Satirical Political Cartoons

A variety of 18th to 19th-century political cartoons, illustrating government officials and societal critiques through humor and caricature. The scenes feature crowds, politicians, and popular figures

'Weighing', c1789. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson.

Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British, Mr. B seeking the Bubble reputation - Plate 5, 1820. Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, The Grand Review on Sydenham Common, 1792. Etching, hand-colored.

Departure of the citizens, 1792, France, after Jean-Jacques-Francois Le Barbier, Historical, digitally restored..

Staberl as Freischütz, parody of Carl theatrical picture gallery for the theater newspaper, st year, No, Johann Wenzel Zinke -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Prison court at the massacres of September 1792, in Paris Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1749-1826). Prison Court during the massacres of September 1792, in Paris. Gouache on cut carton glued on a sheet of washed blue paper.

English dandies leaving French hustlers in a pool hall. Life in a Billiard Room, or Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins au fait (awake) to the Parisian Sharpers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, Fairburn, London, 1822.

Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756 - 1827 ), The Times, probably 1783, hand-colored etching, Rosenwald Collection

Copies of three illustrations (No. 10, 11, 12) D. Chodowiecki to the work of Johann Christoph Mayer Histoire des Croisade History of the Crusades, included in: Almanac de Gotha Contenant Diverses L'Ancclxxxxii. Chez C. W. Ettinger Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus (1726 1801)

Eight months in two hours or The Power of Childrens Love by Donizette Gallerie Drollerie Scenen for the theater newspaper, Jg, No, Severin Buemann -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

Champ d'Asile. Date/Period: 1813/1823. Hand-colored engraving. Width: 28.6 cm. Height: 25.7 cm (sheet). Author: Joseph Claude Pomel.

Artist: Peter S. Duval, American, born France, 1805-1886, After: James Queen, American, 1824-1877, Sailors on Shore. The Victory.6., Lithograph, sheet: 27 × 34 cm (10 5/8 × 13 3/8in.), Made in United States, American, 19thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Egyptian woman in veil with bare breasts washing clothes in a river while a shepherd watches, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.

Muzikanten van het Amsterdamse exercitiegenootschap in 1783-1787. De Amsterdamsch Burgers Tamboers Major met 3 tamboers / 1 Pijper van het Genootschap (title on object). Draughtsman: S.G. Casten. Dating: 1795. Place: Amsterdam. Measurements: h 197 mm × w 310 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Dibujo satírico. Entierro del Carnaval. Febrero de 1872. La Carcajada.

Interesting scene (An), on board an East Indiaman : Showing the effects of a heavy lurch - after dinner , Ships, Eating & drinking, Passengers, East India Company. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Prints and Drawings

Scene at a tavern in Andalusia, Spain, mid-19th century. A seated man with jug of wine invites a traveler inside. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857.

Cartoon by satirist Thomas Rowlandson 1756-1827: Scene outside a post house

23. Never _cending Des Tuileries. / No. 8

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, The Paris Diligence, undated. Watercolor with pen and black, gray and red-brown ink over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige, wove paper.

The good and bad, ca 1835, by Victor Adam (1801-1866).

Joseph Arnaud, Promenade de S. A. le Prince Impérial, 1800-1859, chromolithograph, partly hand-colored, on wove paper.

Cartoon on the disintegration of the Rhine Union after Napoleon's loss at the Battle of Leipzig, October 1813 In the workshop of an alchemist, Napoleon is put into a large German cauldron by the representatives of various European countries The cauldron is stoked by the Dutchman and the Briton Around the cauldron are smiling Frederick I, King of W, print maker: Thomas Rowlandson, publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, (mentioned on object), print maker: England, publisher: London, 12-Dec-1813, paper, etching, h 250 mm × w 350 mm

A Riding-House, Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730-1806, British, after Henry William Bunbury, 1750-1811, British, 1780, Hand colored etching, Sheet: 14 3/8 x 21 1/4in. (36.5 x 54cm)

