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The OP spectacles / Cruikshank del., British Cartoon Print

The OP spectacles / Cruikshank del., British Cartoon Print

Satire showing head of Clifford with two circles representing huge spectacles, "Old house old prices & no private boxes" and "Old house old prices & no pigeon holes," over his eyes. Each circle contains a symme... More

Sketch - cartoon for the enrichment of an oblong window-space

Sketch - cartoon for the enrichment of an oblong window-space

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century - Picryl description.

Greeting Card, Anonymous, Victorian Greeting Card

Greeting Card, Anonymous, Victorian Greeting Card

Picryl description: Public domain image of a manuscript from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Puck magazine cover - Both satisfied / F.M. Hutchins.

Puck magazine cover - Both satisfied / F.M. Hutchins.

Print shows a female figure labeled "Rep. Party" trying to choose from among three suitors labeled "McKinley, Reed, [and] Harrison"; another female figure labeled "Dem. Party" is walking in the background with ... More

She is getting too feeble to hold them / J.S. Pughe.

She is getting too feeble to hold them / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows an elderly woman labeled "Spain", possibly María Cristina, Queen Regent, struggling to maintain control of two diminutive figures, one labeled "Cuba", armed with a gun and sword, and the other label... More

Coloured drawings from BL Arundel 117, ff. 143v-144

Coloured drawings from BL Arundel 117, ff. 143v-144

Coloured drawings as part of a longer series, in Martinus Polonus's Chronica. Image taken from ff. 143v-144 of Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's Vaticin... More

Unto them that hath / J.S. Pughe.

Unto them that hath / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows an elephant labeled "G.O.P." holding a tambourine labeled "Stand Patism" and handing out free baskets labeled "Tariff Graft" containing a turkey, duck, or chicken to ragged figures labeled "C... More

Puck magazine cover - The Cuban melodrama / C.J. Taylor.

Puck magazine cover - The Cuban melodrama / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows Uncle Sam in the role of the "Noble Hero" in a melodrama, defending a young woman labeled "Cuba" from the "Heavy Villain" labeled "Spain". Caption: The Noble Hero (to the Heavy Villain) Stand back... More

Symbol of St. Luke: ox, with (13) [unfruitful] olive tree, (14) man sitting [at the lowest place] at a laid table, (15) hand [of the father] giving hand [of the prodigal son] a sum of money [the son's portion], (16) plough, poor Lazarus and dog, (17) head of Jew, putting
out his tongue, (18) two persons (one wearing a Jew-hat) standing under the cross [with sign INRI and three nails, without Christ]

Symbol of St. Luke: ox, with (13) [unfruitful] olive tree, (14) man si...

In artistic depictions, St. Luke is often shown holding an ox or with an ox nearby, as a symbol of his association with the Gospel of Luke and his devotion to Jesus and the Holy Family. The image of St. Luke wi... More

The next candidate for statehood / O'Neill.

The next candidate for statehood / O'Neill.

Illustration shows Columbia handing a dress labeled "Statehood" to a young woman labeled "New Mexico." Illus. in: Puck, v. 50, no. 1294 (1901 December 18), cover. Copyright 1901 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Cornelis Bloemaert - Peasants Drinking, from the series Sixteen Peasant Subjects

Cornelis Bloemaert - Peasants Drinking, from the series Sixteen Peasan...

Cornelis Bloemaert (Dutch, Utrecht 1603–?1684 Rome) Public domain photograph of 17th century Dutch drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ontwerp voor een politieke spotprent

Ontwerp voor een politieke spotprent

Picryl description: Public domain image of a garden, gardening, agriculture, plants, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Joost van Sassen - Blad met karikaturen van dwergen en de windhandel, 1720

Joost van Sassen - Blad met karikaturen van dwergen en de windhandel, ...

Blad met karikaturen van dwergachtige figuren in de windhandel met een verwijzing in de onderschriften naar Vianen. Vier afzonderlijke platen genummerd 5-8 op één blad afgedrukt. Plaat 5: een dwerg in kamerjas ... More

Franse spotprent op de kroning van Willem III, 1689

Franse spotprent op de kroning van Willem III, 1689

Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Rowlandson - A Couple at Table with Servants. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson - A Couple at Table with Servants. Georgian era 1714...

After Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and water... More

The Female frizzler, British Cartoon Print

The Female frizzler, British Cartoon Print

British cartoon showing woman, seated on huge hairdo of another woman, as she works on the hairdo. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Spiritual Lovers, 18th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Spiritual Lovers, 18th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 -...

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Spotprent op de Hollandse en Zeeuwse edelen die prins Willem IV het markiezaat van Veere en Vlissingen betwisten, ca. 1733

Spotprent op de Hollandse en Zeeuwse edelen die prins Willem IV het ma...

Public domain scan of 17th-18th century dutch print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Titelpagina van het pamflet: Afbeeldinge vanden Ouden ende Nieuwen-tijt Waer met Orpheus Wandelt / Spreekt / Singt ende Speelt, 1625

Titelpagina van het pamflet: Afbeeldinge vanden Ouden ende Nieuwen-tij...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, engraving, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Spotprent op Jacques Colaert, kapercommandant van Duinkerken, 1636

Spotprent op Jacques Colaert, kapercommandant van Duinkerken, 1636

Spotprent op Jacques Colaert, Vlaamse kapercommandant of admiraal van Duinkerken. De admiraal staande aan land, in de verte wordt zijn schip tijdens een gevecht met Johan Evertsen tot zinken gebracht, 20 februa... More

[Cassiopeia constellation depicted as Cassiopeia in chair, with key to stars' names at left and new star or nova at right]

[Cassiopeia constellation depicted as Cassiopeia in chair, with key to...

Illus. in: Opera omnia / Tycho Brahe. Francofurti : Impensis I.G. Schoweteri, 1648, p. 236. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 33.

Spotprent op de bisschop van Munster, 1674

Spotprent op de bisschop van Munster, 1674

Spotprent op de bisschop van Munster na het sluiten van de vrede met Engeland door de Republiek op 19 februari 1674 en het gevangen nemen van prins von Fürstenberg op 16 februari 1674. De bisschop in een kinder... More

Luxury, 18th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Luxury, 18th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

The coffee-house patriots, or news, from St. Eustatia / H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; W. Dickinson excudt., British Cartoon Print

The coffee-house patriots, or news, from St. Eustatia / H. Bunbury Esq...

Print shows interior view of a coffeehouse, presumably in London, where several man of commerce appear disgruntled at the news of the successful campaign to capture Saint Eustatius, a port used by British merch... More

William Humphrey - Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern. Caricature, England.

William Humphrey - Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern. Caricat...

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the year 1770 / Bute & Wilkes invent. ; Mercurius & Appeles fect., British Cartoon Print

Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the ye...

Detail showing convicts consisting of lords, esquires, and attorneys, in chains, boarding ship, for transport from England to Georgia, under the reign of King George III. Detail of British Museum Cartoon Collec... More

Swearing a Bastard Child!, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Swearing a Bastard Child!, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion / Js. Gy. design et fecit., British Cartoon Print

A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion / Js. Gy. design et fecit....

Caricature of George IV as the Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leaning back in an arm-chair, at a table covered with remains of a meal, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a ... More

Tom Paine's nightly pest, James Gillray

Tom Paine's nightly pest, James Gillray

Paine lies asleep on straw on a ramshackle wooden bedstead, covered by his coat. He wears a cap and lies diagonally from left to right, facing the spectator. On the head of his bed are drawn the profile heads, ... More

Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1

Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's ...

Charles Grignion, I (British, London baptised 1721–1810 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and ... More

The heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial,... / Js. Gy., desn. et fect., British Cartoon Print

The heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial,... / Js. Gy., desn. et ...

"The interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal crowded with figures. Charlotte Corday (right) stands at the bar, a raised circular stone platform, her wrists linked by a chain, addressing her judges (left), who li... More

Inscribing a tombstone, Thomas Rowlandson

Inscribing a tombstone, Thomas Rowlandson

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th cent... More

The night mare, British Cartoon Print

The night mare, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows a scantily clad woman asleep on a bed, a little man sitting on her chest pulling back her see-through covers, as one of her arms hangs to the floor near a chamber pot written on it... "Source of N... More

John Bull fighting the French single handed / P.F.L.B. fecit., British Cartoon Print

John Bull fighting the French single handed / P.F.L.B. fecit., British...

