Satirical Art Depicting Authority

Colorful illustrations showcasing characters in comedic, confrontational scenarios, capturing satire and criticism of authority figures with exaggerated expressions.

How Little Herman Imagines A Mixed Choir 1903 F. Haft (20th C.)

Puppet master manipulating a marionette. From La Science Illustree, Paris, 1893.

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Four men in a bistro, Henri Gabriel Ibels, c. 1892 - c. 1893 print Café interior with a cafe holder behind the tap cupboard and two drinking men in front. Left in the foreground a carded man, on the right a table with a glass and a carafe. Program of the Theater performance Le Devoir of the Théâtre Libre (4th Spectacle). paper inn, coffee-house, public house, etc.. alcoholic drinks

Scenes from Punch and Judy, circa 1900, maker unknown.

Cartoon - A Joyous Surprise Rostap (1866-1949)

The Quarrelsome European Nursery - A large group of children in a nursery fighting amongst themselves, they are labeled "England" and "Russia", "Austria" and "Italy", "Greece" and "Turkey", "France" and "Germany" fighting over a child or doll labeled "Alsace Lorraine", "Roumania" and "Servia", and in the background on the left, "Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and China"; the mother of the house, an angel labeled "Peace" looks tired and exasperated. There is a dead bird in a birdcage hanging on the left. Political cartoon, 1897

At Salem, Dr Wilkinson is pursued by a sinister wolf which, in the prevailing climate of panic, is linked to the witchcraft scare. Date: 1692

Cartoon - Uncle's Little Joke Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

Boxer Rising, China, 1899-1901: Civilization telling the Chinese Emperor that the first duty is to kill the dragon of rebellion, if he does not do it, she will have to. Front page of American satirical magazine 'Puck' 8 August 1900.

Wall Street bubbles; - Always the same. J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) American financier as a bull blowing bubbles of inflated values, for which a group of people are eagerly reach. From Puck, New York 1901. Telegraph Ticker-tape

Magic poster - Hermann's Trans-Atlantique Vaudevilles - The Only Trewey

The national costume. ... / No. 10. (Registered title) | British morals (IFF 37) (set of all)

Portada de la revista humorística Gutiérrez, dirigida por K-Hito. Madrid, enero de 1933.

The Redhead Moon / Third Year - N ° 126 / Sunday 4 May 1879 / The Centenary of the Assomoir, by Gill.

Green Album: Le Menage Catullold Mendes SEM (1863-1934). "Green Album: Chatull Household Mend�s". Lithograph in color, 1901.

Cartoon - The Boss and The Boys Rostap (1866-1949)

Theatre programme for Le devoir by Louis Bruyerre (Théâtre Libre, 15 February 1893). Dimensions: 24 cm x 31.9 cm, 22.9 cm x 31 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: HENRI GABRIEL IBELS.

Men Like Women, Magic & Mesmer

Engraving showing two acrobats performing tricks on a 'Penny Farthing' bicycle during a circus show, c.1888. Date: 1888

He danced with the biggest ladies SEM (Georges Goursat, says - 1863-1934). "He danced with the biggest ladies". Color lithography.

Viewing days; Exposition Private / Exposition Publique. Page with two performances. Above a crowd of people in front of an entrance to an auction house during a private viewing day. Under the empty interior of an auction house during a public viewing day. Legal under numbered: 114. The print is part of a magazine.

Circus scene. A circus particle with acrobats, musicians and cord dancers. Numbered at the bottom right: P. 10.

Cock-a-doodle-doo, My dame has lost her shoe, My master has lost his fiddle-stick ... A man with New Music for the Violin gets into a state, kicks the chair over and hurts his foot. As he falls on the floor, he notices that the bow has been in his back pocket all the time. Date: 1899

Thurston, Kellar's Successor: the prisoner of Canton. Posters. 1908. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Thurston, Howard, 1869-1936

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Colored poster by Hans Schließmann around 1900 depicting blind passengers, titled 'Lump Ball', showing figures in a public scene.

Picture Post Card, Sikko van der Woude, 1945 One of eight 'funny' postcards, drawings in color of traditional Dutch and (most Scottish) soldiers put into traditional costumes. Note: Eight postcards in envelope with text in red and blue in red-white-blue frame. Netherlands paper printing Netherlands

Waiting for the Verdict - The Coroner's Jury will undoubtedly find that the deceased committed suicide. Political Cartoon showing Uncle Sam, with John Bull and personifications of Germany, Italy, Russia, Austria and France, arguing near deathbed of "Spain," as suicide weapon "Stupidity" lies nearby and "History"'s pen awaits. 1898

A colored poster from around 1910 by Julius Klinger promoting the Messter-Film 'Tailor Strike' in Berlin, depicting cinematic narrative.