Dutch cartoon, 1794, predicting ballooning in 1804. Chaotic scene as an attempt is made to get the balloon airborne. Vitriol (Sulphuric Acid) and iron nails (Spyker) are being delivered to produce hydrogen gas. Aeronautics Chemistry

Print made by John Bruce, fl. 1826, Chain Pier at Brighton, ca. 1830. Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

Allegory on the victories of the Allies in 1704; Paelteken of hundred and fable fares of the Danube, Ryn and Moselle relieved by the unwinnown heroes, which for a great covenant, and the Mondheoyd Alomse Segend. A. 1704. Allegory on the victories of the Allies on the French in the year 1704. At the top of a bust of Queen Anna surrounded by princes and army leaders of the Allies. With some detailed performances of various victories to the country and at sea. Left for a personification of the British power accompanied by the Dutch lion, on the right a personification of the unity of the Allies. At the bottom right the French Maarschalk Tallard reports and a complaining spaniard.

The Spanish bull fight - or - the Corsican matador in danger , Rulers, Clergy, Bulls, Bullfighting, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, John VI, King of Portugal, 1767-1826, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823. James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings

Print made by Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, New River Head, Islington, 1813. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Pereat, Costümbild No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Anton Elfinger -, artist

The Zenith of French Glory; - the Pinnacle of Liberty James Gillray British Publisher Hannah Humphrey British February 12, 1793

Office of the Whigs as an additional burden of Britain

5th disadvantage. / What effects of interrupted digestion. (Registered Title) | Disadvantages of a diligence trip. (IFF 25) (set of all)

The culture point of the human sex, N � 13 (Ti)

The savages let loose, or The cruel fate of the Loyalists. Cartoon shows three Natives, representing America, murdering six loyalists, four are being hung, one is about to be scalped, and the last, appealing to Fate, is about to be killed by an ax-wielding Native.

Pont Neuf, Paris May 1, 1803 Thomas Rowlandson. Pont Neuf, Paris. After Henry William Bunbury (British, Mildenhall, Suffolk 1750-1811 Keswick, Cumberland). May 1, 1803. Hand-colored etching. Rudolph Ackermann, London (active 1794-1829). Prints

James Gillray, 1757-1815, British, Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt, 1798. Etching, hand-colored.

Study for 'Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Tipu Sahib'. Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (Scottish, 1785 - 1841)

Liberation of Abbe Sicard, during the massacres of September 1792, Paris Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1749-1826). Liberation of Abbe Sicard, during the massacres of September 1792, Paris. Gouache on cut carton glued on a sheet of washed blue paper.

Resurection (sic) Men Disturbed, or a Guilty Conscience Needs no Accuser (from: Caricature, vol. 3), Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, 1794, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 8 3/8 x 15in. (21.3 x 38.1cm)

Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, A pair: H. Alken's Illustration of Modern Prophecy, or Novelty for the Year 1829, 1829. Aquatint, hand-colored.

Frederick George Byron, 1764-1794, British, Shooting Party Returning Home, 1789. Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, wove paper.

La Caricature; Les Ombres Portees, No. 5. Date/Period: 1830. Lithograph on paper. Author: Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (called J. J. Grandville).

DEBRET, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). A Colourful and Historic Journey to Brazil. 1839. 'Les rafraichissemens de l'apres diner la place du palais'. Light refreshments after lunch in the Palace square. Costumbrism. Litography.

The Cowpox Tragedy - scene the last by artist George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Funeral procession showing coffin labelled 'Vaccina aged 12 years' on which stands a golden calf; four vignettes, two on each side, present realistic scenes related to cow pox. To the memory of Vaccina who died April the First!

One of the Advantages of a Low Carriage Published 1801 England. Hand-colored etching on paper . James Gillray

No. 8/23 never - Fendee Des Tuileries. (You)

Plate 13, 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." A scene in the countryside, with a man and woman riding off in a phaeton led by two horses at right. Beggars sit beneath a tree at left, and two children hold out a hat towards the couple in the carriage.. Plate 13, 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

Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, Set of twelve with title-page: Sporting Satirist, 1834. Hand colored soft-ground etching.

