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Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man in the moon at large, British Cartoon Print

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More

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

The doctor indulged with his favorite scene, British Cartoon Print

The doctor indulged with his favorite scene, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows cleric Dr. Richard Price, kneeling on a crown with a demon on his back, peering through a peep-hole into the royal bedroom at Versailles, watching ruffians destroy the Queen's bed and bedroom in s... More

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

A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique / Js. Gillray--invt--& fect., British Cartoon Print

A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique / Js. Gillray--in...

An elderly Sir William Hamilton inspecting his antiquities, all of which refer to his wife, Lady Emma Hamilton and her lover, Lord Horatio Nelson. In the background hang four pictures on the wall: "Cleopatra", ... 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

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

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.

The monstrous hydra, or virtue invulnerable, British Cartoon Print

The monstrous hydra, or virtue invulnerable, British Cartoon Print

Print shows William Pitt holding a paper labeled "Regency limitations & restrictions" encircled by a hydra labeled "Private Views" with eleven heads, among them Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and one blindfol... More

Pro bono publico - the public cluster in terrorem / WD., British Cartoon Print

Pro bono publico - the public cluster in terrorem / WD., British Carto...

Print shows a grapevine twisted about a gibbet from which hangs a pendulous bunch of grapes with the faces of various British ministers, the most prominent being that of Charles James Fox, with Lord North sligh... More

A new and finer crown for California / CH [monogram].

A new and finer crown for California / CH [monogram].

Illustration shows a female figure holding out a crown labeled "The New Frisco", fashioned after a city skyline; a bear sits on the ground next to her and, in the background, are 16th or 17th century sailing sh... More

In the art pen at Ellis Island - Political cartoon, public domain image

In the art pen at Ellis Island - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Illustration shows several artists identified as "Lawrence, Gainsborough, D. Teniers, Rubens, Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian, Duerer, Velasquez, Van Dyke, Reni", and the friar Girolamo Savonarola as "S", being held ... More

Ontwerp voor een politieke spotprent

Ontwerp voor een politieke spotprent

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Politieke allegorie : de kroon van Boeginese koning

Politieke allegorie : de kroon van Boeginese koning

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Oranje redt de Nederlanden van het Spaanse zeemonster, ca. 1577

Oranje redt de Nederlanden van het Spaanse zeemonster, ca. 1577

Politieke allegorie met Willem van Oranje die als Perseus de Nederlanden (Andromeda) komt redden van de Spaanse tirannie (het zeemonster), ca. 1577. Andromeda met wapen aangeduid als het hertogdom Brabant, rech... More

Allegorie op het geduld tijdens de periode van oorlog

Allegorie op het geduld tijdens de periode van oorlog

Politieke allegorie op het geduld in de tijd van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog, ca. 1577. De vrouwelijke personificatie van Geduld (Patientia), weergegeven als een naakte vrouw, is geketend aan een boom. Naast haar h... More

Oproep tot eendracht in de Nederlanden, 1578

Oproep tot eendracht in de Nederlanden, 1578

Politieke allegorie waarin opgeroepen wordt tot eendrachtig optreden van de Nederlanden tegen de Spaanse vijand. Op een Romeins (of Italiaans) stadsplein vindt binnen een omheining een gevecht plaats tussen twe... More

De Boom van het Verbond, 1578 - Engraving, Public domain image

De Boom van het Verbond, 1578 - Engraving, Public domain image

Politieke allegorie uit 1578 met de Boom van de Vrede (Arbor Pacis) in het midden; boven in de boom het wapen van Filips II waarin uit de hemel een hart wordt gezet; in de takken zitten links en rechts Liefde (... More

De dood van Don Juan en de vernedering van Alva, 1578

De dood van Don Juan en de vernedering van Alva, 1578

De dood van Don Juan en de vernedering van Alva, 1578. Politieke allegorie waarin Don Juan door de Dood te paard met een pijl doorschoten wordt. Linksvoor kruipt de hertog van Alva geketend over de grond gelijk... More

De Boom van het Verbond, 1578 - Engraving, Public domain image

De Boom van het Verbond, 1578 - Engraving, Public domain image

Politieke allegorie uit 1578 met de Boom van de Vrede (Arbor Pacis) in het midden; boven in de boom het wapen van Filips II waarin uit de hemel een hart wordt gezet; in de takken zitten links en rechts Liefde (... More

