Incense Burner in the Form of a Duck
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Hanging Scroll - Visiting Dai Kui on a Snowy Night
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Song of a Fisherman - Public domain dedication, Art Institute of Chica...
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Summer habit of a Chinese mandarin in 1700. Habillement d'ete de'un ma...
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同庚契會圖 朝鮮|Gathering of government officials
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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
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
The Scotch butchery, Boston, 1775
Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More
Winter habit of a Chinese Mandarin in 1700.
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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
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
Gedenck-Zeichen abbildend auff was Weise die Stadt Utrecht von den Fra...
Birds-eye view print shows crowds of people, wagons and onlookers walking or riding horses down the street. In the procession are town leaders, merchants, clergy, military personnel and lackeys. In the backgrou... More
The English lion dismember'd, or the voice of the public for an enquir...
A lion with one of his paws (labeled Minorca) cut off. Frenchmen consult to one side about cutting more off while the Lord Mayor of London and other English politicians consult on the other. Minorca had been lo... More
John Glyn esqr., member of Parliament for Middlesex, British Cartoon P...
Full-length portrait facing left, standing next to column with Liberty figure. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
The Chevalier D'--n producing his evidence against certain persons, Br...
Print shows opposing groups of government officials; Chevalier D'Eon, portrayed as an ape, vomits on Lord Bute who stands before other members of the Duke of Grafton's ministry and astride the Earl of Hillsboro... More
The courtiers assembled, on hearing the news of the death of the Rt. H...
Print shows a group of ministers seated around a table commenting on the news of William Beckford's death. Depicted are Jeremiah Dyson, John Montagu Sandwich, William Murray Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, Augu... More
Charles Gravier comte de Vergennes - conseiller d'Etat ordinaire, mini...
Print shows Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at ornately carved desk featuring portrait of Louis XVI. Includes armorial shield below portrait. S... More
The Scotch Butchery, Boston, 1775, British Cartoon Print
Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More
Virginia General Assembly, May 1779, Bill on Salaries for Government O...
Bill on Salaries for Government Officials; Written on Fragment of Note from "Mr. Foster"
Four heads from the Raphael cartoons at Hampton Court
A study of four heads after Raphael, which was discovered by Mrs. Hogarth amongst her husband's papers after his death. The heads themselves are from Raphael's Paul and the Blind Magician Elymas before Sergius ... More
The political mirror or an exhibition of ministers for April 1782 / Ra...
Print shows Lords Sandwich, Rigby, North, Mansfield, an unidentified man, and Germain in the clutches of a devil, fall into an abyss, driven there by the opposition, or new ministers, Thurlow, Conway, Camden, B... More
The late bombardment of government castle / C. Goodnight sculp.
Print shows members of the new ministry besieging a fortress where members of the old ministry, including George III, have taken refuge; the ministries are bombarding each other.
The state cooks making peace-porridge, British Cartoon Print
Print shows several British ministers, Keppel, Fox, Richmond, Conway, and others, preparing a porridge of peace to offer Holland, France, and Spain, and separately to a Native wearing a feathered headdress and ... More
The political mirror or an exhibition of ministers for April 1782
Old ministers are driven over the cliff into hell by new ministry, including Fox, Burke, and Wilkes. Bute flees on the back of a witch. Dorothy George argues that the attribution "Razo Rezio inv, Crunk Fogo scu... More
The royal hunt, or a prospect of the year 1782
Sandwich and North carouse with courtesans while an American Indian, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a Dutchman are pulling the pillars out from under the British Empire. This print, attributed to Townshend, was co... More
Paradice lost. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Car...
Print shows Charles James Fox with a handful of switches driving four old ministers (possibly lords North, Germain, Sandwich), and Lord Bute from paradise. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Li... More
The royal hunt, or a prospect of the year 1782 / South Briton fecit ; ...
Print shows Lord Sandwich playing a fiddle, sitting between two courtesans, to the left, Lord North yawns while sitting on a sack, behind them are Rigby, Amherst, and Germain. To the right of this party is stan... More
The surrender of government castle, in March 1782, to the late besiegi...
