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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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Ontwerp voor een politieke spotprent

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

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...

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

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).

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

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 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...

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 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

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

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

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

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 Surprising Irish Giant of St. James's Street

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

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

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

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,...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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", 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 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

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. 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 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

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. ...

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

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

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.

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

--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. Geo...

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

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

Pope Joe Receiving a Treat of Spanish Olives. Georgian era 1714 - 1737

Love and beauty--Sartjee the Hottentot Venus, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Sarah Baartman, a South African woman known as the Hottentot Venus, mostly naked, holding a long pole and smoking a pipe. A cupid sits on her exaggerated derriere saying "Take care of your hearts." ... More

The Honey Moon (The English Dance of Death, plate 13)

A high wind in the park! / J. Baker fect., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a strong wind blowing down men, women, and children, catching up dresses, hats, and umbrellas, and tearing limbs from trees. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Cartoon Attacking Frederick and Helen Douglass

Racist cartoon attacking Frederick Douglass for his marriage to Helen Pitts. This cartoon is an example of the furor the marriage evoked.

Spotprent op de schrijver en uitgever Antony Cramer, 1825

Spotprent op de Amsterdamse schrijver en uitgever Antony Cramer, 1825. Cramer staat achter een boekenstal genaamd 'Veelweter: Kramer in Boekwerken'. Een duivel neemt Cramer in de arm. Op een vlag staat 'Prullar... More

Vrijheid van ministeriële verantwoordelijkheid, 1828-1830

Drinkende mannen in een herberg, één ligt dronken op de grond. Onderdeel van een groep van vier spotprenten op de Belgische petitiën voor vrijheid van onderwijs, drukpers en ministeriële verantwoordelijkheid, 1828-1830.

The aristocracy of color - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed in stone: J. Cn. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

United States slave trade, 1830 - Public domain engraving

An abolitionist print possibly engraved in 1830, but undocumented aside from the letterpress text which appears on an accompanying sheet. The text reads: "United States' slave trade, 1830. The Copper Plate from... More

Spotprent op de intocht van koning Leopold I in Brussel, 1831

Spotprent op de intocht van koning Leopold I in Brussel voor de inhuldiging op 21 juli 1831. De koning met zijn poedel (Sylvain van de Weyer) zittend in een kruiwagen voortgeduwd door een Belgische opstandeling... More

.00001 the value of a unit with four cyphers going before it

A satire on dissension and political intrigue within Andrew Jackson's administration, surrounding the Spring 1831 resignations of several members of his Cabinet. In the center Jackson sits in a collapsing chair... More

Set to between Old Hickory and Bully Nick

Satire on the public conflict between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle over the future of the Bank of the United States, and the former's campaign to destroy it. The print is sympathetic to Jackson, portrayi... More

Animal magnetism - A cartoon of a man sitting in a chair talking to an...

A swipe at President Van Buren's independent treasury system and his continuation of the monetary policies of predecessor Andrew Jackson. The artist, clearly in sympathy with the Whigs, links corruption in the ... More

Der Schneider. Der Knopfmacher - Public domain book scan / engraving

Print shows a tailor cutting cloth and two female(?) assistants sewing; on the right is a man making buttons. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

"Min man har lagt bort det". Tuschteckning av Fritz von Dardel

Texas coming in. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A pro-Democrat cartoon forecasting the collapse of Whig opposition to the annexation of Texas. James K. Polk, the expansionist candidate, stands at right near a bridge spanning "Salt River." He holds an America... More

Political cock fighters. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A figurative portrayal of the 1844 presidential contest as a cock-fight, in which Whig candidate Henry Clay prevails. Clay and Democratic opponent Polk battle in a pit or ring as several prominent political fi... More

Portrait of the female pirate - Public domain book illustration

Fanny Campbell, American Revolutionary pirate, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding cutlass and skull-and-crossbones flag. Illus. in: Fanny Campbell, the female pirate captain / by Lieutenant Mu... More

Common mode of whipping with the paddle

Man whipping slave as two other men and a child watch. Illus. in: Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for aiding slaves to escape from bondage. Boston : Pub. at the Anti-slavery of... More

Mr. Clay taking a new view of the Texas question

Illustration shows Henry Clay, dressed in doublet and breast plate with a brace of pistols at his waist, holding a carving knife and fork, at an open door in which a tiny "Mexican" cowers on a shelf. Below the ... More

Othello of de Moor van Venetië - Drawing. Public domain image.

Blad met 10 voorstellingen van verschillende theaterpersonages. Genummerd rechtsboven: No. 58.

Dancing for Eels - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A prospecting party / Lith. & Pubd. by Britton & Rey, San Francisco.

Pictorial lettersheet shows progression of optimistic to disappointed prospectors. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 209 (variation) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.03

Spotprent op de Fransen, 1674 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain scan of 16th-17th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spotprent op prins Willem V, 1784

Spotprent op prins Willem V, 1784. Willem V ligt bij de Nederlandse Maagd op schoot en wordt door haar met een pantoffel op het ontblote achterwerk geslagen. De prins roept de hertog van Brunswijk om hulp maar ... More

A modern belle going to the rooms at Bath, British Cartoon Print

Print showing two porters carrying an elegantly dressed woman in a sedan chair. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8895 Forms part of:... More

Spotprent op patriotse predikant A. Marcel, 1787

Spotprent op patriotse predikant A. Marcel te Rijswijk (bij Waalwijk), in 1787 gebannen. De dominee als keeshond in predikantenkleding krijgt van de duivel een geweer, sabel en patroontas aangereikt. Op de acht... More

The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", Probable Results of The Industry ...

