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 origin of Rome', 1757. Artist: Bernard de Montfaucon

Amsterdam, Waldorp, Jan Gerard, Ecce Proditor, Cartoon on Rijklof Michael van Goens, 1784, verso under - stamped, Cartoon on the Orangist Rijklof Michael van Goens, convicted as a traitor on the wheel, 1784. The body of Van Goens on the wheel on a pole, under the wheel Prince William V and the fat Duke of Brunswick mourn the execution. The print comes with a sheet with an explanation of the representation., print, prent, cartoon, prints, prenten, height 158 mm, width 95 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1740-08 - 1808-11-21, print maker, printmaker, 1784 - 1784, paper, papier, etching, etsen

Political satire depicting William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) former Prime Minister of Britain, and his 'old friend Homer' drawing his attention to the growing industrial unrest in the country. By Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist. Dated 19th Century

SG hist. navigation bucaneer/pirate pirate is being attacked by a crocodile a native man is fleeing Florida contemporary copper engraving mid 17th century,

Illustration for 'Prussian Brandenburg State History,' second part. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (Germany, Danzig, 1726-1801). Germany, 1790. Prints; etchings. Etching

The Visit. Dated: 1923. Dimensions: image: 31 x 26 cm (12 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 41 x 33.5 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/16 in.). Medium: woodcut printed in black on paper printed yellow. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER.

The Cuddaph Brahmin, Sheshal, demonstrating sitting in mid-air. Government House, Madras.

This is what Alice saw once she went through the Looking Glass and into the Looking Glass room in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass." Here are the Red Qeen and the Red King. To the right is a White Pawn that has rolled over and has started kicking. Alice has just stepped through the mantle mirror in her house into another world, where she is in a sunny spring garden. The flowers can speak and there she meets the Red Queen and Red King, who are human-size. The Queen tells Alice that the garden is like a huge chessboard and that she can make Alice a queen if she can make it to the eighth rank in a chess match.

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

Illustration depicting people diving into the sea from a diving board. Illustrated by George du Maurier (1834-1896) a Franco-British cartoonist and author. Dated 19th century

Stern and Rudder of Chinese Junk, "Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers", by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Le Lion De La Liberte.

Châtillon, Auguste de (n.1813 - D.1881), copy of the drawing of J.J. Grandville "Say Child of dog do you don't want to kiss your father Published in the Charivari, February 23, 1833 (dummy title), 1834-01-05. Ink feather on paper. Houses of Victor Hugo Paris - Guernsey.

Le deux grands ducs racontant ...Inkermann. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Antique painting discovered at Herculaneum in 1748, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845.

The works of Aristotle

Antique painting discovered at Herculaneum in 1748, vintage engraving. Antique painting discovered at Herculaneum in 1748, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673103

Un cauchemar de M. Bismarck. Dated: 1870. Medium: gillotype on newsprint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Decors opera, The chariot of Apollo, vintage engraving. Decors opera, The chariot of Apollo, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1867. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678335

This 1912 image shows Cleopatra on a barge on the Nile River. Cleopatra VII (69-30 B.C.), the daughter of Ptolemy XI, of Egypt. She married her brother Ptolemy XII and began to rule Egypt with him when she was 17. She later aligned her self with Julius Caesar against her brother. Following Caesar's death, she aligned herself with Mark Antony. Following Antony's death, she is said to have killed herself, as legend has it, by the bite of an asp.

Martyrdom of 5th century Saint Savinus and Saint Cyprien torn apart by iron hooks. Martyre des memes saints dechires avec des ongles de fer. 11th century fresco in the crypt of Saint-Savin church, Vienne. Woodcut by Etienne Huyot and Jules Huyot from Paul Lacroixs La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a lEpoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

'Well Rowed All!', 1869. Artist: Joseph Swain

Juan Sebastian Elcano (ca.1476-1526). Spanish explorer and navigator. Portrait. Engraving by Arturo Carretero (1852-1903) after a statue of Ricardo Bellver in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1879.

Bravo! A caricature of musical evenings', 1799 Artist: Francisco Goya. Organized by the Spanish Prime Minister, Manuel de Godoy (1767-1851), for King Charles IV of Spain, Plate 38 of 'Los Caprichos'. Los Caprichos are a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797 and 1798, and published as an album in 1799.

Cartoon - Promoted Rostap (1866-1949)

An engraving depicting two boys "thrashing" walnuts. Dated 19th century

An Indian obtaining fire by friction, 1894. Artist: Unknown.

Between sky and ocean, man holding onto a rope attached to a lighthouse, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century original, exact date of depiction unknown, historical

Unification of Italy: Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian Patriot, conquering Sicily and Naples on behalf of the new kingdom of Italy. John Tenniel cartoon from 'Punch', London, 16 June 1860. Wood engraving

Italian political propaganda illustration. Dated 20th Century

The Merchant of baskets, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1873.

A black man (Native American) leans on a barrel while holding a pipe and tobacco leaves. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.

