Satirical Political Caricatures

Humorous etchings and illustrations depicting political commentary through exaggerated figures and allegorical scenes, often in black and white.

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) German-English composer born in Halle. 'The Charming Brute', caricature of Handel published in 1754.

The Gamekeepers Attacking the Poachers, Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, undated, Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper

'The Irish Devil-Fish', 1881. Artist: Joseph Swain

According Marillier, vintage engraving. According Marillier, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673479

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist.

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Adrien Lavieille (1818-1862), engraver. "The part of Dez." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101779-29 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) German-English composer born in Halle. 'The Charming Brute', caricature of Handel published in 1754.

Caricature of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), 1754. Artist: Unknown

Meteorological observatory on Ben Nevis, Scotland. Cartoon by Harry Furniss (1854-1925) marking its opening. From 'Punch' (London 27 October 1883). Wood engraving.

The weary one. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1916. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Paul Riault (19th century), engraver. "TRESS OF Sister Claire." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101788-4 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

Cartoon depicting a couple climbing over a fence so that they can elope. Dated 19th Century

Acrobat Exercise, (1885). Artist: Unknown

Kriegszeit, no. 14 (11 September 1914). Various German ArtistsMax Liebermann (Germany, Berlin, 1847-1935)Erich Büttner (Germany, Berlin, 1889-1936)August Gaul (Germany, Grossauheim, 1869-1921). Germany, Berlin, 1914. Periodicals. Printed material and four lithographs on wove paper

Revolutionists. British Cartoon Prints Collection . George,III,King of Great Britain,1738-1820. , Burke, Edmund,1729-1797. , Pitt, William,1759-1806. , Politics & government,Great Britain,1780-1790. , Revolutionaries,Great Britain,1780-1790.

Cartoon commenting on board schools. The professional classes feared that universal publicly funded education would create too many 'educated' people, and so put them out of work. Illustrated by Harry Furniss (1854-1925) and Irish artist and illustrator. Dated 19th century

The Prodigal Son (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ) 1864 After Sir John Everett Millais British It took Millais seven years to design twenty images inspired by New Testament Parables for the Dalziel Brothers, and the resulting prints are considered pinnacles of wood engraved illustration. The artist wrote to his publishers, "I can do ordinary drawings as quickly as most men, but these designs can scarcely be regarded in the same lighteach Parable I illustrate perhaps a dozen times before I fix [the image." After completing a design, Millais transferred it to a woodblock coated with Chinese white for skilled engravers to carve. Finally, he reviewed proofs and final adjustments were made before the final printing.The Parable of the Prodigal Son appears in Luke:15:11-32, and Millais focused on the verse when the repentant son returns to ask forgiveness and his father "filled with compassion...threw his arms around him and kissed him." Pre-Raphaelite ideals shaped the co

Embrassons nous. Dated: 1867. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798 - 1863). Hamlet: Je suis l'esprit..., 1834-1843. From Hamlet. Lithographs.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 1746-Burdeos, 1828). Grabado. Serie "Tauromaquia" (aguafuerte). Plancha 19ª: Otra locura suya en la misma plaza. Primera edición. Madrid, 1816.

Engraving by Gustave Dore 1832-1883 French artist and illustrator of Puss in Boots from Fairy Realm by Tom Hood

'Northumberland making a Speech', 1897. Creator: John Leech.

Illustration by Gustave Dore for 'Le Capitaine Fracasse' by Pierre Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)French, Writer, poet, painter, art critic. Gautier was a defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. Captain Fracasse (Le Capitaine Fracasse) is an 1863 novel by the French writer Théophile Gautier. It is an adventure novel set in the seventeenth century.

Woman carrying a load of coal up a 'turnpike' spiral stair - Scotland. From Matthias Dunn 'A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries', Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1848. Engraving

Woodman, Spare That Tree: Disraelis (Lord Beaconsfield) Conservative advice to Gladstone, the Liberal, not to disturb the nest of vipers and to leave the Turkish question alone. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 26 May 1877.

One of Punch's little capital letter illustrations. Artist: Unknown

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Old XIX century engraving illustration by Gustave Dore

Around the cradle, Composition drawing and Miss Marie-Edmee Pau, vintage engraving. Around the cradle, Composition drawing and Miss Marie-Edmee Pau, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1873. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679580

What will he grow to, 1881. Artist: Joseph Swain

GEORGIA, African-American Cabin, 1880, 19th century engraving, USA, America

Persian slave, from Travels in central Asia 1863 by Armin Vambery. Old engraving El Mundo en la Mano 1878

Illustration depicting an intruder being interrupted by a young woman. Dated 19th Century

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Ravages of war. 1810-1812. Plate 30 of 'The Disasters of War'. Etching. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Engraving of a Figurehead, a carved wooden decoration found at the prow of ships largely made between the 16th and 20th centuries. Dated 19th Century

Illustration showing Tsar Nicholas I (1796-1855), Emperor of Russia from 1825. John Leech cartoon from Punch, 1854, showing him hurtling to the edge of a precipice on a sledge labelled DESPOTISM

Cartoon depicting a street sweeper. Dated 19th Century

The Pretend Earl of Warwick employed on the kitchen of Henry VII, Illustration from the Book, "John Cassels Illustrated History of England, Volume II", text by William Howitt, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1858

Where is my Charmer, Puzzles & Optical Illusions

The Goblin and the Sexton. Illustration from the Charles Dickens novel The Pickwick Papers by H.K. Browne known as Phiz

Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828). Los Chinchillas. (The Chinchillas.), 1796-1797. From Los Caprichos, no. 50. Etching, burnished aquatint, and burin on cream laid paper. Plate: 205 mm x 150 mm (8.07 in. x 5.91 in.).