De Nederlandse Koe, ca. 1587 - Political cartoon, public domain image

De Nederlandse Koe, ca. 1587 - Political cartoon, public domain image

Politieke allegorie van ca. 1587 waarin de Nederlandse Koe wordt gemolken door een Schot of Engelsman (mogelijk de graaf van Leicester), bij de horens gevat door een Duitser (mogelijk Matthias van Oostenrijk of... More

Transcriptie van de verzen bij een politieke allegorie uit 1598

Transcriptie van de verzen bij een politieke allegorie uit 1598

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Transcriptie van de verzen bij de politieke allegorie uit 1598

Transcriptie van de verzen bij de politieke allegorie uit 1598

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Allegorie op de keizerverkiezing te Frankfurt, 1741

Allegorie op de keizerverkiezing te Frankfurt, 1741

Oorspronkelijke zestiende- of zeventiende-eeuwse politieke allegorie hergebruikt in 1741 als een zinnebeeld op de aanstaande keizerverkiezing op de Rijksdag te Frankfurt in januari 1742. De paus en leden van de... More

Europa's molendans, ca. 1700 - Engraving, Public domain image

Europa's molendans, ca. 1700 - Engraving, Public domain image

Europa's molendans. Politieke allegorie waarin op de muziek van Cupido met elkaar dansen: Nederland, Frankrijk, Engeland en Spanje. Op de achtergrond een molen, op de grond Engelse rozen en Franse lelies. Mogel... More

A smoking club, James Gillray - Engraving, Public domain image

A smoking club, James Gillray - Engraving, Public domain image

Pitt and Dundas, Fox and Sheridan face each other across a long narrow table, smoking long pipes and puffing clouds of smoke in each other's faces. The gallery of the House of Commons is indicated in the backgr... More

Brentford Sweepstakes. All coursers the first heat with Vigour Run. But 'tis with whip & spur the race is won

Brentford Sweepstakes. All coursers the first heat with Vigour Run. Bu...

"An etching showing four horses running towards "St. Stepn's Chapel", a building with open sides, and containing a party of men seated at a long table..." (Source: Stephens)

A council, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

A council, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

"An engraving showing the Privy Council, or that portion of it which was known to include "the King's Friends", seated round a table, on which lie rolls of paper, being petitions presented to the King from "Mid... More

La physique confond l'ignorance Dedié aux souscripteurs.

La physique confond l'ignorance Dedié aux souscripteurs.

French cartoon shows a woman (Physics personified) whipping the bare bottom of one man (possibly Janinet) while another (possibly Abbé Miollan), walks away pulling up his trousers. In the background, men are in... More

The Orangerie; - or - the Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of Planting / Js. Gy. inv: et fect., British Cartoon Print

The Orangerie; - or - the Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of P...

William V, Prince of Orange, as a fat, naked Cupid, reclining on a platform of grass and flowers and leaning on a bag of money marked 24,000,000 ducats. In the foreground are a number of orange plants with each... More

A certain cabinet junto / P. Revere, sc., British Cartoon Print

A certain cabinet junto / P. Revere, sc., British Cartoon Print

Print shows King George III, speechless (his caption balloon is empty), seated on the right in a high-backed chair at a table, with Lord North seated opposite presenting a paper to the King that states "for the... More

[The London dentist] - Political cartoon, public domain image

[The London dentist] - Political cartoon, public domain image

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Roast beef & port or Bully Bramble Esqr., Justice of Peace in Wasp Town, British Cartoon Print

Roast beef & port or Bully Bramble Esqr., Justice of Peace in Wasp Tow...

"Portrait, W.L., of a stout man facing T.Q. to right, looking to left over his right shoulder. His left hand is thrust under his buttoned coat; his right (gloved) rests on a cane..." (Source: George) No. 24. Ca... More

Messieurs Delaunay, Flexelles, Berthier, Foulon, et les deux Gardes du Corps qui ont été decolés par le peuple, voudraient passer jusqu'aux Champs Eliseés en depit de Caron qui ne recoit dans sa barque que le Sr. Remy François boulanger victime innocente de la fureur aristocratique: l'infortuné Calas et autres viennent le recevoir a l'autre bord

Messieurs Delaunay, Flexelles, Berthier, Foulon, et les deux Gardes du...

