Political Caricatures

Humorous and satirical prints depicting historical political events and figures, featuring exaggerated expressions and dynamic scenes reflecting societal commentary.

Large jump from George reassured by Pitt Anonymous / at Basset. "Great jump from George reassured by Pitt". Water-Strong colored, 1803.

Etching, aquatint, hand-coloured engraving entitled 'The Hand-writing upon the wall' by James Gillray (1756-1815). Napoleon, Josephine, French soldiers and women seated at a feast with dishes 'Bank of England', 'St. James,' 'Tower of London,' and 'Roast Beef of old England.' Napoleon looks in horror at hand of Jehovah pointing to words in sky: 'Mene Mene, tekel upharsin.'

News / Suzanne injured, or coveted France.

Men Remove Books from the Library Du Roi, Anonymous, c. 1775 - c. 1800 print Six men with enterhaaken remove books from the shelves in the library Du Roi. Three of them wear scissors around their waist and one of them carries a flag with scissors and the text: "Ils nous Ontobe, Derobons Nos Ayeux!" In the middle, a clergyman pulls off a staircase with his enterhaak from the shelf. In addition to him, a man with geographical works under his arm with his enterhaak destroys a sky. On the right in the foreground, a man is busy overwriting works by Pietro Metastasio. In the background, two men fight for a book entitled 'Vaudeville'. paper etching public library. plunder of the arts. bookshelves. armillary sphere, skeleton celestial globe

John Bull's Dilemna - It is hard to disturb him - He's such a good customer - Political cartoon 1895

Chinese trades, Qing dynasty, 1800s. Kite seller 1, toy seller and boys playing Jianzi with a shuttlecock 2, paper makers preparing bamboo 3, pork butcher 4, varnish collectors 5, and trained monkeys harvesting tea 6. Copied from illustrations by Antoine Cardon in Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's La Chine en miniature, 1811. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815.

News. / The people understand you! ... See his strength ...

Coffee house with two fighting gentlemen,. Coffee house with two fighting gentlemen, one with a billiard cage and the other with a long German pipe.

A Long Pull A Strong Pull and a Pull Altogether November 25, 1813 Thomas Rowlandson Representations of six of the Allies at left pull seven Dutch ships towards them with ropes. Napoleon and Joseph make frantic gestures on an island behind the Dutch fleet at right. Napoleon exclaims: "Oh Brother JoeI'm all Fire, My Passion eats me upSuch unlooked for Storms of ills fall on meIt beats down all my cunning, I cannot bear itMy ears are fill'd with Noise my Eyes grow dimAnd feeble shakings seize every Limb."Joseph stands behind, his crown at his feet, and says: "Oh Brother Nap Brother Nap we shant be left with half a Crown apiece". A Long Pull A Strong Pull and a Pull Altogether. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). November 25, 1813. Hand-colored etching. Thomas Tegg (British, 1776-1846). Prints

The kiss of Judas Anonymous. The kiss of Judas. Water-loud colored. 1814.

Plate 37, from "World in Miniature" 1816 Thomas Rowlandson One of forty prints from Rowlandson's "World in Miniature; Consisting of Groups of Figures, for the Illustration of Landscape Scenery.". Plate 37, from "World in Miniature". "World in Miniature". Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). 1816. Hand-colored etching. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.

Nègres scieurs de long.. Debret, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). Prints, Illustrations. 1834 - 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Brazil , Social life and customs, Saws, Blacks , Brazil, Carpentry

Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Dit, 1803-1847). "The metamorphoses of the day. Fleurus so, sapper! Allete good". Colored lithography, 1829. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 34930-3 Itinerant, trading, lithography colored, merchant, military, morality, personification, street, caricature

A Bad Case of Consumption, from Puck. Joseph Keppler; American, 1838-1894. Date: 1890. Dimensions: 345 x 505 mm. Color lithograph on newsprint. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

De la Parade de Quarte au Dehors des Armes sur le Coup de Quarte hors des Armes, James Gwin, 1700-1769, 1763, Gray wash, graphite, pen and gray ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream, laid paper, mounted on, moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, Contemporary drawn border: 10 7/8 × 16 inches (27.6 × 40.6 cm) and Sheet: 9 3/8 × 15 1/16 inches (23.8 × 38.3 cm)

Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of their task-masters the excise officers. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Pitt, William,1759-1806. , Rose, George,1744-1818. , Thurlow, Edward Thurlow,Baron,1731-1806. , France,History,Revolution, 1789-1799. , Britannia (Symbolic character),1790. , Taxes,Great Britain,1790. , Cradles,1790. , Politics & government,Great Britain,1790.