Print shows members of the old ministry walking out of the "Government Castle" closely followed by a devil, and members of the new ministry marching in. Caption continues: N.B. The old garrison and placemen ar... More
War of posts / T. Colley, fect., British Cartoon Print
Print shows the new ministers, Pitt, Keppel, Conway, Burke, Fox, and Richmond riding on wooden posts and cannon drive, with the aid of a devil, the old ministers, Nick, Sandwich, Amherst, North, and Mansfield i... More
Amusement for John Bull & his cousin Paddy, or, the gambols of the Ame...
Print shows several ministers helping themselves to fishes and loaves that have spilled from a fishwife's basket which was upset by a rampaging "American Buffalo"; among those depicted are the Duke of Portland,... More
Mr. De Vergennes, ministre des affaires etrangères sous Louis XVI / Bo...
Print shows Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right; in oval.
Shodan. Book illustration from Library of Congress, Shunsh Katsukawa
Print shows a confrontation between a court official and a lesser official with his wife standing nearby, following an offense by the court official; this sets the stage, in later acts, for the lesser official'... More
The return of poor Sam Stern and his supporter to the T--y, British Ca...
Print shows a man sitting upon and facing the rear of a donkey on which is a blanket with crest and the motto "honi soit que mal y pense" and a key hanging from its neck. The man says, "In April 82 I was all as... More
Constitutional Club, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon
Print of satire on the Westminster by-election of 1788 shows five men carving a fox on a table as William Pitt carries a coin-filled gravy boat inscribed "Mint sauce, Constitutional restorative" and King George... More
The sour prospect before us, or The ins throwing up State --., British...
"Ministers, seven isolated figures, vomit copiously at the prospect of being turned out...." (Source: George) Title continues in panel 2: Affairs. The sweet prospect behind us, or the outs in office. Panel 2 ... More
Laurent Guyot - La verite triomphante, engraving, Library of Congress
Print shows, on the upper right, Jacques Necker wearing a toga and standing on clouds above a wall or sarcophagus, holding aloft with his left hand a bust portrait of Louis XVI, and holding at his right shoulde... More
A sphere, projecting against a plane, James Gillray
Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt'... More
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
Presentation of the Mahometan Credentials, or the final resource of Fr...
The King and Queen, seated on the throne (left), receive with astonished horror a deputation from Turkey. An arrogant Turk stands proffering a large rolled document with pendent seals on which are crescents. Be... More
Patriotic regeneration, viz. parliament reform'd, a la francoise, that...
The interior of the House of Commons. The Speaker's chair and the table are in the foreground on the extreme left. Only the Opposition benches are visible and are crowded with English sansculottes wearing bonne... More
La chose impossible, ou la commission des finances telle quil la faudr...
Print shows four bare-bottomed men, the ministers of finances, sitting around a table restoring their good health on the produce of other nations; as they consume the "Eau de la Plata" and "Eau du Sénégal," the... More
End of the Irish Invasion : - or - the Destruction of the French Armad...
French warships, labeled Le Révolutionaire, L'Egalité and The Revolutionary Jolly Boat, being tossed about during a storm blown up by Pitt, Dundas, Grenville and Windham, whose heads appear from the clouds. Cha... More
La bonnet-rouge - or - John Bull evading the tax hat
John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is a yokel with wrinkled gaiters, with a tattered ... More
The giant-factotum amusing himself, James Gillray
Pitt arrogantly bestrides the Speaker's chair, towering high above the galleries of the House. He plays cup (or rather spike) and ball with the globe, on which 'France' is disproportionately large, the British ... More
Meeting of the monied Interest. Constitutional opposition to ye 10 pr ...
