Vintage Satirical Illustrations

A series of vintage engravings featuring grotesque characters and satirical scenes, showcasing humor and social commentary through whimsical depictions.

'The Knapsack, The Hat, and the Horn', 1901. Artist: Edward Henry Wehnert.

Thumbs Down by artist Will Crawford (1869-1944). Illustration shows a skeleton labelled 'Death' as a gladiator standing over a 'Sick Person' before giving the death stroke. The skeleton looks to the spectators seated in a section identified as 'Anti-Vivisectionist', who, holding their pets close, give the 'Thumbs Down' signal. The emblem on their banner shows a hand about to snuff the flame on a lamp labelled 'Progress'.

Window of the facade, vintage engraved illustration. Paris - Auguste VITU 1890

In Greek mythology, Python (Greek: Πύθων, gen.: Πύθωνος) was the earth-dragon of Delphi, always represented in Greek sculpture and vase-paintings as a serpent. He presided at the Delphic oracle, which existed in the cult center for his mother, Gaia, 'Earth', Pytho being the place name that was substituted for the earlier Krisa. Hellenes considered the site to be the center of the earth, represented by a stone, the omphalos or navel, which Python guarded.

Moliere’s chair, in Pezenas, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836.

Scythians from the Crimea, Russia, 4th century, Scythians are the name given to some of the equestrian nomadic peoples who inhabited the Eurasian steppes north of the Black Sea in what is now southern Russia from about the 8th century BC, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Europe

Kurdish Bandit, Turkey, Illustration, Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers, by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

Karl Friedrich Abel (1725-1787) German musician in England, portrayed with a viola di gamba

The Forcible Abduction, symbolic copperplate engraving by Jeronimus Hopfer, 16th century, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

Hannong earthenware made in Strasbourg and Haguenau, Ceramic Museum of Sevres, vintage engraving. Hannong earthenware made in Strasbourg and Haguenau, Ceramic Museum of Sevres, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1876. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679855

Le Stryge, The grotesque at the Paris Notre Dame cathedral, France

The tree of liberty,-with, the devil tempting John Bull Js. Gy. inv. & ft.. British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress, Exhibited: Gillray and the Art of Caricature. Fox, Charles James,1749-1806. , John Bull (Symbolic character),1790-1800. , Politics & government,Great Britain,1780-1800. , Reform,Great Britain,1780-1800.

SIN DOCUMENTAR PERSONAJES SIGLO XIX/XX. Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies. MARIA CRISTINA DE PARMA. MARIA CRISTINA DE NAPOLES. ISABEL II REINA DE ESPAÑA (1830-1904).

Vase by Francysk Skaryna, woodcut, 1518, 1486-154, Russia, St. Petersburg, Russian National Library,

Woodblock engraving depicting Jonah being spewed up by the whale. In the middle of the picture he is shown falling overboard and being swallowed. Dated 16th century

Man being eaten by a sea serpent. After a facsimile from Olaus Magnus: De Gentibus Septentrionalibus, 1555. From The Universe or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little, published 1882.

Sweepers, vintage engraving. Sweepers, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660625

Lucy escaping whence no fugitive can be brought back by jumping overboard from the steamer. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's cabin. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery.

The pleasures of the water, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846

Menetrier, Shepherd, Shouter of wine, Juggler, Showing off her privileged charter any officer of the treasury, Merchant ambulant forget, Chiffonier, Dairy, Monkey showman, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846

Cartoon on the French Revolution 1789. Contemporary German stitch

The Knights of the Round Table, vintage engraving. The Knights of the Round Table, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660298

Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849 - 1918). Loups de Mer (Shrimp Fishermen), 1898. Photo relief process (colored with aid of a stencil) on wove paper. Sheet: 405 mm x 308 mm (15.94 in. x 12.13 in.).

Relief on Trajan's Column shows the Germanic bodyguard of the later Caesars, digitally enhanced reproduction of an original print from the 19th century

Cartoon - Over the Moat !. John Collins (1917-2007)

Trojans Arch, Ancona ; Tasso in prison ; The Bridge of Sighs , Memorial arches, Cells Rooms & spaces, Prisons, Bridges

'Ancient Tablet, Near Holborn Bridge', London, 19th century.Artist: James Tingle

Festival of wine growers, Vevey, End of the procession, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1843.

A picturesque shop in the middle ages, vintage engraving. A picturesque shop in the middle ages, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1873. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679443

Engraving depicting a man and woman in stocks. Dated 15th Century

Painting Salon 1861, Chamber music, by Mr. Ph. Rousseau, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861.

The monument of Abbe Epee in one of the chapels of Saint-Roch in Paris, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842

His Riches Couldn't Save Him, Antique Skeletons of Amsterdam

The roller coaster of the Barriere du Roule in 1816, Paris. France. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Norman ship, after a manuscript of the Royal Library, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1844.

A woodcut engraving depicting the use of a crew jack to lift a heavy door from its hinges. Dated 17th century

Virgil's Revenge, woodcut from the 16th century by Virgil Solis, also known as Virgil Solis

DANZANTE CON PLAQUETAS SONORAS. CULTURA COLIMENSE. - COLECCION DIEGO RIVERA. ARTE PRECOLOMBINO DEL OCCIDENTE DE MEXICO, LAMINA 75. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Gothic Prince in Triumphal Procession, relief from the Victory Column of Theodosius, destroyed in 1695, after the Battle of Adrianople, 378, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Normans from the Empire of William the Conqueror, 1066, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Cartoon - Alberta Sets an Example Arthur George Racey (1870-1941)

Caricature of a Man in a Voluminous Cloak, Carrying a Walking Stick, Seen from Behind. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696-1770 Madrid). Dimensions: 7 5/16 x 4 13/16 in. (18.5 x 12.2 cm). Date: 1760 (). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Heaume and crest of Edward, the Black Prince, in Canterbury Cathedral, 1924. Artist: Unknown

Tomb Thumb - hero of a 16th century nursery tale - is on the verge of becoming a giant's breakfast, but fortunately succeeds in avoiding this fate...

