). March 28, 1859. Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil). Aaron Martinet (French, 1762-1841). PrintsThis 1923 illustration oshowsf Rudolf Henneberg's painting "Lure of Pan Germanism." The Pan-German movement had coalesced in the 1890s among German critics of imperial timidity, and it had gained substantial influence by the eve of World War I. It urged, among other things, the uniting of all ethnic Germans, regardless of existing state borders; reduction of "un-German" (Slav, Catholic, Jewish) cultural influence; and creation of "lebensraum" for Germany by colonial annexation. Rudolf Henneberg was a German painter (1826-1876).The Great Exhibition of1860. Artist, attributed to: Louis Maurer, American, 1832-1932 Publisher: Currier & Ives, American, active 1834-1907Free trade represented as a woman: half is a skeleton being cursed by unemployed workers; half is a beautiful young woman who is giving gold to importers of foreign goods. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 21 November 1886.Honoré Daumier, Avis aux amateurs, 1871 Avis aux amateursDistillers looking into their own business , Bodily functions, Stills Distilleries, Barrels. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and DrawingsLondon, Fores, Samuel W., England, Heath, Henry, The Struggle. or a long Pull, a strong Pull, and a Pull - All' togather, Cartoon on the tensions in the British cabinet between the Catholics and the Protestants, 1827, Cartoon on the tensions in the British cabinet between the Catholics and the Protestants in March 1827. The representatives of both parties, respectively, Canning and Eldon, are seated rowing a boat together that symbolizes the kingdom (Cabinet cock boat), and attempt to row in opposite directions., cartoon, English cartoons, height 247 mm, width 347 mm, English, print maker, printmaker, 1827-03-16 - 1827-03-16, paper, etching, etchings, hand coloring, Publication (Event), Publication, 1761 - 1838, publisherSlugged Out, 'Better Luck Next Time'. King Chester Arthur's Knightcaps of the Round Table - Political Cartoon showing Chester Arthur and cabinet members, wearing nightcaps, sleeping around table, on which are papers, "no ill-will to anyone," "we need no Navy," "Indians provided for till summer," etc. Circa 1882Sevres Vase presented to H.R.H. Prince Albert by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, 1856. Porcelain vase '...designed to commemorate the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park, in 1851 and as testimony of the friendship between England and France...It is of spherical form, of pure Grecian character. The colour of the ground is deep amaranth, relieved with light and graceful ornaments in gold. In the centre are painted emblematical figures of the principal nations of the world submitting the produce of human intelligence to three female genii seated upon a throne, allegorical of Justice,'Symptoms of Being Amused', 1822.Artist: Henry Thomas AlkenPrint, "Democracy, or a Sketch o; James Gillray (1756 - 1815); Published by Heidi Humphrey; Dedicatee: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821); England; etching support: white wove paper laid down on beige wove paper; 13 x 11.3 cm (5 1/8 x 4 7/16 in.) Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)The King of Hearts arguing with the Executioner Illustration by John Tenniel from the book Alices's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published 1891Ferdinand Ward, is depicted as 'Little Napoleon of Wall Street'. The rogue financier lured Buck Grant, son of former President Ulysses Grant, into a business partnership. He used the former President Ulysses Grant's prestige to lure wealthy clients into a Ponzi scheme, causing the loss of their money during the 1884 financial downturn. Ward sit on a rock, 'Ludlow Street, St. Helena' (BSLOC_2018_10_136)Puck Magazine: Discrimination, Puck Magazine'The New Captain', 1885. Artist: Joseph Swain Date: Cartoon showing John Bull (Great Britain) being taken for a ride by the other European powers, June 1795. On the left he is robbed by the Habsburg Emperor Francis II and the Prussian hussar, on the right he receives a kick on the behind from the Frenchman while the Dutchman blows tobacco smoke in his face. On the left is William Pitt encouraging the parties, John Bull up for grabs by the European powers, 1795 Blindmans-Buff-or-Too Many for John Bull , print maker: James Gillray, publisher: Hannah Humphrey, (mentioned on object), London, 12-Jun-1795, paper, etching, h 250 mm × w 353 mmSilence in this court!, LegalByron Combination.. Byron Combination.Political "Blondins" Crossing Salt River 1860 Currier & Ives. Political "Blondins" Crossing Salt River. 1860. Lithograph. Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857-1907). Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809-1865 Washington, D.C.). PrintsComme Sisyphe Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879). Comme Sisyphe, February 25, 1869. Lithograph on newsprint, Sheet: 16 15/16 x 11 5/8 in. (43 x 29.5 cm). European Art February 25, 1869'The Next Novelty', 1858. Artist: UnknownThe old evolutionary argument over Nature or Nurture. It would be a brave person who came to a conclusion on this evidence. George du Maurier cartoon from 'Punch', London, 16 July 1887