Print shows Charon accepting the baker Sr. Remy, mistakenly beheaded, into his boat while rejecting several government officials and guardsmen, all who carry their severed heads atop pikes; on the opposite shor... More

Je tient mon pied du bœuf - il faut faire trois choses Le calculateur patriote.

Je tient mon pied du bœuf - il faut faire trois choses Le calculateur ...

Print shows (on the left) an aristocrat and a clergyman, each with a hand on a low post, and a member of the Third Estate placing both of his hands on top of the others. "Pied de Bœuf" is a pun on "Œil de Bœuf"... More

Monsieur veto - A drawing of a group of people on a street

Monsieur veto - A drawing of a group of people on a street

Print shows a monstrous giant, representing monarchical veto powers, is welcomed at an entryway by a nobleman; he has scales on his hands and feet, carries a bar used to enchain prisoners, symbolizing despotism... More

The heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial, at the bar of the revolutionary tribunal of Paris, July 17, 1793 / Js. Gy. desn. et fect., British Cartoon Print

The heroic Charlotte la Cordé, upon her trial, at the bar of the revol...

Print shows Charlotte Corday standing before the judges of the Revolutionary Tribunal with the body of Marat which lying between them. She responds to the Tribunal, "Wretches, I did not expect to appear before ... More

Search night - or - state watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirators

Search night - or - state watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirato...

The interior of a bare, poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof. Pitt and Dundas, as watchmen, batter down the upper timbers of a door (right) which has been strongly bolted, locked, and barricaded. Both hav... More

L--d Shel--, begging Monsieur to make piss or p--e, British Cartoon Print

L--d Shel--, begging Monsieur to make piss or p--e, British Cartoon Pr...

Print shows Lord Shelburne holding a chamber pot up to a Frenchman, saying "Monsieur, be so obliging as to make piss with us." The Frenchman is kicking the pot, saying, "By the House of Bourbon, with the war we... More

The fumbler's clubb, British Cartoon Print

The fumbler's clubb, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a group of men, a nursemaid and a housemaid admiring a "baby" which is actually a cat wrapped in swaddling. Text under image is satire of man, unable to father children, who thinks a cat is his chil... More

Mercurius daalt neer op een man in een studeervertrek

Mercurius daalt neer op een man in een studeervertrek

Een man zit achter een schrijftafel in een studeervertrek. Boven hem zweeft Mercurius met de caduceus met daaraan de titel van het tijdschrift. Op de voorgrond een globe en andere meetinstrumenten, in de achter... More

Revolution, or Johnny Bull in France

Revolution, or Johnny Bull in France

Print shows a large bull labeled "Tiers Etat - Orleans" referring to Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orleans, tossing Marie Antoinette into the air as Louis XVI kneels in prayer on the left; standing behind the bu... More

Horrors of the Irish-union. Botheration of poor Pat - or - a whisper across the Channel

Horrors of the Irish-union. Botheration of poor Pat - or - a whisper a...

Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the "Irish Channel." On a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shiel... More

The convention makers, British Cartoon Print

The convention makers, British Cartoon Print

"The interior of a room; a picture called A Convention, depicting the Convention between England and Spain on the Falkland Islands, is falling from a broken cornice inscribed National Honour, onto four prostrat... More

The village barber / H. J., British Cartoon Print

The village barber / H. J., British Cartoon Print

"A barber is dressing the hair of a woman seated in profile to the right ..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Depa... 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).

Loon na werk 1780, British Cartoon Print

Loon na werk 1780, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a large dog (representing England) muzzled and chained being attacked by several men (representing the countries of the armed neutrality league and the allies, a Swede, a Dane, a Frenchman with an u... More

Evidence to character - being, a portrait of a traitor by his friends & by himself

Evidence to character - being, a portrait of a traitor by his friends ...

Depicted is the trial of O'Connor, who confesses to making an Irish-French alliance, before the presiding judge Buller. Testifying to the character of O'Connor are various members of the opposition. Starting at... More

Small talk for the benefit of the Wells / designed by Shortskirts ; executed by Boys.

Small talk for the benefit of the Wells / designed by Shortskirts ; ex...