The New Year 1896 1896 José Guadalupe Posada. The New Year 1896. José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851-1913). 1896. Etching on zinc. Prints

Christ Taken, from The Passion. Jan Georg van Vliet; Dutch, c. 1610-after 1635. Date: 1630-1640. Dimensions: 217 x 168 mm (image/plate); 220 x 180 mm (sheet). Etching on ivory laid paper. Origin: Holland. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Acrobat Exercise, (1885). Artist: Unknown

Federalist Party political cartoon attacking Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1801

Engraving depicting a prince in formal wear. Dated 18th Century

A cartoon depicting Prime Minister William Gladstone watching the unrest in Ireland, waiting to intervene. April 4th a new Irish Peace Preservation Act was passed. Illustrated by John Tenniel.

Les Deux Pélerins (The Two Pilgrims), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons) ca. 1623 Jacques Callot French. Les Deux Pélerins (The Two Pilgrims), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons). Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). ca. 1623. Etching; first state of two (Lieure). Prints

The Plumb-pudding in Danger: or, State Epicures Taking Un Petit Souper. William Pitt, British Minister, and Napoleon I carving up the globe. After a cartoon by James Gilray, 1805.

Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) British businessman and statesman. Member of Parliament 1876-1914. Chamberlain, leader of the movement for Tariff Reform, the last campaign of his career, moderating his proposals for reform. Cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne from 'Punch', London, 5 December 1906.

España. Siglo XIX. Comercio ambulante. El esquilador. Grabado de 1940.

Historic steel engraving by Johann Baptist Wilhelm Adolf Sonderland, 1805 - 1878, a German illustrator, scene from The Felon of Lost Honour - a true story, a crime report by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

A cartoon commenting on Gladstone's proposed disestablishment of the Irish Church. Dated 19th century

'A Scare-crow', 1852. Artist: John Leech.

'Scipio and Hannibal', 1852. Artist: John Leech.

The tooth-puller, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836.

Folter, Tortur, Inquisition, a. Verurteilter, mit hinter dem Rücken gefesselten Händen, an einer Seilrolle in die Luft gehoben, b. mit Seilrolle, c. spitze Stangen oder Kegel, auf die die Verurteilter fallen gelassen wurden, Illustration, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, Mittelater, Authentisch, Datei restauriert für optimale Verwendung, genaues Datum der Vorlage unbekannt gallonio-tortures-1591-p10-37da1f

Unos a Otros Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Unos a Otros, 1797-1798. Etching and aquatint on laid paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 8 in. (30.2 x 20.3 cm). European Art 1797-1798

fine arts, Solis, Vigil (1514 - 1562), ""Huren Hund und Katzen raufen bei_en und kratzen"", coloured engraving, Nuremberg, circa 1540, private collection,

'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', (1934). Artist: Arthur Rackham.

Crossbowman protected by shield bearers, 15th century. The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix, 1874

'The Demon Rough', 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain

Group of several people. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1922. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut on Japan paper

Rodoald or Rodwald, c. 637 - 653, a Lombard king of Italy, assassinated in 653

Engraving depicting a scene from "Tom Brown's Schooldays": Chairing Tom in the quadrangle. Tom Brown's Schooldays is set in the 1830s at Rugby School, a public school for boys, and was mostly based on the author's experiences at the school. Written by Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. Illustrated by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Dated 19th century

Mockery, caricature of Napoleon III, 1871, published the day after the proclamation of the Republic, France, Historical, digitally restored reproducti...

LITERATURA CASTELLANA. "EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA". Obra escrita por Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616). "LA IMAGINACION DE DON QUIJOTE ESTA INFLADA POR LOS ROMANCES DE CABALLERIA". Grabado de Gustave DORE.

The Queen's Gold Cup, 1850. Horseracing trophy: '...the "Queen's Cup," being the gift of her Majesty Queen Victoria...is modelled by Mr. Cotterill, and manufactured by Messrs. Garrards....the introduction of the chains is a very beautiful addition, and something new to the English school. The Cup is what is called a Spanish flagon, of the sixteenth century, and is peculiar in its shape. The group on the base represents Arab huntsmen attacking a lioness, who stands at bay to defend herself and her cubs. The whole is remarkable for the animation of the scene - the correctness of the co

James Gillray, 'Fast-asleep', forms a pair with 'Wide-awake', q.v.