George Augustus Sala (British, London 1828–1895 Hove) Public domain photograph of Great Exhibition, London, England, 1851, Crystal palace, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paapse piramide - Drawing. Public domain image.

Paapse piramide. Piramide gevormd door een grote slang voorstellende het pausdom en vele kleine slangetjes die andere elementen van de katholieke kerk symboliseren. Linksboven het Woord Gods uit een donderwolk.... More

Vrouw met spiegel en nar: spotprent op de kostbare stijve plooikraag, ...

Spotprent op de ijdelheid, getoond in luxueuze kleding. Een elegant geklede vrouw, ten halven lijve, is gekleed in japon met brede geplooide kraag: een teken van status en rijkdom. Als sieraden draagt ze oorbel... More

Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill

William Wilberforce and Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, cavort with two black women in a well-furnished room. Wilberforce and a woman, wearing a print dress with her breasts exposed, sit on a couch smoking... More

Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate. 17th April 1850

A somewhat tongue-in-cheek dramatization of the moment during the heated debate in the Senate over the admission of California as a free state when Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote drew a pistol on Thomas Har... More

Spotprent op het Algemeen Muziekfeest te Haarlem, 1850

Spotprent op het Algemeen Muziekfeest van de Maatschappij tot bevordering der Toonkunst te Haarlem, 13-15 juni 1850. Centraal de opvoering van het nieuwe oratorium 'Elias' van Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, met o... More

Reinier van Persijn - Spotprent op de kunsten

Spotprent op de kunsten: een markplein met een man die een groot zwevend masker vasthoudt. Hij wordt omringd door mensen van diverse pluimage. Omstanders kijken vol ontzag naar het tafereel. Op de voorgrond att... More

[Three panel cartoon representing the change in condition of French pe...

Print shows a three panel cartoon representing the change in condition of French peasants, union of the Three Orders (clergy, aristocracy, and people), and miserable plight of peasants Possibly purchased by Ge... More

Dédiée l'Assemblée Nationale--Liste de MMr. les Deputes de Paris a l'A...

Deputies of the Third Estate in a carriage drawn by two sheep and two bulls on their way to the Versailles directory; dishevelled lion; figure of the Republic with anchor on low platform behind; list of deputie... More

Spotprent op George III, 1792, James Gillray

Spotprent op koning George III, 1792. De koning zittend aan tafel eet een ei. Links eet de koningin salade.

The rival queens or a political heat for Rege & Grege, British Cartoon...

An encounter between two stout ladies, Mrs. Fitzherbert and Mrs. Schwellenberg, each with a second: the Prince of Wales, his hands on his lady's waist, and Pitt holding out a lemon to the furious German woman, ... More

The late auction at St. Eustatia - by R-- & V--

Print shows the interior of an auction house where Admiral Rodney and General John Vaughan are disposing property seized from citizens on the island of Saint Eustatius which the British captured from the Dutch.

Halloo! Turks in Gotham - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed in stone: WA. Title appears as it is written on the item. Purchase (Hubbard Fund); (DLC/PP-1976:041). Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

The fish question settled - Public domain print

A facetious, and somewhat racist, look at public opinion surrounding the controversy over American fishing rights in British-controlled waters off North America. (See also "John Bull's Fish Monopoly," no. 1852-... More

Spotprent in Leidse studentenalmanak, 1854

Spotprent op de Aprilbeweging van 1853. Lange stoet van pelgrims met palmtakken op weg naar de heuveltop waar een officier met bisschopsmijters samen met de duivel wacht. Spotprent in de studentenalmanak van de... More

The grand national fight 2 against 1 fought on the 6th Nov.1856; for o...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bear chase in Norway - Public domain drawing

Humorous drawing shows a bear chasing a sportsman who fires his rifle into the air as the bear chews the tails of his coat. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. Inscribed ab... More

Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arab merchant from "The Timely Retreat; or, a Year in Bengal before th...

This image has been taken from scan 000539 from "The Timely Retreat; or, a Year in Bengal before the Mutinies". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the B... More

Ye May session of ye woman's rights convention - ye orator of ye day d...

After T.M.N. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 3 (1859 June 11), p. 372. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Gov. John Winthrop -- In honor of the birthday of Governor John Winthr...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Gov. John Winthrop, flanked by statues of a Native American (left) and a pilgrim (right). Illus. from: Gleasons Pictorial, 1854, v. 6, p. 353.

The coming man's presidential career, a la Blondin [Cartoon of Lincoln...

Wood engr. by J.D. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 4, (1860 August 25), p. 544. Ref. copy in PRES FILE. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Negroes Cartoons 1860; BI... More

[Cartoon showing monstrous balloon competing with railroad train as a ...

Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. Reference copy may be in LOT 4700 B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Freight; Balloons Cat.; Rr Cartoon; Shelf.

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