Print shows a man wearing a mortar board and gown standing on the left expressing concern, "Oh dear - damnation! - what will become of my poor NEDDY." Another man, possibly Edmund Burke, labeled "Fop", is strik... More

Hell in triumph or The devil has got his own / Peepo Mellico, scratchavit., British Cartoon Print

Hell in triumph or The devil has got his own / Peepo Mellico, scratcha...

Print shows Sir Hugh Palliser, a naval admiral and accuser of Admiral Augustus Keppel following the inconclusive battle off the coast of Ushant in 1778, being pulled off a cliff by demons toward the open mouth ... More

William Humphrey - The modern paradise, or Adam and Eve regenerated. Caricature, England.

William Humphrey - The modern paradise, or Adam and Eve regenerated. C...

Print showing Adam and Eve, (probably representing the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert), naked except for elaborate wigs, standing by the "Tree of life", surrounded by the trappings of fashionable customs ... More

A lobby flesh-monger treating with a saleswoman for a prime piece, or buying fruit at Covent Garden market for an evening's entertainment, British Cartoon Print

A lobby flesh-monger treating with a saleswoman for a prime piece, or ...

Print shows a man and a woman negotiating the fee for the services of a young woman standing to the right; they are outside the "New Tea Room" with entrance through an arch labeled "Designed by Avarice ... Exec... More

A touch of the times, British Cartoon Print

A touch of the times, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a woman playing cards with a monkey dressed as a man, two figures in masquerade attend to them, above and in the background are a musician, a man and a woman, and a cuckold, also seated is an owl sm... More

British resentment, or The French fairly coopt at Louisbourg / L. Boitard, invt. et delin. ; J. June, sculp.

British resentment, or The French fairly coopt at Louisbourg / L. Boit...

"Britannia, seated on a throne inscribed,---"Nemo me impune lacessit", attends to the complaints of injured Americans, and affords them protection..." (Source: Stephens)

The fate of city Rem- - -ces, British Cartoon Print

The fate of city Rem- - -ces, British Cartoon Print

"An engraving showing George III. seated at a table approached by his son, the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., who, taking off his plumed coronet, says to his father:---"Papa, I want some Paper to make ... More

Quinquanpolix, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Quinquanpolix, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

"This engraving is a Dutch satire on John Law of Lauriston, promoter of the Mississippi Company and other bubble schemes of the year 1720; it is No. 21 in vol. i. of "Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid", a colle... More

Enthusiasm display'd: or, the Moor Fields congregation, British Cartoon Print

Enthusiasm display'd: or, the Moor Fields congregation, British Cartoo...

The print shows evangelical Methodist minister George Whitefield preaching at Moorsfield, London.. He is supported by two females, one holding a mask and labeled "Hypocrisy", the other a Janus-faced "Deceit". O... More

Jefferies, in the character of Atropos, cutting the thread of English Liberty, British Cartoon Print

Jefferies, in the character of Atropos, cutting the thread of English ...

Print shows King John seated at a small table outside his tent, signing Magna Carta, behind him stand by two bishops. Four men are pulling a rope, the "thread of English Liberty", which is attached to King John... More

The way to keep him, or the female flagellants attacking the platonic hero at the Richmond Theatre / designed by Whim ; exectued by Satire., British Cartoon Print

The way to keep him, or the female flagellants attacking the platonic ...

Print shows a smiling man, "platonic love", on one knee as three women beat him with whips made of bulrushes(?); on the wall in the background are two portraits, "The Maid of Drury" and "The Maid of the Oaks." ... More

Consequences of a successful French invasion / Sir John Dalrymple, inv.; Js Gillray, fecit., British Cartoon Print

Consequences of a successful French invasion / Sir John Dalrymple, inv...

French soldiers pillaging and destroying the House of Lords. A guillotine takes the place of the throne and above it hangs a Liberty Cap. A French soldier carries away the mace while others rip and burn the tap... More

Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793

Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793

Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleev... More

A smuggling machine or A convenient cosauway for a man in miniature, British Cartoon Print

A smuggling machine or A convenient cosauway for a man in miniature, B...

Print shows "A portrait of Richard Cosway, R.A., standing under the wide hooped petticoat of a tall lady, his wife, Maria, who puts her arms round him..." (Source: George) Color impression Partially trimmed to ... More

Sous la gloire des augustes maisons de nos princes, Minerve deésse protectrice de la France, contemple le tiers etat figuré par un laboureur poussant sa charrue dans un sillon

Sous la gloire des augustes maisons de nos princes, Minerve deésse pro...