Illustration for Thomas Campbell's poem 'Lord Ullin's Daughter'. The chieftain of the Isle of Ulva is eloping with Lord Ullin's daughter, her father in hot pursuit. The lover's board the ferry in wild weather and are drowned as the distraught father watches. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) a Scottish poet. Dated 18th century

Life And Death by Thomas Bewick, woodcut, 1797, 1753-1828, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Standing man with a stick under the arm. Draughtsman: Herman Saftleven. Dating: 1619 - 1685. Measurements: h 91 mm × w 69 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The Spectre of Tappington. From the book The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, published 1865.

A cartoon commenting on the wet summer of 1888. Dated 19th century

Franklin's kite experiment, c1752, (1869). Artist: Unknown

America equonoccial. Erruption of wasps in the Vanguardia. Engraving, 19th century.

Valencian men dressed in traditional typical costumes, Comunidad Valenciana. Journey to Spain, 1862 by Jean Charles Davillier (1823-1883) Drawing by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Illustration depicting a clock-maker of Old Japan

He soon fell asleep, vintage engraving. He soon fell asleep, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne 3 Russian and 3 English, 1872. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10647490

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879). Un procédé pour qu'il marche sans avancer, 1868. From Actualités. Lithograph on newsprint paper. Image: 243 mm x 217 mm (9.57 in. x 8.54 in.). Third of three states.

'The Iron Stove', 1901. Artist: Edward Henry Wehnert.

MONUMENT TO HANDEL, BY ROUBILLIAC, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

Esta Vmad (1) Pues, Como Digo...Eh...Cuidado. Si no. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Esta Vmad (1) Pues, Como Digo...Eh...Cuidado. Si no., 1797-1798. Etching and aquatint on laid paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 15/16 in. (30.2 x 20.2 cm). European Art 1797-1798

A cartoon depicting Edward Bouverie Pusey being kicked down the stairs by John Bull and Mr Punch. Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882) leader of the Oxford Movement and ritualism in the Church of England. Dated 19th century

Men fighting near a horse and carriage ca. 1900-1910 José Guadalupe Posada. Men fighting near a horse and carriage. José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851-1913). ca. 1900-1910. Wood engraving. Prints

East Indian postman and letter of the Cortyraeans to the oracle at Dodona, on lead plates, illustration from 1880, Greece / Ostindischer Postbeamter und Brief der Kortyräer an das Orakel zu Dodona, auf Bleiplatten, Illustration aus 1880, Griechenland, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Young Charles VI, in the Forest of Mans, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume III, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1897

'A Teuton maiden pursued by Romans', c1880-1882. Artist: Karl Theodor von Piloty

Prospect for Manchester after the approval of Edward Leader Williams plans for the Manchester Ship Canal. Cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch, London, 1882.

Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, 1841, illustration, 19th century

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 1746-Burdeos, 1828). Grabado. Serie "Los caprichos" (aguafuerte). Plancha 56ª: Subir y bajar. Primera edición. Madrid, 1799.

Argentina Tierra del Fuego people native equipment of the natives wood engraving 19th century,

Woodcut by Caspar David Friedrich, circa 1802, depicting a boy sleeping on a grave, reflecting Friedrich's use of solitude, landscape, and expressive Romantic imagery.

Demand Thy Life, 1870. Artist: Joseph Swain

'A Spencer and a Threadpaper', 1792. Artist: Unknown

A Group of Vultures waiting for the storm to blow over - Let us prey. William "Boss" Tweed and members of his ring, Peter B. Sweeny, Richard B. Connolly, and A. Oakey Hall, weathering a violent storm on a ledge with the picked-over remains of New York City. Political Cartoon, 1871

Monnoyeur, after a capital of the church of Saint Georges de Bocherville, Normandy, vintage engraved illustration. Colorful History of England, 1837.

Farmyard scene. Teniers, David II (Flemish, 1610-1690) (designed after) painter Teniers, David III (Flemish, 1638-1685) (designed after) painter c. 1700-1775 Tapestry Dimensions: GCPA 0241661: H 8' x W 4'5" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: unknown Ownership History: French & Co. Man & woman unload fish near barrels; woman carries sheaves of wheat, while man makes (wine) casks It appears tapestry panel was originally a single panel that has been cut into 3 distinct panels (Dimitrova). Panel seems to be made up of 2 or 3 pieces running top to bottom in reference to GCPA: 0241661 (Cavallo). French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 881 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestry (London manufactory), GCPA: 0181900

Witch hunt: witches, c1799 (1956). Artist: Unknown

Illustration from Los Caprichos set by Francisco de Goya, Etching, 1797-1798, 1746-1828, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 21, 5x15

Willard in Training Quarters. Dated: 1916. Dimensions: image: 39.05 × 44.13 cm (15 3/8 × 17 3/8 in.). Medium: lithograph in black. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Bellows.

Spanish Civil war illustration of communist republicans painting slogan on a wall. 1936

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