The Union January 1, 1801 Thomas Rowlandson. The Union. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). January 1, 1801. Hand-colored etching. Prints

The Advocate Battle for Carltheater,

() William Dent, active 1784-1793, The Imperial Quixote and Generalissimo Sancho's Grand, Joyfull and Triumphant return to Germany after the Conquest of France, 1792. Etching with watercolor on laid paper.

Continuation de l'amélioration des chevaux.... Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Le Meravigliose Forze.... 1701 - 1800. Anonymous. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

The Fair on the Thames, February 4, 1814, Luke Clennell, 1781-1840, British, and unknown artist, (Reeve), after Luke Clennell, 1781-1840, British, 1814, Aquatint, hand-colored

A gouty man who is drinking wine and playing the cello; the pain is represented by a devil burning his foot. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.

Plate 5 depicting the trades of Rome, here including vendors of pomegranites, bowls, onions 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 depicting the trades of Rome, here including vendors of pomegranites, bowls, onions 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

Erin go bray,engraving 1799, an Irish field officer on his charger, or an Irishman holding a lance, sitting on a donkey which is braying O how I long for a union with the English Bull, ay by my soul or the English Cow, or the English any thing! To the Devil with all the Priests and Proctors they have not left us a Potatoe between us.

When the old woman with the child receives a handout from the soldier, she says God will bless him, Soldier gives a poor woman some money Dieu vous b, print maker: Hippolyte Bellangé, (mentioned on object), printer: François Jean Villain, (mentioned on object), publisher: Gihaut frères, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1829, paper, h 325 mm - w 244 mm

The skeleton of Death pushes a ladder away from a wall killing a gallant suitor as he tries to elope with a beauty. The girl's father shoots a musket at the falling man. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.

Cabinet des Modes ou les modes nouvelles, 1 Mai 1786, pl. II, A.B. Duhamel, After Pugin, 1786 carriage Paris paper engraving carriage Paris paper engraving

The capital punishment of the cord. Mason, George Henry. Wilson, William, active 1811-1839. Prints, Illustrations. 1804. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Punishment & torture, Criminal justice, Administration of, Clothing & dress, Manners & customs, China

The Times - or a View of the Old House in Little Brittain - with Nobody Giving to Hannover, James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1784, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 8 1/8 x 12 3/4in. (20.6 x 32.4cm)

The alpine king and the misanthropy , magic pantomime according to Raimund von Occioni , Rappelkopfs Rescue by the Alpine King Theatrical Image Gallery for the Theaterzeitung, Jg, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

The Tree of Liberty, James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, 1797, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 12 7/8 x 9 5/16in. (32.7 x 23.7cm)

Cabinet of Modes or New Modes, May 1, 1786, PL. II. rijtuig

medicine ""The Rejuvenating Cure"" woodcut coloured German school 1594,

Natives on Obi island in an outrigger canoe collecting shells. The inhabitants of the island of Pulau Obi, Indonesia, are mostly escaped slaves from Ternate, Maluku Islands. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.

The Raft in Danger of the Republican disappoointed, Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, 1798, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 9 3/8 x 26 1/2in. (23.8 x 67.3cm)

Hunting, Shooting, etc. set of six: 6. 'For happy he who tops the wheeling chace', Samuel Howitt, 1756-1822, British, 1794, Aquatint, hand-coloreds with aquatinted borders, Sheet: 9 3/4 x 12 1/4in. (24.8 x 31.1cm)

Print made by James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing, 1805. Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

unknown artist, ( G. L. ), Prospero on the Enchanted Island, 1798. Etching & aquatint, hand-colored.

Napoleon Bonaparte watching the Fire of Moscow after the Battle of Borodino, 1812. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815.

Luxury , Wheeled chairs, Servants. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

LITOGRAFIA-TAUROMAQUIA-ENTRADA DE RECARGA. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA DE MADRID-GRABADOS COLOREADOS. MADRID. SPAIN.

H. M. Ethot, French feather dyer. H. M. Ethot, French feather dyer

Credit is dead, the bad payers killed him, 1800 - 1833 print The death of credit, by defaulters. The dead body of credit lies on the floor. Around his body are a goose, a painter, a violinist and a fencer. Under each image a French verse in six columns. Numbered below: No. 73. Turnwood paper letterpress printing murder. murderer. artist (in general)

Samples of the little sides of Berlin. (IT)

The Hand-Writing upon the Wall, James Gillray, 1803. Napoleon and Josephine, guarded by French soldiers, enjoy a feast of English riches. Napoleon looks on at writing. Above his head a crown is overbalancing a Cap of Liberty. Omen

The Political Blind - Buff Man or the Minist----l Expediency, Published: William Holland, 1757-1815, British, 1791, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 11 x 16 5/16in. (27.9 x 41.4cm)

The Müller and his child, by Raupach Gallerie Droller Scenen to the theater newspaper, th year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

The Ste bottle / saint. Boot unknown, Peller

Vous etes Grand Comme leMonde!. Artist: François Georgin, French, 1801-1863

Gauls, 1882-1884.Artist: A Tauxier

Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1815, after Quiz.