Print shows Minerva, gazing fondly heavenward, standing on the top level of a tiered checkerboard, holding a pike with banner and a shield with the likeness of Medusa on it; in a pastoral setting is a member of... More

High life at noon, British Cartoon Print

High life at noon, British Cartoon Print

Print shows an interior view of a room in which two men and two women are taking tea; on the left, a man with an extremely long ponytail attempts to prevent the entrance of a messenger carrying a bill from "Lor... More

Allegorie op de rol van de de paus in de Gulik-Kleefse kwestie, 1615

Allegorie op de rol van de de paus in de Gulik-Kleefse kwestie, 1615

Politieke allegorie op rol van de de paus en de roomse kerk in de Gulik-Kleefse kwestie, 1615. Centraal een schreeuwende paus met in de hand een met laurierbladen bedekt zwaard. Door het oplichten van de flap (... More

Het Testament van het Twaalfjarig Bestand, 1615

Het Testament van het Twaalfjarig Bestand, 1615

Politieke allegorie op het dreigende einde van het Twaalfjarig Bestand, 1615. Het bestand, een oude vrouw, ligt in haar doodsbed omringd door de paus en andere roomse geestelijken die voor haar leven smeken. Zi... More

Antwoord op een paskwil van pater Arent tegen de Hollanders, 1615

Antwoord op een paskwil van pater Arent tegen de Hollanders, 1615

Politieke allegorie met links de roomse voorstelling van pater Arents tegen de Hollanders, in het midden een monsterlijke kop, rechts het anti-roomse antwoord waarin de rollen worden omgekeerd. Links braadt de ... More

Claes Jansz Visscher II - De Kleefse Sint Joris, 1615

Claes Jansz Visscher II - De Kleefse Sint Joris, 1615

Politieke allegorie op strijd tussen prins Maurits en Spinola in de Gulik-Kleefse kwestie, 1615. Maurits als de heilige Joris te paard vecht tegen een zevenkoppige draak bereden door Spinola. Op de koppen hoofd... More

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Politieke allegorie op de overwinning van de contraremonstranten dankzij het ingrijpen van prins Maurits, 1618. De voorstelling toont een interieur met een grote weegschaal. Hierop worden, in aanwezigheid van G... More

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Politieke allegorie op de overwinning van de contraremonstranten dankzij het ingrijpen van prins Maurits, 1618. De voorstelling toont een interieur met een grote weegschaal. Hierop worden, in aanwezigheid van G... More

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Politieke allegorie op de overwinning van de contraremonstranten dankzij het ingrijpen van prins Maurits, 1618. De voorstelling toont een interieur met een grote weegschaal. Hierop worden, in aanwezigheid van G... More

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Politieke allegorie op de overwinning van de contraremonstranten dankzij het ingrijpen van prins Maurits, 1618. De voorstelling toont een interieur met een grote weegschaal. Hierop worden, in aanwezigheid van G... More

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Politieke allegorie op de overwinning van de contraremonstranten dankzij het ingrijpen van prins Maurits, 1618. De voorstelling toont een interieur met een grote weegschaal. Hierop worden, in aanwezigheid van G... More

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Politieke allegorie op de overwinning van de contraremonstranten dankzij het ingrijpen van prins Maurits, 1618. De voorstelling toont een interieur met een grote weegschaal. Hierop worden, in aanwezigheid van G... More

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Salomon Savery - De Weegschaal, 1618

Politieke allegorie op de overwinning van de contraremonstranten dankzij het ingrijpen van prins Maurits, 1618. De voorstelling toont een interieur met een grote weegschaal. Hierop worden, in aanwezigheid van G... More

Allegorie op de ondergang van de Spaanse Armada en de ontdekking van het buskruitverraad, 1588-1605

Allegorie op de ondergang van de Spaanse Armada en de ontdekking van h...