Broadway on a Jewish holiday. Caricature showing the Jewish business district of Broadway totally deserted except for a yawning policeman.

The Stork carried him up into the air the scarecrow - Illustration from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Bilderserie Kinder als Artisten im Zirkus / Picture series children as artists in circus, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.

That's so, or The Union cause is gaining ground, Webster, J. P. (composer), Call, Lowell (lyricist), H. M. Higgins, Chicago, 1863., United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Songs and music, Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano, Songs with piano, Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, Songs and music, Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894, Songs and music, Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872, Songs and music, Hunter, David, 1802-1886, Songs and music, Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876, Songs and music, Vicksburg (Miss.), History, Siege, 1863, Songs and music, Port Hudson (La.), History, Siege, 1863, Songs and music, Popular Songs of the Day, Songs and Music, War and Conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Music associated with the Union side, sheet music

The discovery of the law of gravitation by Louis Glackens, 1866-1933, artist published in Puck 1910 October 5th. Illustration shows a Wright Brothers airplane crashed into a tree with Sir Isaac Newton and another man in the wreckage on the ground.

William Hooker Gillette (July 24, 1853 April 29, 1937) was an American actor, playwright and stage-manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered today for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a now lost 1916 silent film

An Italian balloonist is caught in a storm : when his balloon is struck he plummets fatally to the ground. Date: 1907

Schuhplattler, a traditional Austro-Bavarian folk dance, Germany, historical engraving, about 1888, Europe

Up to Date - Theodore Roosevelt saying to William Howard Taft, "I can lick my weight in wildcats, C.Q.D!", and Taft replying, "Oh, that's nothing; I can eat my weight in 'possums, P.D.Q!" Political Cartoon, 1906

Portada de la revista humorística El Senyor Canons, número cuatro de la tercera época, editada en Barcelona, noviembre de 1930. Author: Joan Garcia Junceda Supervia.

Old Fairy Gives Her Evil Gift, Children's Literature

Vegetable Man is Stuck!, Wizard of Oz

Communist propaganda poster depicting a jaunty Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) wielding a sure broom to sweep from the globe such figures of the old order as Kings, a black-robed priest, and -clutching his money bag- a top-hatted capitalist. Dated 20th Century

Cartoon of Mr Punch and his dog Toby in a museum of inventions which has been made obsolete by the rapid advance of inventions. Dated 19th Century

Olga Precheisen and Ritter Mosenthal, Olga Lewinsky- Precheisen as Gretchen, Salomon Hermann von Mosenthal as a native Faust, in the background Josefine Gallmeyer as Martha Schwerdtlein and Heinrich Laube as Mephisto title page of Der Floh , Karl Klic , Caricaturist, Johann Tomassich, realization

Scenes from Punch and Judy, circa 1900, maker unknown.

Broadway contrasts: George Beban and Holbrook Blinn. Locke, Robinson, 1856-1920. Scrapbooks, Cartoons (Humor). 1910-04-17. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Beat that if you can - Lautz Bro's & Co's Stearine Soap.. Beat that if you can - Lautz Bro's & Co's Stearine Soap.

Anthony Comstock, the Village Nuisance from Puck Magazine

Studenti (atti I e II) , Operas & operettas, Costumes, Allen A. Brown Collection

Portada de la revista humorística ¡Cu-Cut!, número uno, año uno, editada en Barcelona, enero de 1902.

Coloured illustration of a politician being kicked from behind by an angry mob. Headline "A programme There you are!" Illustrated by BLASS". Dated 15 May 1888.

"Bryan's Hobby", Political Cartoon Featuring William Jennings Bryan as a horse racing jockey sitting on a rocking horse trying to catch Grover Cleveland, Artwork by John S. Pugh, Lithograph by J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Magazine, Keppler & Schwarzmann, Ma

Edwardian British postcard satirising freemasons. Circa 1908. Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century

Ten of Diamonds, College Go As You Please, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros. 1889 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Playing cards issued as trade cards from the "Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series" (N220), issued in 1889 to promote Kinney Tobacco Company.. Ten of Diamonds, College Go As You Please, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.. 1889. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Magic poster - El Verdadero Diablo

The Theater Free / Program of the 3rd Show of Season 1892-1893

" HOLD ME !" CRIED THE DOCTOR.

Lord Howard de Walden, Jack Leach, and Dawson Waugh, cartoon by Peter Ronald Buchanan, known as The Tout, from The Tatler, No 1364, August 17, 1927, London.