Caricature of French Revolution by French master, etching, watercolor, 1789, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Engraving demonstrating fulcrum by a see-saw. Dated 19th Century

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, caricature of Martin Luther and his wife

A Pressoir, vintage engraving. A Pressoir, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673169

London Cigarette Card Company card 1924 depicting: Captain William Kidd (c.1645 1701); Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean

The long and short of it is a general bust up in the street / by Thomas Nast, 1840-1902, artist. Published: 18730101. Explosion blowing up Northern Pole R.R. Co, the Bank of Inflation, Fire and Brimstone Company, etc.

A cartoon commenting on the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia by Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910) an English cartoonist and illustrator. Dated 19th century

Sandre pulled the nugget of hiding, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890.

"The Bravos" - painted by Meissonier, 1856. Engraving '...after a picture by Meissonier, a very popular artist in France, who paints small fancy subjects. This picture tells its own tale - two assassins watching at a door for the exit of their intended victim. It has not been engraved in France - at least not for sale, if at all..Such is the desultory, fanciful style of this very pleasing artist, and the success with which he prosecutes it almost excites regret that he does not aspire a little higher and attempt something more important and upon a larger scale'. From "Illustrate

Counted Out, second stone, 1921, lithograph in black, image: 38.74 × 29.21 cm (15 1/4 × 11 1/2 in.), Mason 1992, no. 95, George Bellows (artist) American, 1882 - 1925

Graphic by Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) a British artist and illustrator. Dated 19th Century

Marabouts, vintage engraved illustration. Paris - Auguste VITU 1890.

Raising water by means of an Archimedean screw. Woodcut, 1668

Funerary statue of the Constable Olivier de Clisson, Josselin, Morbihan, vintage engraving. Funerary statue of the Constable Olivier de Clisson, Josselin, Morbihan, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1847. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673355

Baron Friedrich von der Trenck in his cell, a Magdeburg, vintage engraving. Baron Friedrich von der Trenck in his cell, a Magdeburg, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673124

Mockery from the year (1814) on the abdication of Napoleon, Fontainebleau Castle, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Europe

Escape of a prisoner at the old abbey Le Mont Saint Michel. Normandy, France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1884

Engraving depicting a wedge which, when hammered into a tree stump, acts as a lever to force the wood apart. Dated 19th Century

Gulliver in the Land of Brobdingnag, From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1726, Color lithograph after watercolor by Oskar Woite (b.1854)

The Street Singers 1862 France. Wood engraving block . Charles Maurand

Time Smoking a Picture William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764). , 1761. Etching, mezzotint, engraving on laid paper, 9 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (23 x 18.3 cm). European Art 1761

Cartoon - A Good Knight Rostap (1866-1949)

1866 Painting in a Salon called Winter in Lapland, vintage engraving 1866 Painting in a Salon called Winter in Lapland, showing a traveller looking over his dead reindeer, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque - 1867 Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678091

An engraving depicting beehives made of plaited rushes. Dated 19th century

J. DOYLE: HOO LOO CHOO, alias JOHN BULL, BETWEEN THE DOCTORS, MAY 2, 1831

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and Gérard (19th century), engraver. "The Maucgege apologizes for its cholera." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101782-16 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

An engraving depicting Alice McKenzie after her murder. Alice McKenzie (1849-1889) was believed to have been murdered by Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer believed to have been active in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888

'Off to Never Never Land', c1905. Artist: Unknown.

The worldwide adventures of an heir. From Travel Diaries, vintage engraving, 1884-85.

Engraving by Gustave Dore 1832-1883 French artist and illustrator of The Enchantment of Don Quixote from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Chapter 42 and 43

According to Greek mythology, Midas ruled in what is today Turkey, in the area known in ancient times as Phrygia. Pan, the god of shepherds, and mighty Apollo were arguing. Pan boasted that his flute made of reeds could produce a more beautiful melody than Apollos harp. Apollo then challenged Pan to a music contest.. One of the judges was King Midas, who alone chose Pan as the winner. Apollo was furious. 'The problem, Midas, is your ears. They are too small to hear properly. I will fix them.' Midas felt his ears quiver and turn into the large furry ears of a donkey! Before this incident, Midas had found the lost father of Bacchus, the god of wine and merrymaking. In return, Bacchus gave Midas any wish he wanted. Midas wished for all he touched to turn to goldand everything did, including his daughter. Midas then prayed for the wish to be recalled. Bacchus told Midas to wash his hands in the Pactolus River, which he did, turning the sands to gold and explaining why the river was so rich

A man sitting on a bed being poked with a broom by someone under the bed, illustration for 'Por Finjir Espantos,' edited by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo ca. 1880-1910 José Guadalupe Posada. A man sitting on a bed being poked with a broom by someone under the bed, illustration for 'Por Finjir Espantos,' edited by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851-1913). ca. 1880-1910. Wood engraving. Prints

Artes y oficios de Barcelona. Vendedores ambulantes voceros. Baladrers. Comprador y vendedor.

Artes y oficios de Barcelona. Vendedores ambulantes voceros. Baladrers. El sereno.

Leaflet - Izzet Pasha defeated; 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

THE MARTYR'S STONE, HADLEIGH

Illustration showing a baker who has given short measure (cheated), dragged to a pillory for public punishment. England 15th century

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