Historical Political Cartoons

A collection of satirical cartoons depicting political and social themes, featuring humor, caricatures, and exaggerated characters in various comedic scenarios.

Cartoon - In the Driver's Seat. John Collins (1917-2007)

We enameled by immersion and blowing, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.

Cartoon - By the Shores of Gitche Gumee. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Walking the Plank. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Channel Swimming Under Difficulties. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Untitled. John Collins (1917-2007)

Fiscus scheert de toneelkunst. De Schapenscheerder in actie (title on object). Draughtsman: Patricq Kroon (signed by artist). Dating: 1900 - 1940. Place: Netherlands. Measurements: h 283 mm × w 230 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

To protect his mother, Danae, the mythical Greek hero Perseus accepted the task assigned him by a king named Polydictes of slaying the monster Medusa,

Cartoon on the defeat of the anti -revolutionaries in the elections, 1869, 1869 print Cartoon on the defeat of the anti -revolutionaries in the elections. The column of three people standing on each other (conservative, ultramontine and anti -revolutionary) is falling. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 24, 1869. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper voting, election

Crimes and Punishments XX, 777: Help! My cutlet's being stolen! , 1869. Félix Vallotton (French, 1865-1925). Color lithograph;

Illustration, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- Interesting method of overcoming the 'cold feet' difficulty before the introduction of foot warmers. Date: 1935

'Time smoking a picture', 1761. Artist: William Hogarth

Illustration showing Reconciliation between Britannia and her daughter America was a British cartoon of 1782

Cartoon - Will He Stop Now Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

Cartoon - Diogenes. John Collins (1917-2007)

A reporter, personified as Jasmin-Hector Reporter, political caricature, 1882, by Alphonse Hector Colomb pseudonym B. Moloch, a French caricaturist

The Bodger by Kukryniksy (Art Group) (20th century)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1975/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Caricature/ Poster and Graphic design

HªCATALUÑA - LA POBREZA OBRERA-1903. Author: FOIX MARIANO. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Cartoon - First Russian Victory Rostap (1866-1949)

Cartoon - W. T. K. Preston Rostap (1866-1949)

Cartoon - But Now He Has to Learn to Stand on His Own Feet. John Collins (1917-2007)

Political satire illustration depicting Madame Democracy Palmist, reading William Randolph Hearst's palm and speaking of the future. Dated 1931

Spring 1945 by Kukryniksy (Art Group) (20th century)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1945/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Caricature/ History,Poster and Graphic design

Au Cirque Henri-Gabriel Ibels (French, 1867-1936). Au Cirque, 1893. Lithograph in colors on wove paper, 19 3/8 x 10 1/4 in. (49.2 x 26 cm). European Art 1893

Cartoon - Lady Godiva Didn't Know the Half of It !. John Collins (1917-2007)

Engraving depicting a new use for gutta percha (rubber) based on assumption that air above the head was less polluted than that near the pavement and gutter. Dated 19th Century

Man with large cranium. Cartoon from Punch, 1912.

events Protestant Reformation anti-papal caricature the Pope-Donkey of Rome woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder 1523,

Original drawing for les Maîtres de l'Poster. Ibels, Henry Gabriel (1867-1936), Artist.

The Rival Ringmasters Rollin Kirby (American, 1875-1952). , 1922. Charcoal and gouache over graphite on paperboard, sheet: 19 15/16 x 14 15/16 in. (50.6 x 37.9 cm). American Art 1922

Black and White Illustration; Gruffydd, Son of Llewelyn, trying to escape from the tower, 1243

Germany's Katzenjammer. Illustration shows William II, German Emperor, suffering from over-indulgence, sitting in a chair with a block of ice on his head with his crown on top and his feet in a tub of hot water, in a bucket in the foreground are two empty bottles labeled Over-Speculation and Over-Confidence, on the floor is another empty bottle labeled Over-Capitalization. Uncle Sam is standing outside a window with a dismayed look on his face and about to fill a cup from a huge bottle labeled O

The Waning Moon I'm going down-hill fast, My bones are cold, it's raining, My money spent, my chances past, I'm waning, waning, waning! Date: circa 1910s

Cartoon - The Poet Premier Rostap (1866-1949)

The Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Lion acquire heart, brains and courage. Date: First published: 1900

Mr Punch bows to Agneta Frances Ramsay who sat, and passed with First Class Honours, the papers set, but could not receive a degree as Cambridge did not award them to women at this time. George du Maurier cartoon from 'Punch', London, 2 July 1887. Engraving

FishermanDiana Ong (b. 1940/Chinese-American)Ink & watercolorPrivate Collection

Cartoon depicting the Hot Line between the President of the United States and the Premier of the USSR was designed to allow direct communication at a moment's notice. At its inauguration on 31 August 1963, it was hailed as a major telecommunications achievement. President John F. Kennedy is asking Nikita Khrushchev to halt the Soviet advance because the US cannot get their forces across the Atlantic because of fog. Nikita Khrushchev is saying certainly, but in the meantime we'll bomb your airfields in Germany. Dated 20th century

Cover of the satirical magazine Gutiérrez. Caricature of José Pareja Yémenes (1888-1951), doctor and republican politician. Year 1934. Drawing of K-Hito. Author: Ricardo García López.