Colour illustration of two men on an ice skating rink. One holds a hat marked Dupui. Headlines "The bad eye - be careful president. It is the third time he has tumbled". Dated 26 February 1899.

'After the Honeymoon - Their first dinner party', 1927. Artist: Unknown.

Little Lily's Alphabet: Oh, Freddy!, Alphabet - Little Lilly

Les Lauri's Lauri, Eden-Theater, Jacko C. Junior Lauri Poster for the show "Les Lauri Lauri's" at Eden-Theater. Color lithography. 1880-1900.

Bunker Hill Harness Oil. , Men, Drums Musical instruments, Oils & fats, 19th Century American Trade Cards

The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

France 20th century. The moving of the Conservatory (Le Demenagement du conservatoire: M. G. Faure, M. Dujardin-Beaumetz, M. Bourgeat, M. Bernheim, M. St-Saens, M. Massenet, M. Debussy). From Comedia Illustr, caricature by Bils, July 1910.

Portada de la revista humorística ¡Cu-Cut!, número uno, año uno de la resurreción, editada en Barcelona, noviembre de 1913.

Puck Magazine: Squire's Scheme, Puck Magazine

Cartoon, Acrobatics. Is he an air ace No, he's just a guy with love troubles ! Date: 1919

Series of pictures of children as artists in the circus, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from c. 1900, Liebig Collector's Pic...

It's still him !!!, by EUG. Ladreyt.

His First War Hero 1901. German Emperor Wilhelm II holding the strings of wooden jumping toy indentified as "V. Waldersee".

The Parisian world / m. Vancorbeil, Director of the Opera.

The Little Moon / N ° 11 / HOUSE!

Another whiff and all is over - THe English Dance of Death

Alice in Wonderland: Father William Balances an Eel, Alice in Wonderland

This scene complements William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet I, with apothecary man mixing brew for Juliet to Romeo.

Book illustration, Max and Moritz depositing the beetles in Uncle Fritz's bed, Max and Moritz, A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch, 1865

Six illustrations from a theatre production of Drake, a pageant-play in three acts by Louis Napoleon Parker, starring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Sir Francis Drake. Showing four scenes from the play, the audience joining in by singing La Marseillaise, and men standing around reading the latest war news during the interval. The production took place at His Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London. Date: August 1914

The Redhead Moon / First Year - N ° 48 / Sunday 4th November 1877 / The excellent comedian Lassouche, having made use of the water Bazana ...

1910s LAUGHING SANTA CLAUS HOLDING GLASSES READING LETTERS TO DEAR SANTA COVER CHICAGO SUNDAY MAGAZINE COVER DECEMBER 11 1910

Puck Magazine: Blind!!, Puck Magazine

1910 The intruder a powerful comedy drama of the East & West (the love and romance of an outlaw), by Robert J. Sherman. Died 1939.

Theatre programme for Le grappin by Georges Salandri and L'affranchie by Maurice Biollay (Thétre Libre, 3 November 1892). Dimensions: 24 cm x 32.2 cm, 22.6 cm x 31.1 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: HENRI GABRIEL IBELS.

Magic poster - Andress and His Novelty Gift Shows

The First Cigar

Puck Magazine: ""The Public Be Damned"", Puck Magazine

Puck Magazine: A Petty Annoyance, Puck Magazine

Judge: The Free-Silver Svengali, Judge Magazine

Medieval swordfight show. Performers with swords and shields fighting (top), Performers with swords and shields fighting accompanied by a bagpiper (middle), and two students fighting with bucklers and cudgels (bottom). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

'Injured Innocence and his Billet-Doo', 1860. Artist: Unknown

Chimney sweep on a bicycle, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date not known

Edwardian British postcard satirising freemasons. Circa 1908. Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century

Puck Magazine: ""Change About"" - The Monkey The Master, Puck Magazine

A British soldier drumming in a marching band accompanied by a soldier playing a fife. Date: 1867

Postcard, Viennese types - Ah, Dös Fräuln know i, Commissioning of a servant, Brothers Kohn KG B, Publishing House, after, Fritz Schönpflug -, Artistist

Flat print advertising 'Good Morning Mr. Fischer' by Philipp & Pressburger, Vienna VII, 1914, showing film title, company, and cinematic promotion.

Curfew shall not ring tonight! Illustration shows a woman labeled "Corrupt Corporations" in a bell tower, hanging onto the clapper labeled "Third Term" of a bell which bears the countenance of Theodore Roosevelt. Political Cartoon, 1907

Judge: All the Fools Are Not Dead Yet, Judge Magazine

ACCIDENTE EN EL CIRCO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE.

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