Water color; Tarantella dancers, Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829, Pen and black ink and water colors on paper., Horizontal rectangle. Two couples dance in the open to the music played by a man with a guitar and a woman with a tambourine. A woman with a baby is shown at right sitting in the middle distance at a slope. Mountainous country. Framing lines. Signature: 'Gatta 1828.', Italy, 1828, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: Allegory of the defeat destruction and bankruptcy of France, humiliated by Prussia robbing her of her wealth. Coloured lithograph.

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, The Post Office, 1809. Aquatint, hand-colored.

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)

The faith of treaties exemplified or John Bull's last effort to oblige his false friends S.W.F.. British Cartoon Prints Collection , Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8477. John Bull (Symbolic character),1790-1800. , International relations,England,1790-1800.

Spain (1808). 'Recevimiento en Bayona' (Reception in Bayonne). Ferdinand VII before Napoleon and Tayllerand giving explanation about the Mutiny of Aranjuez. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Museo de Historia.

Austria, Vienna, Set design for Act II of performance The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Photo collection Government information service. Jewish special education / cartoon. undated

Muzikanten van het Amsterdamse exercitiegenootschap in 1783-1787. De Amsterdamsch Genootschap Musikanten (title on object). Draughtsman: S.G. Casten. Dating: 1795. Place: Amsterdam. Measurements: h 197 mm × w 310 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Guam.: Femmes d' umata; Alcade layson et Chasseur d' umata.. Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César, 1790-1842. Prints. 1830 - 1835. General Research Division

Daily scene in the Louvre by Samuel Ehrhart, 1862-1937, artist. Illustration shows many patrons blatantly removing paintings from walls and other art objects which they are intending on stealing and walking past museum guards at the Musée du Louvre. 1911. Caption: A recent inventory of the pictures in the Louvre showed that three hundred and twenty-three canvases were missing. Among the artists included were such masters as Boucher, Carot, Coypel, David, Millet, Vernet, Constable, Reynolds, Lawr

The Savoyard Georg Emmanuel Opitz (or OPIZ) (1775-1841). "The Savoyard". Engraving. 1813.

John Hassell, 1767-1825, British, Racing set of four: The High Mettled Racer. 3. The Hack, 1789. Aquatint, hand-colored, with engraved titles and verses with aquatinted border.

Fortune teller. Engraving. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum).

Ladies hunting, 15th century. Chromolithography based on a miniature from Ovid's Heroides (20-15 BC). Customs of the 15th century. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", por Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Cartoon on the retreat of Napoleon I Bonaparte from Russia, Jacob Smies, 1812 - 1814 drawing On the right Napoleon with curved head and a stocking on the head; On the left a group of poor musicians with a French banner on which: here Koomt / Pauwel Jonas. At the top left the fleeing fame. paper. watercolor (paint). ink pen / brush historical events and situations. historical persons

A French fete, c18th century. Artist: Unknown

How to Gammon the Deep, Ones or the Way to Overturn a Coach Ac(c)ording to Act of P(ar)l(ia)m(en)t (from: Caricature, vol. 4), Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, 1794, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 7 1/2 x 16 1/8in. (19.1 x 41cm)

No more of these hideous monuments , Monuments & memorials, Sculpture, Uncle Sam Symbolic character, Grant, Ulysses S. Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