Soviet Russian cartoon satire on the state of industry under Leonid Brezhnev. 1970s

Open and closed furnace stoves, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.

Herr Professor', a vintage French postcard, c1900. The artist is unknown.

DAVID RICARDO ECONOMISTA BRITANICO - 1772-1823.

Paris Commune 26 March-28 May 1871. Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) French politician, one foot in his grave, asking Death to spare him until he has defeated the Commune. Cartoon by Moloch (1849-1909). France Politician Revolution

Pastel by Henri Boutet titled 'The Poster Man', c1900-1919. Part of a private collection.

Wasting Time, Charles Dana Gibson

Anti -War Day 1924, Patricq Kroon, 1924 drawing Macdonald, Herriot and Theunis, the prime ministers of Great Britain, France and Belgium, hit drums in an army camp on 12 September 1924. Design for a political cartoon. Netherlands paper. pencil. ink pen political caricatures and satires. anti-militarism, pacifism

Gallen-Kallela, Akseli, work, Kiekonlyönti, 9th chapter, 1906, marker, drawing, 20 cm x 31, 5 cm, Akseli Gallen-Kallela 1865 - 1931, a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

Caricatura de Benito Pérez Galdós (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1843-Madrid, 1920). Novelista, dramaturgo y cronista español. Uno de los principales representantes de la novela realista del siglo XIX y uno de los más importantes escritores en lengua española. Año 1911. Author: ROMÁN BONET SINTES "BON". Benito Pérez-Galdós.

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Pickles. Pickles investigates the contents of the coal scuttle. Date: 1909

Dibujo juvenil para cuaderno de pintura nacionalista. Dibujo de Laokin, 1937. Editado en Zaragoza.

Communist Lou de Visser, Patricq Kroon, 1925 - 1935 drawing The communist Louis de Visser walks through the thorn bushes. Design for a political cartoon. Netherlands paper. pencil. ink. paint (coating) pen political caricatures and satires Netherlands

Cartoon - Free Wheeling. John Collins (1917-2007)

Den Haag, Nijhoff, Martinus, Netherlands, Spanier & Zn, widow Elias, Schmidt Crans, Johan Michaël, The tax plans of the minister of finance: Session of 19 December 1882, Cartoon on the minister of finance, 1882, The Hague, Cartoon on Lynden van Sandenburg, the Minister of Finance as the magician Thaumathurgos, 1882. Plate published in the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 51, 1882., print, picture, cartoon, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 275 mm, width 215 mm, Dutch, 1830-04-30 - 1907-11-14, print maker, printmaker, 1882 - 1882, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1826-12-26 - 1894-09-24, publisher

Cartoon - "Ogo Pogo" or Jitters in B.C. Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

'Essence of Parliament', 1883. Artist: Harry Furniss

News / Bordering-le-Truand / or New Holy Hélène. / N ° 30

Illustration (1909), depicting the concept of a French Black African politician. In 1914 Blaise Diagne (1872 - 1934) a Senegalese-French political leader, was the first black African elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, He became the first to hold a position in the French government

Cartoon - Mother India. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - The Style-Setting. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - The Iceman Cometh. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Ottawa's Changing Styles. John Collins (1917-2007)

Occupants Joined in Friendship by Kukryniksy (Art Group) (20th century)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1941/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Caricature/ 44x36/ History,Poster and Graphic design

Caricature in L'Assiette du Beurre, 1906, depicting a political meeting

Cartoon - Paris in the Spring. John Collins (1917-2007)

Coloured illustration depicting Uncle Sam, Britannia and a very large man in front of the Kremlin.

Cartoon - Powerful and Unbeatable Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

Two Ministers. Draughtsman: Patricq Kroon (signed by artist). Dating: 1920 - 1930. Place: Netherlands. Measurements: h 252 mm × w 202 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Coloured illustration of a female peasant holding a basket full of tax receipts.

Cartoon - Uno Who's National Gallery. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Summer Replacements. John Collins (1917-2007)

Gladstone is welcomed home by a woman who could not cope with her four children any longer, representing the parliamentary constitutency of Midlothian; Disraeli as Lord Beaconsfield ploughs a field in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1879.