Fox stands, declaiming violently to his supporters, who surround him. He holds out a paper. His clenched right fist is raised. He is dishevelled and ragged, with a padlocked 'Begging Box' slung round his should... More
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
--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
Integrity retiring from office, James Gillray
The resigning Ministers issue from the arched gateway of the Treasury, led by Pitt (right) who, with an oratorical gesture, holds out a document. Behind him is Dundas (Secretary of State for War), holding Pitt'... More
Dido in despair, James Gillray - coin, public domain photograph
A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and la... More
The reconciliation, James Gillray
The King steps forward to embrace the Prince of Wales, who throws himself into his father's arms. George III wears court dress, the Prince's dress is tattered and disheveled, his pocket hangs inside out, the ga... More
Political candour, i.e. coalition resolutions of June 14th, 1805, Jame...
Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons; a large section of the crowded Opposition benches is shown (r.). Pitt sits alone on the Treasury Bench, his profile only appearing on the extreme left. The rest of th... More
Political candour, i.e. coalition resolutions of June 14th, 1805, Jame...
Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons; a large section of the crowded Opposition benches is shown (r.). Pitt sits alone on the Treasury Bench, his profile only appearing on the extreme left. The rest of th... More
Uncorking old sherry, James Gillray
Pitt stands in the House of Commons, facing the opposition benches. He causes a tremendous explosion by uncorking a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan, whose hair swirls up into the nec... More
Uncorking old sherry, James Gillray
Pitt stands in the House of Commons, facing the opposition benches. He causes a tremendous explosion by uncorking a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan, whose hair swirls up into the nec... More
More pigs than teats - or - the new litter of hungry grunters sucking ...
An old sow lies exhausted on a pile of straw outside a sty roofed with dilapidated thatch. She is beset by thirty-two voracious piglets with human heads. John Bull, a clumsy yokel in a smock, holding a pitchfor... More
The bear and his leader, James Gillray
Grenville (r.) displays a dancing bear with the head of Fox enclosed in a muzzle. He holds a chain attached to the muzzle and a long heavy staff. The bear obediently and clumsily repeats the dancing-step of his... More
Pacific overtures - or - a flight from St Cloud's "Over the Water to C...
The stage, flanked by the stage-boxes, extends across the design, the base of which is the orchestra, where the new Ministry perform. George III has stepped on to the stage from the royal box (l.) and confronts... More
Pacific overtures - or - a flight from St Cloud's "Over the Water to C...
The stage, flanked by the stage-boxes, extends across the design, the base of which is the orchestra, where the new Ministry perform. George III has stepped on to the stage from the royal box (l.) and confronts... More
Le diable-boiteux - or - the Devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull...
Fox, as the Devil, has sprung into the air, supported by small feathered wings and by two stout crutches, which rest upon dark clouds. He has a heavy hairy body with cloven hoofs, and wears a bonnet rouge with ... More
Le diable-boiteux - or - the Devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull...
Fox, as the Devil, has sprung into the air, supported by small feathered wings and by two stout crutches, which rest upon dark clouds. He has a heavy hairy body with cloven hoofs, and wears a bonnet rouge with ... More
A Kick at the Broad Bottoms! i.e. - "Emancipation of All the Talents" ...
King George III, his face hidden by a pillar, grabs the pigtail of Lord Grenville, and holds his scepter as if ready to strike Grenville. Members of the government, including Howick, holding a torn copy of the ... More
[Tōjinbutsu], portrait - Public domain portrait print
Print shows a Chinese official, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing slightly right, holding papers in his right hand. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More
Sick of the property tax or ministerial influnza (sic), British Cartoo...
Cartoon shows ministers, among them Vansittart and Castlereagh, vomiting taxes into a large bag labeled "budget." The Prince Regent stands nearby, supported on crutches labeled "more money" and "increase in inc... More
Conspirators; or, delegates in council, British Cartoon Print
Cartoon shows three government ministers, Viscount Sidmouth, Thomas Reynolds and Viscount Castlereagh, sitting at a table with three agents or spies. On the table rests a large bag from which docketed papers pr... More
La paix sera desormais une verite (comme le charte) / J.J. Grandville ...