On May des Gobelins, Print of Sebastien Le Clerc, vintage engraving. On May des Gobelins, Print of Sebastien Le Clerc, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660626

Starting with the California Gold Rush in the late 19th century, the United Statesparticularly the West Coast statesimported large numbers of Chinese migrant laborers. Early Chinese immigrants worked as gold miners, and later on large labor projects, such as the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Chinese migrant workers encountered considerable prejudice in the United States, especially by the people who occupied the lower layers in white society, because Chinese 'coolies' were used as a scapegoat for depressed wage levels by politicians and labor leaders. In the 1870s and 1880s various legal discriminatory measures were taken against the Chinese. These laws, in particular the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, were aimed at restricting further immigration from China. The laws were later repealed by the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943.

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned sic since my Deliverance out of Captivity' is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier on the South Asian island now best known as Sri Lanka and provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Ceylonese life. Knox spent 19 years on Ceylon after being taken prisoner by King Rajasimha II.

Gentlemen of 1625-1630, for after Abraham Bosse, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857

Using bellows to increase the draught in a furnace for refining copper. From 'De la pirotechnia' by Vannoccio Biriguccio (Venice, 1540).

Sir John Mandeville (d.1371) on his travels.

Caprice guitar by J J. Grandville, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857.

España. El proletariado español en marcha. Dibujo de Helios Gómez publicado en la revista Crónica, octubre de 1936.

Warlock, drawing by Count Franz Pocci, 1807-1876

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned sic since my Deliverance out of Captivity' is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier on the South Asian island now best known as Sri Lanka and provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Ceylonese life. Knox spent 19 years on Ceylon after being taken prisoner by King Rajasimha II.

Illustration for a 1880 edition of Donkeyskin (Peau d'Ane), a French literary fairy-tale written in verse by Charles Perrault. It was first published in 1695

Good and evil spirits lead the soul to the court of the dead, fresco painting from an Etruscan tomb, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date not known

Inca warrior, painting on an ancient Peruvian vase, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

'Is John Smith within ' 'Yes, that he is.' 'Can he set a shoe ' 'Ay, marry, too.' Here a nail, there a nail, Tick, tack, too !

Man with spade and cart. Wilhelm Morgner (Germany, Soest, 1891-1917). Germany, 1912. Prints; linocuts. Linocut

Woodblock print of the fuse of a cannon being lit. Dated 16th Century

The Resurrection: Waking Up. Spencer Stanley (1891-1959). Oil on canvas. Painted in 1945. Triptych - centre panel 30 x 20in, side panels 20 x 30in.

History. Asia. Chinese ambassador. Colored engraving. Iconographic Enclyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art. 19th century. Author: HENRY WINKLES. Johan George Heck.

One of the atrocious methods of killing slaves pictured by Stedman; Hanging them up by a hook to die of thirst and famine.. Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797. Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. Photographs, Illustrations. 1910. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Slaves, Punishment & torture, Suriname, Hooks

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot sees Scrunch, the bulldog, in a glass case at the butcher's shop. "Fronting me, in a glass case, stood Scrunch." Date: 1895

Cartoon - The Ides of March. John Collins (1917-2007)

Favorsky, Vladimir Andreevich (1886-1964) State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 1945 Woodcut Modern Russia History

Calavera of Don Juan Tenorio -- a version of the legend of Don Juan. The stone statue on the right refers to the statue which comes to life and drags Don Juan to hell. Date: circa 1900s

Jacquet-Robillard Seeder. From Domestic Life, vintage engraving, 1880.

Big Ben and his little brothers Date: 1887

"50 Years of US Art" Exhibition. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Engraving depicting Scythians, a group of ancient tribes of nomadic warriors who originally lived in what is now southern Siberia. Dated 18th century

The pleasures of the water, vintage engraving. The pleasures of the water, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673385

Crown, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857

The Hercules of the Union, slaying the great dragon of secession 1861. Currier and Ives.

Crown, vintage engraving. Crown, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673945

The Egyptian Trinity, from a Column at El-Karnak, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume I, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1894

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, image of the Mozart family with father Leopold and sister Nannerl or Maria Anna and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, composer of the Viennese Classical period

Joseph Banks 1743-1820 British scientist who was part of James Cook's voyage to Australia. Dated 1795. Shown here in a cartoon by James Gillray depicted as a butterfly.

Headpiece: Time and tide wait for no man. Dated 19th century

And So Was His Grandfather, Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, 1797-1798, Museum Berggruen, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Pithos. Pithos is the Greek name of a large storage container used by Mediterranean civilisations in the Neolithic, Bronze Age and subsequent Iron Age, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork

Libra represented on an Egyptian bas-relief, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Illustration depicting a medieval English armourer at work

At home, cover illustration of the weekly newspaper in 1891, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century model, exact date of presentation unknown, historical, two angels holding a sign with the inscription 'HOME, 'surrounded by a decorative wreath

Apollo with his bow, having slain the Python. Engraving by W. Grainger, ca. 1790 ().

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