The Pigs Possessed:-or-the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition April 18, 1807 James Gillray British King George III appears as an angry farmer driving overfed pigs over a cliff. These pigs have the faces of Whig politicians and have weakened the nation by their greedy pursuit of government posts. Farmer George (the kings nickname in real life) uses his foot to prod from office the playwright-politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who is clad as a Harlequin. The ousted chief minister, William Grenville, floats in the foreground wearing a yellow suit while resting one trotter on a bill for Catholic Emancipation, the defeat of which helped bring down his ministry. Gillray borrowed his imagery from the Gospel of Mark (5:1-20) where Jesus casts a legion of demons out of a possessed man and into a herd of swine, which then runs into the Sea of Galilee. King George is thus presented as the nations savior, and the defeated Whigs as devils.. The Pigs Possessed:-or-t

The Landsturm women are subjected to a revision in obscene cartoon, Unknown

To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved sic rollers, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel; great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax; is most respectfully dedicated by ... Wm. Hincks / Wm. Hincks, delin. et sculp.; Hincks, William, artist; Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793.; London : Publish'd as

Entry of the Great Elector into the Hague, Marriage to Luise Henriette of Orange in 1646, History of the Hohenzollerns, Brandenburg-Prussia

Drawing by Cornelis Dusart depicting a farm fair (Farmenkirmes), using black chalk, watercolor, cover colors, and graphite pencil for windows on parchment.

Les Anglois molestes et chatiees - The Englishman molested and punished - French political cartoon, 1779

Jean-Baptiste Lesueur (1749-1826). "Planting a tree of freedom". Gouache on cut cardboard stuck on a sheet of paper washed with blue. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Liberte tree, Carton Decoupe, Official Ceremony, glue, drawing, blue lava leaf, gouache, mayor, plant, French revolution, revolutionary, soldier

Election Candidates. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1807. Dimensions: 315 × 250 mm (image); 360 × 258 mm (plate); 368 × 287 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on ivory wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The Exhausted Slave Whipped. But woe to all, both old and young,/Women and men, or strong or weak,/Worn out or fresh, those gangs among, That dare the toilsome line to break! From Ameilia Opie The Black Mans Lament; or How to Make Sugar, London, 1826.

Winter face at the Kalkoven in Zwolle.

Crowd for the display window of George Humphrey in London, Theodore Lane, 1821 print A group of men and women stands for the shop window of George Humphrey, patent trader and publisher in London. The prints in the shop window are displayed in detail. They form a series of cartoons in which Caroline van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel is attacked. She had been married to her cousin for a short time in 1796, the later George IV of the United Kingdom. There are two men in the doorway behind the closed glass door. One of them, possibly Humphrey himself, holds up a caricature print. paper etching shop-window, show-window. political caricatures and satires. political caricatures and satires. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph St James's Street

New Dutch Schutters Game, 1831 - 1842 print. gameboard Pot game that has to be played with chips, tokens or other coins. In the oval midfield, decorated with crown and flags, the Groot Major on horseback, parading for his shooters. In addition, the Bureau der Schutterij in Amsterdam, below the Hoofdwacht. On the left a blazing fire, the provost on the right. Furthermore 16 boxes with shooters. Amsterdam paper etching the soldier; the soldier's life. board-games. board-games of chance

An interesting scene, on board an East-Indiaman, showing the effects of a heavy lurch, -after dinner. - Capt F.M., inv. ; G. Cruikshank, fect.. British Cartoon Prints Collection . East India Company,1810-1820. , Staterooms,1810-1820. , Passengers,1810-1820. , Falling,1810-1820.

Haarlem, Leer & Co., L. van, Dorp, HM van, New children's pictures, The story of Cinderella, verso - stamped, Sheet with 7 scenes from the fairy tale of Cinderella. A caption under each scene. Numbered top right: No. 10., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 418 mm, width 340 mm, Publication (Event), Publicatie, Nederlands - 1883, publisher, uitgever, 1872 - 1883, paper, papier, kleurlithografie (process), letterpress printing, boekdruk, printer, drukker, print maker, printmaker

Netherlands, Liberty Tree on Burgerplein in Amsterdam, 1795, verso - stamped, Oval representation of dancing around the Liberty Tree planted in the night of 5 to 6 February 1795 on the Koningsplein, then renamed Burgerplein, in Amsterdam., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 128 mm, width 99 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1795 - 1795, paper, papier, etching, hand colouring