Print shows John Bull rapping a French soldier on the head with a cudgel, stomping on a French officer with his right foot, and using his left foot to kick the French nobility out of England and back to France ... More

The Surprising Irish Giant of St. James's Street

The Surprising Irish Giant of St. James's Street

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Drie drinkende mannen - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication

Drie drinkende mannen - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication

Public domain photograph of artwork in the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Acute Pain, 18th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Acute Pain, 18th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

George Moutard Woodward - A Travelling Tutor and Monkey Child, William Holland

George Moutard Woodward - A Travelling Tutor and Monkey Child, William...

Public domain scan of 18th-century genre print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buonaparte at Rome giving audience in state / I.Ck., British Cartoon Print

Buonaparte at Rome giving audience in state / I.Ck., British Cartoon P...

Cartoon shows Napoleon, wearing tattered clothing, seated on a low throne; kneeling before him is a pope placing the keys of St. Peter at his feet as he kicks the crown off the popes head, saying "I say remembe... More

An escape a la Francois! - Public domain dedication image

An escape a la Francois! - Public domain dedication image

"A burlesque representation of the flight to Varennes; the royal family in a two-wheeled carriage drawn (left to right) by four galloping horses with two postilions..." (Source: George)

Asao Jujiro as a Cake Seller and Ikushima Shingoro as Bushi (Samurai) Seated on the Peddler's Lacquer Box Containing His Wares

Asao Jujiro as a Cake Seller and Ikushima Shingoro as Bushi (Samurai) ...

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print, 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Spotprent op de mislukte inval van de pretendent Jacobus Frans Eduard, 1715

Spotprent op de mislukte inval van de pretendent Jacobus Frans Eduard,...

Spotprent op de mislukte inval van de pretendent Jacobus Frans Eduard in Schotland in 1715. Een draaimolen met paaarden met op het blad onder de voorstelling een vers in twee kolommen.

Captain Charles Vane - Public domain dedication image

Captain Charles Vane - Public domain dedication image

Illus. in: The History and lives of all the most notorious pirates, and their crews. London, 1725. Reference copy may be in LOT 4248. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tr... More

William Hogarth - Characters and caricaturas

William Hogarth - Characters and caricaturas

Subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode" with a group of naturalistic heads in profile and, below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e. "characters") and caricatures ... More

Whipping John of Islington, British Cartoon Print

Whipping John of Islington, British Cartoon Print

Print shows an interior view of a room in which a man holds a bare-bottomed woman with a pained look on her face on his back as another woman holds up the woman's dress and points to her naked backside; a man, ... More

Legendary Strongman Sakata Kinpira (Kintoki) Drinking Sake

Legendary Strongman Sakata Kinpira (Kintoki) Drinking Sake

Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711–1785) Edo period (1615–1868) Public domain scan of Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e, of Edo period, Tokugawa rule, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions i... More

A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y] / drawn by Experience ; engrav'd by Sorrow., British Cartoon Print

A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y] / drawn by Experience ...

Print shows a man chained to wedlock carrying a woman on his back, her breasts exposed, she holds a cup labeled "gin" and toasts "My Bucks Health", and according to a pig in a pen, "She is as Drunk as David's S... More

Beautys lot - Public domain portrait engraving

Beautys lot - Public domain portrait engraving

Head-and-shoulders skeleton of a woman with a large, elaborate hairstyle. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: Hair, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Sk... More

Britain, America, at length be friends ...

Britain, America, at length be friends ...

Print shows America, as a Native woman, shaking hands with Britannia with the goddess Concord standing between them holding a globe and an olive branch. Ships in a busy port are in the background, and a lion, l... More

The Whitehall pump. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

The Whitehall pump. Book illustration from Library of Congress, Britis...

Print shows Lord North pumping water from a water fountain topped with the head of George III onto the prostrate bodies of Britannia and a Native figure representing America. Several ministers and judges look o... More

The death of Warren / M inv. ; Norman sc.

The death of Warren / M inv. ; Norman sc.

Print shows Joseph Warren on bended knee, right hand over chest, left hand on rifle for support, after being mortally wounded during the battle of Bunker Hill, three soldiers stand nearby. Illus. in: The battl... More

The conference between the brothers how to get rich, British Cartoon Print

The conference between the brothers how to get rich, British Cartoon P...

