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Satirical 1829 print of a tilting building collapsing under a cherub's light as students flee, with bilingual captions below.

Spotprent op de opheffing van het Collegium Philosophicum, 1829

Eugène de Loose, 1829

Hand-colored print of a man in red uniform on a brown horse with a spotted saddle cloth, raising a riding crop before tents.

A Portrait

James Gillray, published March 17, 1809

Hand-colored satirical print of surgeons performing a leg amputation on a seated patient, with skeletons and a surgeons list

Amputation

Thomas Rowlandson, published October 17, 1793

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a charioteer with a lion and white horse rises through clouds beneath a sun labeled

Light Expelling Darkness,-Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,-or-The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the…

James Gillray, published April 30, 1795

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray showing a secret committee at a table and a crowd gazing at four violent scenes.

Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency, with its Effect Upon Patriotic Feelings

James Gillray, published April 15, 1799

Hand-colored satirical print of a boat labeled The Constitution sailing between a rock and a whirlpool, with struggling men i

Britannia Between Scylla and Charybdis

James Gillray, published April 8, 1793

Hand-coloured satirical print of a chaotic street with revolutionary soldiers, a bull, a guillotine, and a Liberty cap.

Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion

James Gillray, published October 20, 1796

Hand-colored caricature of human-faced pigs plunging off a cliff into the sea while a farmer with a pitchfork shouts at them.

The Pigs Possessed

James Gillray, published April 18, 1807

Hand-colored four-panel caricature of John Bull's progress from comfort to war, ruin and a maimed veteran's return.

John Bulls Progress

James Gillray, published June 3, 1793

Hand-coloured satirical etching in four panels showing petitioners, a throne, crowds in top hats and cattle, by James Gillray

Patriotic Petitions on the Convention

James Gillray, published October, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a crowded parliament chamber with red-capped figures, scales, money bags and a crown.

Patriotic Regeneration, -viz. - Parliament Reform'd, a la Françoise...

James Gillray, published March 2, 1795

Hand-colored print of a seated Chinese emperor receiving a kneeling European diplomat amid courtiers and gifts in an ornate h

Reception of the Diplomatique & his Suite, at the Court of Pekin

James Gillray, published September 14, 1792

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a kilted man fires a cannon from a rock while a bear rides a boat in stormy seas.

Bruin in his Boat

James Gillray, published June 20, 1806

Hand-colored etching of courtiers and fashionably dressed women gathered in an ornate room beside an open door, by James Gill

The Bridal Night

James Gillray, published May 18, 1797

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a robed figure drops a mantle to kneeling men on an altar, facing a winged dark spi

Disciples Catching the Mantle

James Gillray, published June 25, 1808

Hand-coloured satirical print of women dressing soldiers in yellow flannel uniforms in a stone room, with swords and helmets

Flannel Armour; Female Patriotism

James Gillray, published November 18, 1793

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray showing sans-culottes figures feeding bread to Europe, with labeled regions and John

Sans-culottes

James Gillray, n.d.

Grey wash print of a woman in a plumed hat seated while a man kneels and gazes up at her beside a drape.

Courtship in High Life

Thomas Rowlandson, December 15, 1785

Hand-colored caricature print with two scenes, a shooting party and a fishing party, held by exaggerated figures with dogs an

Jagend en vissend gezelschap

George Cruikshank, 1800

Lithograph of two laden men with walking sticks trudging across bare ground toward distant trees.

A la recherche d'une forêt en Champagne (In Search of a Forest in Champagne)

Honoré Daumier, 1847

Hand-coloured print of a seated writer in blue robe whose eyes are covered by a grinning horned devil behind him.

Schrijver en de duivel

Cham, 1828

Lithograph of a couple in large crinoline dresses and a man crouching beneath a huge skirt sheltering on a grassy field.

La Crinoline-Abri

Charles Vernier, 1848

Lithograph of two women talking in a market street under an awning, one carrying a basket, by Paul Gavarni.

"Voyons! Mme Majeste..."

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Lithograph of a crowded masquerade in an arched hall, with costumed dancers below and spectators on balconies above.

Mascarade

Paul Gavarni, c. 1831

Lithograph of a man reading a sketchbook on a sofa while a woman leans on his shoulder, by Paul Gavarni.

Quand on pense...

Paul Gavarni, 1839

Lithograph of a man and a woman dancing in a ballroom while top-hatted men look on, in a satirical 1831 print.

Pas d'Infanterie

Charles Vernier

Hand-coloured caricature of a French flotilla on a stormy sea, with men straining at a capstan on the right shore.

Spotprent op de Franse plannen voor een invasie van Engeland, 1798

James Gillray, 1798

Daumier lithograph of two men and a woman with a parasol on an open plain, one man gesturing toward a distant house.

At Varenne, Saint-Maur. “There! My country house", plate 418 from Souvenirs d’artistes

Honoré Daumier, 1862

Lithograph of top-hatted men laughing at an outdoor café table under trees, with a waiter and another man at right.

“- I never laughed so much as at the funeral of Bourdin's daughter.......” (Henri Monnier), plate 303 from Souvenirs…

Honoré Daumier, 1862

Hand-colored print of a crowded Regency evening party with dancers, card players and a chandelier in a gilded salon.

An Evening Party

George Cruikshank, February 3, 1826