Politieke allegorie op de ondergang van de Spaanse Armada in 1588 en de ontdekking van het buskruitverraad in 1605. Links de Spaanse vloot op zee, in het midden een tafel met baldakijn waaraan de duivel, Filips... More

1588. Deo trin-vni Britanniae bis ultori, In memoriam ..., British Cartoon Print

1588. Deo trin-vni Britanniae bis ultori, In memoriam ..., British Car...

The destruction of the Spanish Armada, 1588, and the detection of the gunpowder plot, 1605. Print contains the irradiated name of Jehovah, under which is a tent with the Devil as president, holding a sealed pap... More

Orpheus door Nieuwe Tijd aan boord genomen, 1625

Orpheus door Nieuwe Tijd aan boord genomen, 1625

Politieke allegorie met Orpheus die door de Nieuwe Tijd aan boord van een schip wordt genomen. Links een stad met verdedigingsmuren en kanonnen. In de lucht een hand met bliksemstralen.

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...

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Orpheus door Nieuwe Tijd aan boord genomen, 1625

Orpheus door Nieuwe Tijd aan boord genomen, 1625

Politieke allegorie met Orpheus die door de Nieuwe Tijd aan boord van een schip wordt genomen. Links een stad met verdedigingsmuren en kanonnen. In de lucht een hand met bliksemstralen.

Orpheus onder de Oranjeboom, 1625

Orpheus onder de Oranjeboom, 1625

Politieke allegorie met Orpheus harpspelend onder de Oranjeboom, 1625. Aan zijn voeten leven vreedzaam naast elkaar de dieren: schapen, leeuw, varken, hond en ooievaar.

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...

Titelpagina van het pamflet Afbeeldinge vanden Ouden ende Nieuwen-tijt Waer met Orpheus Wandelt / Spreekt / Singt ende Speelt, 1625. Politieke allegorie met Orpheus harpspelend onder de Oranjeboom, 1625. Aan zi... More

Op't vernietegen van't genaemde Engels Parlement door Olivier Cromwel hun Generael, British Cartoon Print

Op't vernietegen van't genaemde Engels Parlement door Olivier Cromwel ...

Dutch cartoon protesting Oliver Cromwell's reign by showing him as Hercules clad in a lionskin shattering the royal money barrel, symbolically ending the rule of the Long Parliament. By an unknown Dutch artist.... More

A contented cuckold in the new fashion, British Cartoon Print

A contented cuckold in the new fashion, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a half-length portrait of a cuckold counting his wealth in the form of jewelry that his unfaithful wife receives as gifts from her suitors; through a window in the upper right corner can be seen the... More

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli - De Nieuwsgierigheid

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli - De Nieuwsgierigheid

Een politieke allegorie op de nieuwsgierigheid (Curiosità): een gevleugelde vrouwenfiguur met een gewaad met daarop ogen en oren, die twee tekstrollen toont met een lijst van de overwinningen en veroveringen va... More

Mandarina Tottidumpa, original dancing mistress to the first Emperour of China [dancing with] Philobanter Suckbottle, Prime Dancing Minister to ye Ancient Noddificators of the famous city in the Land of Nod

Mandarina Tottidumpa, original dancing mistress to the first Emperour ...

Caricature. Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fowls of a feather flock together / K., fecit, 1785.

Fowls of a feather flock together / K., fecit, 1785.

Scottish cartoon shows a group of men conversing as balloons sail overhead. Possibly Scottish balloonist James Tytler and Italian balloonist Vincent Lunardi.

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

The Lilliputian Dancing School, or ... Monsr. Gravieulo Tottibone, French Dancing Master to the Temple Lawyers [dancing with] Dame Prucilla Quiddletet, Dancing Mistress to the Milkmaids against May Day
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

Oh qui goose-toe! [O che gusto!], British Cartoon Print

Oh qui goose-toe! [O che gusto!], British Cartoon Print

"A companion print to No. 5905. Vestris fils, as in No. 5905, on the same stage, is dancing in a similar pose, poised on his right toe, his back to the audience, looking over his left shoulder smiling ..." (Sou... 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

The art critic / C. Hassman̄. - Public domain portrait painting

The art critic / C. Hassman̄. - Public domain portrait painting

Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt wearing his Rough Rider uniform, with a "Nobel Prize" extending from one pocket and "The Big Stick" leaning against the wall, changing the title to a large painting of Geor... 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

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

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

United Irishmen in training, James Gillray

United Irishmen in training, James Gillray

Outside a country ale-house, ruffians are practicing their weapons at close range on the effigy of a British soldier that is spiked on a spear (left). It wears helmet, coat stuffed with straw, and top-boots. On... More

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

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