Print shows Admiral Richard Howe and General William Howe seated at a table discussing how to profit from the war in America. The Devil stands between them and answers their question, "... [H]ow shall we get ri... More

The taking of Miss Mud I'land, British Cartoon Print

The taking of Miss Mud I'land, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a female figure as the Mud Island fortress, Fort Mifflin, with two flags on her bonnet, astride a cannon firing on the British warship "Isis"; also show the "Somerset", "Roebuck", "Eagle", and the "... More

The old sow in Distress, or the country parsons return from tithing, British Cartoon Print

The old sow in Distress, or the country parsons return from tithing, B...

Cartoon showing an obese parson on horseback, holding a pig and a chicken. Forms part of: British cartoon Prints collection (Library of Congress).

The allies - par nobile fratrum!

The allies - par nobile fratrum!

Print shows George III sharing a bone with a Native chief. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The British lion engaging four powers, British Cartoon Print

The British lion engaging four powers, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a lion confronting a spaniel, representing Spain, a fighting cock, representing France, a rattlesnake, representing America, and a pug dog, representing Holland. Catalogue of prints and drawings in... More

Spotprent op de paniek onder de patriotten na het herstel van stadhouder Willem V, 1787

Spotprent op de paniek onder de patriotten na het herstel van stadhoud...

Public domain scan of 17-18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The raree show. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

The raree show. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Ca...

"The trial of Hastings in Westminster Hall is travestied as a raree show in a booth..." (Source: George) [Dent]. This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires pre... More

The fall of Phaeton, British Cartoon Print, James Gillray

The fall of Phaeton, British Cartoon Print, James Gillray

"The Prince of Wales falls headlong, but gracefully, from his high phaeton, and is about to land on Mrs. Fitzherbert, who lies face downwards on the ground, on hands and knees, her petticoats over her head, lea... More

Abolition of the slave trade, or the man the master, British Cartoon Print

Abolition of the slave trade, or the man the master, British Cartoon P...

Illustration shows the reversal of roles for slaves and slave masters, with former slaves now in the role of the slave master. No known restrictions on publication. Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collect... More

Behold, he prayeth, British Cartoon Print

Behold, he prayeth, British Cartoon Print

"Thurlow (right), in profile to the right, kneels in prayer at a table on which the head of the mace is visible..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and ... More

Il faut faire 3 choses - A drawing of three men standing next to each other

Il faut faire 3 choses - A drawing of three men standing next to each ...

Print shows figures of the estates general; a member of the clergy and a nobleman each place a hand on short pillar labeled "Je tien mon pied de bœuf"; a peasant, representing the third estate, places both of h... More

Journée memorable du 6 Octobre 1789

Journée memorable du 6 Octobre 1789

Print shows members of the Gardes du Corps who had been disarmed, joined by the National Guard, and the market-women of Paris who had marched on Versailles in the preceding days, now making the return trip to P... More

Smelling out a rat; or the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations", British Cartoon Print

Smelling out a rat; or the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his ...

Print shows Richard Price seated at a desk, he turns to look over his right shoulder at a vision of an enormous Edmund Burke, his spectacles, nose, and hands emerge from the haze, a crown in one hand and a cros... More

Spotprent op William Pitt de Jonge, 1791, James Gillray

Spotprent op William Pitt de Jonge, 1791, James Gillray

Spotprent op William Pitt de Jonge uit 1791. Pitt als een paddestoel groeiend uit de kroon op een mesthoop.

The impeachment, or "The father of the gang turned Kings evidence", British Cartoon Print

The impeachment, or "The father of the gang turned Kings evidence", Br...

Print shows Edmund Burke standing behind and with his hands on the heads of Richard B. Sheridan and Charles James Fox who bow before him over a railing, perhaps before Parliament. Burke says, "Behold the abetto... More

"The rights of man; or Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown, for a new pair of revolution-breeches, British Cartoon Print

"The rights of man; or Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking...

"Tom Paine, lean, and grotesquely caricatured, crouches, kneeling on one knee, to apply his tape-measure to a gigantic crown standing on the ground, the greater part of which is cut off by the right margin of t... More

The abolition of the slave trade Or the inhumanity of dealers in human flesh exemplified in Captn. Kimber's treatment of a young Negro girl of 15 for her virjen (sic) modesty., British Cartoon Print

The abolition of the slave trade Or the inhumanity of dealers in human...