Metternich and the globe satirical comparison of Metternich with Npaoleon, Unknown

The Death of Prince Józef Poniatowski. unknown, graphic artist

Plate 2 of 6. Satirical Cartoon - Birmingham Bag Man: Out of His Road, 24/10/1792. Engraver: Edward Hedges Cornhill

Dedicated to the author of the caricature / made against Mr Bavoux (IT)

Hengelaar at a stone base; PLAYSANTE LANTONS ENDE MNEELYCKE SIZED. A angleman is sitting on a quay, leaning against a base on which different vanitassymbles: a raised skull and a random pipe and candle. On the ground the attributes of country life such as rake and fisherman's utensils. The title of the Prenterie is stated on the base. Under the title on the base can be read that Claes Jansz. Visscher has manufactured the title print after the death of the carriage of the series: Jan van de Velde (II). Title print of a series with 36 prints of landscapes, divided into six parts.

Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759-1817, British, Split with Wedge and Beetel, undated. Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gerard Grandville, 'Les Metamorphoses du jour' 1829.illustration from a famous series of political caricatures

Return of Napoleon to Paris after Waterloo, 1815, Wijnand Esser, 1815 - 1820, Cartoon on the return of Napoleon to Paris after the lost battle of Waterloo, June 20, 1815. Napoleon in battered uniform and lamfer hat (hat with mourning lamfer) and mourning cloak and crosswood (Les Quatre-Bras) in hand, standing outside the city wall of Paris. On the city wall are four Frenchmen with Jacobin hats looking on terrified, Fouché on the left., draughtsman: Wijnand Esser, (mentioned on object), Netherlands, 1815 - 1820, paper, pen, brush, h 333 mm × w 318 mm

Legalized Plunderers, from Puck Published 1880 United States. Color lithograph on newsprint . Unknown artist

Split with Wedge and Beetel, Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759-1817, British, undated, Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 2 3/8 × 3 inches (6 × 7.6 cm), chopping, genre subject, men, trees, wedge, workers

From Top to Bottom, or Cause and Effect (Du haut en bas...ou les causes et les effets). Artist: Elie (French, active 1813-1819). Dimensions: plate: 9 5/8 x 12 7/8 in. (24.5 x 32.7 cm)sheet: 9 13/16 x 14 13/16 in. (25 x 37.7 cm). Date: April 1814.Published in Paris shortly after Napoleon's abdication, this satire suggests that the emperor fell because he attempted to wage simultaneous campaigns on opposite sides of Europe. French armies had successfully invaded Spain in 1808 but soon encountered guerrilla resistance backed by British troops. A series of defeats in 1812 forced a withdrawal over the Pyrenees. That same year Napoleon led his Grand Armée into Russia and captured Moscow, but again had to retreat after suffering heavy losses, brutal weather and inadequate supplies. This image shows the emperor falling from splintering stilts that still rest precariously on Madrid and Moscow. Dropping the imperial orb and scepter, he will land at Fontainebleau Palace, where he formally abdicat

Plate 11 depicting the trades of Rome, here including vendors of pigs heads, milk, wine 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 11 depicting the trades of Rome, here including vendors of pigs heads, milk, wine 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

Crédit Est Mort, Les Mauvais Payeurs L'DE TUÉ. The death of credit, by defaulters. The dead body of credit is on the ground. Around his body are a goose, a painter, a violinist and a fencer. Under every image a French fresh in six columns. Numbered at the bottom right: No. 73.

Lyrics with illustration. Zakład Lit.E.Jakowlewa, lithography atelier, unknown, graphic artist, Wydawnictwo P.N.Szerapowa, publishing house

Erepur et Humanity. (You)

Boney and Talley. The Corsican Carcase-Butchers Reckoning Day

The political locust' Caricature of a devouring locust nibbling at the remains of 'poor old England', left in a destitute condition by high taxes, military setbacks, food shortages and an influx of destitute French clergy, during the summer of 1795.

The Prince Hohenlohe tail. (IT)

The Fall of Dagon - or Rare News for Leadenhall Street, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, 1784, Etching

Dibujo político satírico publicado en el semanario El Pais de la Olla, octubre de 1882, en alusión al proyecto de reforma de la constitución española. Puente de Alcolea. Praxedes Mateo Sagasta Escolar.