Print shows a procession with "Porteurs du dais" (the man on the left looks like Jean-Charles Persil), "Le Président" (Casimer Périer), "Porteurs du dais," "Porte Cierge" (Le Maréchal Soult), "Reliques..." (Cha... More
Te deum à l'autel de la paix (suite) / Lith. de Delaporte.
Print shows a procession with "Aspergeur" (Le maréchal Mouton), "Diacre" (Jean-Francois Jacqueminot), "Un president a cheval sur le reglement" (Louis-Gaspard-Amédée Girod de l'Ain) sitting in a chair being carr... More
Monseigneur..nous mettrons Paris en état de siège
Monseigneur s'ils persistent nous mettrons Paris en état de siege Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Caricature, Dieu ai-je aimé cet être là, public domain cartoon image
God how I loved that fellow there Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Soult (Maréchal) - Public domain portrait engraving
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Caricature, Comte d'Argout, public domain cartoon image
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Caricature, Soult (Maréchal), public domain cartoon image
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Comte d'Argout - Engraving, Public domain image
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A da-da sur mon bidet (romance enfantine)
Giddyap, horsie (a children's rhyme) Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Comte D'Argout - Public domain portrait engraving
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Caricature, Chimère de l'imagination, public domain cartoon image
Chimera of the imagination Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Warrants from the Governor to Select Representatives to Congress, 1833...
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Caricature, Un nouveau nez, public domain cartoon image
A new nose Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Soult en enfant de choeur - Drawing. Public domain image.
Soult as a choir boy Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A.D. Jollivet, en buste - Public domain portrait engraving
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Caricature, Le moulin du télégraphe, public domain cartoon image
The windmill of the telegraph Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Caricature, Les honneurs du Panthéon, public domain cartoon image
The honours of the Pantheon Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Caricature, Le ventre législatif, public domain cartoon image
Le ventre législatif. Aspect des bancs ministériels de la chambre improstituée de 1834 | L'Association Mensuelle. Le ventre législatif Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Caricature, Ne vous y frottez pas!, public domain cartoon image
Don’t you meddle with it! Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Caricature, Le triomphateur, public domain cartoon image
The triumpher Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Soyez le bienvenu, vainquer de Waterloo
Welcome, victor of Waterloo Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Je suis content de vous, mes braves!
I am very pleased with you, my brave-ones! Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Caricature, Le chêne et les roseaux, public domain cartoon image
The oak and the reeds Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Quelle sale réprésentation, mon Dieu!
What a disgusting company, my God! Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous
Speak up! Express yourself Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The license system illustrated by Cha's Jewell
An anti-Catholic temperance cartoon. To the left a group of officials debates the licensing of a tavern in Massachusetts in 1840. To the right the Pope sells licenses to rob and to murder in Rome in 1520. The c... More
Atmaram, Prime Minister of the chief of Koondooz; Naib Mah[omed] [Shur...
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Mahomed Umeen Khan, Walee of Khooloom, with his minister and attendant...
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1. Meer Alum Khan, Umleh Bashee; 2. Dost Mahomed Khan, Chaoosh Bashee;...
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Lamartine membre du gouvernement provisoire - ministre des affaires et...
Print shows Alphonse de Lamartine, three-quarter length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing left, with right elbow resting on a table and right hand at his chin. Signed on stone on lower left: M. Alophe. Incl... More
Atmaran" Hindoo of Peshawar - Public domain drawing
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Adolphe Crémieux - Public domain portrait engraving
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Hyder Khan, the governor of Ghuznee; Oosbegs of Mooraud Bey
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Chief executioner and assistant, of his majesty the late Shah; Mahomed...
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Après une discussion vive et animée..
Après une discussion vive et animée. Deux profils célèbres Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Un discours fatiguant pour le président..
Un discours fatiguant pour le président. Espièglerie que se permettait volontiers le jeune Estancelin, du temps ou le majestueux Barrot était Président du Conseil des Ministres, le majestueux Barrot ne ressembl... More