Brothers of the Whip November 27, 1781 Thomas Rowlandson British. Brothers of the Whip. Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). November 27, 1781. Etching. Hannah Humphrey (London). Prints

Drawing, Return From The Vintage; Bartolomeo Pinelli (Roman, 1781 - 1835); Italy; pen and gray ink with watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Scene outside the Half-Moon Inn, undated. Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

The English value. (IT)

London, Tegg, Thomas, England, Rowlandson, Plump to the Devil we boldly kick'd bot Nap and his partner Joe, Cartoon on Napoleon's loss of Holland and Spain, 1813, verso - stamped, 1813. A fat Dutchman kicks Napoleon in the legs of a large devil who stands before the flames of hell. The Dutchman holds a glass and a pipe in his hands. In the background, Napoleon's brother Joseph is being chased to hell by another angry Dutchman with a pitchfork. Numbered top right: 234., print, cartoon, prints, Frederik Muller History Plates, height 248, width 350 mm, English, 1756-07-14 - 1827-04-22, print maker, printmaker, 1813-11-30 - 1813-11-30, paper, etching, etchings, hand colouring, Publication (Event), Publication, British, 1776-03-04 - 1845-04-21, publisher

Hand-coloured etching titled 'Tiddy-Doll, the Great French-Gingerbread-Baker by James Gillray (1756-1815) English caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Dated 1806

THE HAND-WRITING UPON THE WALL The hand-writing upon the wall". Estampe de James Gillray. Paris, mus�e Carnavalet.

Concert with many instruments, ancient Greece. Musicians playing lyre, kithara or zither, aulos or tibia, harp, psalterion, tambourine, cymbals, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso after a picture by Pelagio Palagi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847.

Ulriksdal June 1, 1869. N. Gyldenstolpe, Demirgian, D'Otrante, G. Gyldenstolpe, G. Bråkenhielm. Watercolor by Fritz von Dardel. Nordic

Club des Jacobins, Mirabeau presides and this great scoundrel & d. & d. (IT)

"Crown" sewing machines, Florence oil stoves are manufactured by the Florence Machine Co. Crown sewing machines are the best in the world.. "Crown" sewing machines, Florence oil stoves are manufactured by the Florence Machine Co. Crown sewing machines are the best in the world.

Jean-Paul Marat with crown of laurel leaves carried on shoulders of man around whom others are crowded; celebrating his acquittal by Revolutionary Tribunal. Etching with watercolor.Translation: Top: Marat's triumph Left: new song: there is only one/ black heart/ to be contradicted/ Marat lives/ Marat lives/ Etc. Right: Judgment of the revolutionary tribunal: it declares Paul Marat innocent and orders him to be freed immediately. Bottom: immortal defender of the people and their rights, he overthrew the nobles and the monarchy, founded equality upon the kings fall out of Civic Virtuelet us o

Rural excesses. Leaf with 2 horizontal rows with performances of drinking and dancing farmers and farmers. Carved the title in the middle of the wood block. Numbered bottom left: No. 58.

Life of George Washington, The Farmer, Lithograph by Regnier from a Painting by Stearns, Printed by Goupil & Co., 1853

Laying of a Foundation Stone, LS Lowry, 1936,

People greeting Napoleon I on his entry into Grenoble on 7 March 1815 after his return from exile on Elba. 19th French popular hand-coloured woodcut.

Meeting of The Society of Antiquaries, 1812 print Meeting of The Antiquarian Society with at the head of the table the chairman at his seat, under a bust of King George III of England. On the table various antiques and on the wall a painting with Henry VIII from England. Around the table are the members of the Society: people from the British cultural life, largely identify on the basis of the objects or writings they use. paper etching learned society, academy of sciences. caricatures (human types). historical person (with NAME) - historical person (with NAME) portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait

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