Fashionable Bores, or Coolers in High Life, Daniel Thomas Egerton, c.1800-1842, British, Peter Quiz, active 1824, 1824, Aquatint, colored by hand, Sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 3/4in. (21.6 x 27.3cm)

Turnhout, Brepols, Philippus Jacobus, Crédit est mort, les mauvais Payeurs l'ont tué, verso - stamped, The death of Credit, by defaulters. The dead body of Credit lies on the ground. Around his body stand a goose, a painter, a violinist and a fencer. Below each image a French verse in six columns. Numbered lower right: No. 73., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 335 mm, width 390 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Belgisch, 1778 - 1845, publisher, uitgever, 1800 - 1833, paper, papier, houtsnede, kleuren, letterpress printing, boekdruk, print maker, prentmaker

23. Never _cending Des Tuileries. / No. 8

Imprudence of small Jonathan the American. (Registered title) | News. (Title of the whole)

Paris and Versailles, by Bertall. / Who is the panache

Use Fairbanks Soap. , Boys, Men, Goats, Dogs, Household soap, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Aspect de la salle. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Stone mason with mallet and chisel, and mason with wooden square from Grandes chroniques de France, Sloane MS 2433. Artisans in capuchin hoods and tunics from Guyard des Moulins' Bible of John the Good, Royal MS 19 D ii. Rustics etc. of the 14th century. Handcoloured engraving by Joseph Strutt from his Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, Henry Bohn, London, 1842.

Chinese money changer cutting silver ingots into different sizes for payment, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824.

The Gout, 1799. James Gillray (British, 1757-1815), Hannah Humphrey. Etching hand-colored with watercolor ; sheet: 32.3 x 46.5 cm (12 11/16 x 18 5/16 in.); platemark: 26 x 36.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 3/8 in.).

Grave of a Khoisan chieftain. Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to). Dating: Jun-1779 - Jan-1780. Measurements: h 660 mm × w 480 mm; h 225 mm × w 408 mm; h 206 mm × w 386 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Napoleon s russkim medvedem Crazy Paul! A new ballad to the tune of Crazy Jane Napoleon with the Russian bear, satirical illustration. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1884 - 1890. Rare Book Division

Sawney below stairs. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Bute, John Stuart,Earl of,1713-1792.

The worship of the golden calf, the caricature, no 183, pl. 384 Traviès de Villers, Charles Joseph (1804 1859), delaunois lithography, Aubert printing (Saly)

Berber executioner torturing and killing an escaped slave by hanging him by his impaled wrist and ankle from a scaffold. North Africa, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by L. Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.

Cartoon on the French Customs, 1813-1814, Wijnand Esser, 1813 - 1814 print Central a tobacco plant 'Director' in a glass bottle marked 'United Rights', on the left a barrel tobacco, on the right a bag of coffee beans. Rats with names such as' cellar rot ',' inspector 'and Dronke Rot' crawl over everything. In the background, the French customs from the Netherlands flee. The Hague paper etching tobacco. coffee. rodents: rat. customs

Gold. The best family soap for the price in the world.. Gold. The best family soap for the price in the world.

Clarence Brooks & Co. fine coach varnishes. Who done send dat walentine chile , People, Paints & varnishes, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Scene in a Famine: Quarreling for Carrion, Robert Mabon, died 1798, British, undated, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 3 3/4 × 3 5/8 inches (9.5 × 9.2 cm)

La lidia. Cogida de Manuel Domínguez Campos (1816-1886), Desperdicios. Año 1886.

Embroiderer working on two pieces of silk cloth, Qing Dynasty. One with a bird for a civil mandarin, one with a quadruped animal for a military mandarin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824.

España. Dibujo satírico alusivo a la política española. Interior de la revista El Motín, editado en Madrid, mayo de 1887. Alegoría de la República abrumada ante el poder eclesiástico.

Satire. Magazine 'La Flaca', 7 August 1870. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. OTTO VON BISMARCK.

Napoleon in the rat trap, 1813; The rot is in the fall. Cartoon on Napoleon after the lost blow at Leipzig in 1813. The emperor sits like a rat caught in a fall. The bait with which Napoleon is lured in the fall is an orange apple with inscription 'I was very tasty on him. " With a four-line caption.

Chinese porter carrying goods in a wheelbarrow, 18th century. The wheelbarrow has a sail at the front to catch the wind. Porteur avec sa brouette a voile. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries La Chine: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Chinois,China: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Chinese, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1822. Jean-Baptiste Eyries(1767-1846) was aFrenchgeographer, author and translator.

William Gladstone about to hit with a hammer the statue of Disraeli as a sphinx; pyramids in the background. Engraving, ca. 1878.

Animalia Rationalia et Insecta (Ignis): Plate LXX. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joris Hoefnagel.

Set of eight with title-page. 'Foreign and Domestick Animals.' 7. The Persian Lynx, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, after Charles Catton the elder RA, 1728-1798, British, And after Sawrey Gilpin, 1733-1807, British, 1787, Hand colored etching, Sheet: 6 1/4 x 10 1/4in. (15.9 x 26cm)

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