Whoopin' things up , Vomiting, Motion sickness, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Rochishin Chopping Off the Head of Nio 18th-19th century School of Katsushika Hokusai Japanese. Rochishin Chopping Off the Head of Nio 57290

Stan Cross - Family Cartoonist. March 16, 1950.

'Ausnahmegesetze' (emergency laws). Thomas Theodor Heine Caricature comparing Bismarck's inability to contain the social democracy and Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922, to contain the monarchists. Published in the German satirical magazine 'Simplicissimus', July 26, 1922. Engraving.

Portada de la publicación "Comedias". Caricatura de Manuel Linares-Rivas Astray-Caneda (1866-1938). Editorial siglo XX, Madrid. Años 1920. Author: Manuel Tovar Siles.

Caricature in L'Assiette du Beurre, 1906, depicting a rich exploitative factory owner on his way to hell as he enriches himself at the cost of poor workers

Engraving depicting Vincenzo Lunardi in the gondola of his first balloon. Vincenzo Lunardi (1754-1806) an Italian aeronaut and diplomat. Dated 19th century

The Prisoner (Der Gefangene) Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1939). The Prisoner (Der Gefangene), 1918. Woodcut with watercolor (hand-coloring) on wove paper, image: 25 × 19 3/4 in. (63.5 × 50.2 cm). Made in the aftermath of World War I, this woodcut of a man behind bars, perhaps a prisoner of war, evokes physical and psychic trauma. Christian Rohlfss bold, jagged lines emphasize the mans emaciated body and the force with which he grips the bars. Rohlfs died one year after the infamous Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, in which modern works, including his own, were exhibited by the Nazis to defame and mock the art and artists. European Art 1918

Blank space by Kukryniksy (Art Group) (20th century)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1960/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Caricature/ Poster and Graphic design

Leaflet from the scenes satirical; around 1908 (1903-00-00-1912-00-00);Semerau-Siemianowski, Władysław (1849-1938), Semerau-Siemianowski, Władysław (1849-1938)-collection, gift (provenance), occasional prints, Islamic art, Turkish art, leaflets

Caricature of King Victor Emmanuel II Thomas Nast (American, 1840-1902). , 1866. Oil on canvas, 47 15/16 x 35 13/16 in. (121.8 x 91 cm). American Art 1866

Miguel Delibes ilustrador. Los dibujos de "El camino".

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Jack and Jill. Within four miles of London, the friends see the sun rising over St Paul's Cathedral. Date: 1914

Caricatura de Juan Vázquez de Mella Fanjul (Cangas de Onís, Asturias, 1861-Madrid, 1928), político tradicionalista, escritor y filósofo católico español que abrazó la causa del carlismo. Año 1911. Author: ROMÁN BONET SINTES "BON".

Cartoon - About Time Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

The Michelin Man sits atop Olympia and makes sure all the exhibits for the 1913 motor show are equipped with the best tyres. Date: 1913

Punch's satirical view of the fin-de-siecle publishing phenomenon, The Yellow Book, whose art editor was Aubrey Beardsley caricatured here. The publisher of The Yellow Book was The Bodley Head (here labelled The Bogey Head) owned by John Lane and Elkin Mathews. Date: 1895

Cartoon - The Continuing Style. John Collins (1917-2007)

Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), poeta, dramaturgo y novelista romántico francés. Caricatura. Grabado de 1878.

Cartoon on Napoleon I (1769-1821). Engraving.

Caricatura de Salvador Rueda Santos (Macharaviaya (caserío de Benaque), Málaga, 1857- Málaga, 1933). Periodista y poeta español. Fue precursor español del Modernismo. Año 1911. Author: ROMÁN BONET SINTES "BON".

Senate Hearing. William Gropper (1897-1977). Oil on canvas. 31.2 x 101.4cm

Nieuwjaarswens van Colijn. Nieuwjaarswensch van Colijn (title on object). Draughtsman: Patricq Kroon (signed by artist). Dating: 1900 - 1935. Place: Netherlands. Measurements: h 210 mm × w 250 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Lluís Millet Pagés (1867-1941). Músico, fundador del Orfeó Català. Dibujo de 1934.

'The Memorial Panel to Sir Henry Birkin at Brooklands', 1937. Artist: Gordon Crosby.

Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, political caricature, 1882, by Alphonse Hector Colomb pseudonym B. Moloch, a French caricaturist

Wall panting, Village of Saint Adele, Province of Quebec, Canada,street art, grafitti, North America

Garden CAL "Sturm's Eck

Portada del semanario ilustrado El Gran Bufón, editado en Madrid, diciembre de 1912. Portada dedicada a la obra Don Quijote de la Mancha, de Miguel de Carvantes Saavedra.

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