Print shows sailor on a slave ship suspending an African girl by her ankle from a rope over a pulley. Captain John Kimber stands on the left with a whip in his hand. Attributed to I. Cruikshank in BM CPPS. Cat... More

Frederick William - L'enjambee imperiale

Frederick William - L'enjambee imperiale

Print shows Catherine II, Empress of Russia, bare-breasted, holding a scepter and sphere, taking a large step from a piece of land on the right labeled "Russie" to a crescent moon atop a steeple or minaret labe... More

Spotprent op de Franse Revolutie, 1792, Thomas Rowlandson

Spotprent op de Franse Revolutie, 1792, Thomas Rowlandson

Spotprent op de Franse Revolutie, 1792. Centraal de personificatie van de Franse Republiek gezeten op een stoel wankel gebalanceerd bovenop de brokstukken van wet, religie, order etc. Hieromheen kleinere scènes... More

William Blake - [Aged Ignorance]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

William Blake - [Aged Ignorance]. Book illustration from Library of Co...

Engraving by Wm. Blake. Illus. in: Gates of Paradise, v. 2, pl. 11. Reference copy may be in shelflist. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Allegory; Publ.; Aged.

Spotprent op het vertrek van prins Willem V, 1795

Spotprent op het vertrek van prins Willem V, 1795

Public domain image of Dutch print, maritime landscape, ship, sea, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan / Js. Gy. d: et f:, British Cartoon Print

Lady Godina's rout; - or - Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan / Js. Gy. ...

A fashionable crowd playing cards at two tables. In the foreground, four people playing the game Pope-Joan. One of the women is wearing a loose fitting semi-transparent dress with her breasts exposed. Behind he... More

The dissolution; or The alchymist producing an ætherial representation / Js Gy, des. et fect., British Cartoon Print

The dissolution; or The alchymist producing an ætherial representation...

"Pitt as an alchemist, but dressed as usual, sits in his laboratory blowing a furnace with bellows formed of a royal crown..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Pol... More

Treason!!! / designed & etch'd by Rd. Newton., British Cartoon Print

Treason!!! / designed & etch'd by Rd. Newton., British Cartoon Print

A stout, smiling John Bull directs a blast from his rear-end toward a poster of King George III tacked to a wall. The image of the king looks suprised. On the left, the head of William Pitt exclaims, "That is T... More

Member of the riding house at Paris, delivering an harangue from the shoulders of a French citizen, British Cartoon Print

Member of the riding house at Paris, delivering an harangue from the s...

Print shows a member of the new French aristocracy wearing a Phrygian or Liberty cap with circular emblem (Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité) riding on the back of a French citizen; he implores, "Messrs. of the me... More

Isaac Cruikshank - The Irish bull broke loose, British Cartoon Print

Isaac Cruikshank - The Irish bull broke loose, British Cartoon Print

Print shows the "Irish Bull" tossing William Pitt into the air and about to do the same to Lord Dundas who runs to the left; on the far right, those opposed to Pitt's "Union Bill" cheer on the bull, "Go it my B... More

Isaac Cruikshank - That accounts for it / I.C., British Cartoon Print

Isaac Cruikshank - That accounts for it / I.C., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a number of men and women each with a particular problem that seems to be troubling them, they contrive a solution which leads to the remark, "that accounts for it." "Folio's of caracatures lent ou... More

A return from a march or a false alarm in a country village!! / Woodward del ; Cruikshanks sp., British Cartoon Print

A return from a march or a false alarm in a country village!! / Woodwa...

Print shows a group of British citizens mustered in response to an alarm that the French were attacking England which proved to be false; they complain of soiled, torn, or lost clothing, and one reads a list of... More

Kentucky Tonic Bitters. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Kentucky Tonic Bitters. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Patent medicine label. LOT subdivision subject: Caricatures and cartoons. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Lithograph by Louisville Steam Lith. Co. Caption card tracings: A/P/P Index;... More

Voorstellingen van Indiase asceten die boete doen

Voorstellingen van Indiase asceten die boete doen

Blad met vier voorstellingen van Indiase asceten die religieuze rituelen uitvoeren en boete doen. Onder elke voorstelling een onderschrift in het Frans. Rechtsboven genummerd: 106.

Waltzer au mouchoir, James Gillray

Waltzer au mouchoir, James Gillray

A couple dance in an assembly-room. The man, active and disheveled, smaller than his immensely fat partner, holds the ends of a large spotted handkerchief, since it is impossible to grasp her waist. In the back... More

George Moutard Woodward - Simple Bodily Pain, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

George Moutard Woodward - Simple Bodily Pain, Thomas Rowlandson. Georg...

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

--Affairs. The sweet prospect behind us, or The outs in office, British Cartoon Print

--Affairs. The sweet prospect behind us, or The outs in office, Britis...

Print shows rear views of the Prince of Wales, Maria Fitzherbert, Charles James Fox, Lord North, Edmund Burke, a prospective Lord Chancellor, and Richard B. Sheridan, with buttocks exposed, defecating. On the w... More

George Moutard Woodward - Desire, 18th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

George Moutard Woodward - Desire, 18th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Geo...

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Scene in Chatham Square - by a spectator

Scene in Chatham Square - by a spectator

Cartoon shows a duel between Saul, who has the head of a donkey, and Stoningham in Chatham Square. Both men sit on horseback at a "distance [of] 2 rods," while three other man standing between them bet on the o... More

The Farmers toast, British Cartoon Print

The Farmers toast, British Cartoon Print

British cartoon showing six fat farmers eating and drinking at a table. The farmers are 'monopolists', accused of holding corn in hopes of a still higher price. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collectio... More

Fashion, 19th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Fashion, 19th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

University, 19th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

University, 19th century, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

The first Kiss this Ten Years! - or - the meeting of Britannia & Citizen François, British Cartoon Print

The first Kiss this Ten Years! - or - the meeting of Britannia & Citiz...

A tall, thin, French officer kissing a fat, richly dressed, seated Britannia. His hat and sword lay on the carpet. Britannia's shield and trident rest on the wall behind her chair. Above them are portraits of G... More

A Trip to Gretna Green, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

A Trip to Gretna Green, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

French invasion - or - Buonaparte landing in Great-Britain, British Cartoon Print

French invasion - or - Buonaparte landing in Great-Britain, British Ca...

Cartoon showing Napoleon and his army, on seashore, fleeing from English soldiers with a British flag and two cannons on a low sandy cliff. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress)

Samuel William Fores - A Naked Truth, or Nipping Frost, Charles Williams

Samuel William Fores - A Naked Truth, or Nipping Frost, Charles Willia...

After (?) Charles Williams (British, active 1797–1830) Public domain scan of 18th century artwork depicting a person and landscape background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

To his royal highness Fredrick Duke of York, this plate of Satan holding th prepondrence of power; or, Bounaparte's threat, is most humbly inscribed, by E. Sanders, British Cartoon Print

To his royal highness Fredrick Duke of York, this plate of Satan holdi...

Print shows Satan holding a balance to which, on one end is attached a hot-air balloon with a bishop, possibly the Duke of York, and another man standing on top, its lightness has skewed the balance to end over... More

The ghost of a guinea! or the country banker's surprise!! / Woodward, delin., British Cartoon Print

The ghost of a guinea! or the country banker's surprise!! / Woodward, ...

Print shows a banker astonished by a guinea coin with King George III on it. The banker says, "Surely my eyes do not deceive me--it certainly must be a Guinea!--I declare I have not seen such a thing since I ha... More

The king of Brobdingnag and Gulliver, British Cartoon Print, James Gillray

The king of Brobdingnag and Gulliver, British Cartoon Print, James Gil...

King George III and Queen Charlotte seated on chairs of state, watch a small rectangular tank in which Napoleon as Gulliver sails his boat. Lord Salisbury stands behind king's chair. Four princesses and three p... More

Free Opinions on The Pay of Young Roscius. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Free Opinions on The Pay of Young Roscius. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Le pied de nez de Milord Pit - Public domain dedication image

Le pied de nez de Milord Pit - Public domain dedication image

Cartoon shows Napoleon I, wearing laurel wreath and ermine robe, pushing down one side of scale with his sword, which lifts two frightened monarchs, on the other side, off the ground; in the background stands a... More

A Sailor's Marriage, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

A Sailor's Marriage, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

National contrasts or Bulky and Boney / etch'd by Roberts., British Cartoon Print

National contrasts or Bulky and Boney / etch'd by Roberts., British Ca...

Print shows, on the left, a plump, "bulky" Englishman smoking a pipe while seated at a table laden with food and drink, on his left a cornucopia overflows with coins, and under the table is a dog with collar la... More

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