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Pencil-style lithograph of two Hague buildings, the Societeit de Place-Royale and the Sint Jacobskerk with scaffolding, 1862.

Spotprent op recente restauraties in Den Haag, 1862

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1862

Caricature print of a crowned eagle and a winged man at a gate, with a rooster, peacock and swans in a bird park, 1862.

Spotprent op de Pruisen en Frankrijk, 1862

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1862

Caricature of a merchant at a counter showing model ships Merrimac and Monitor to customers, with cotton bales beside him.

Spotprent op de nieuwe Amerikaanse oorlogsschepen, 1862

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1862

Lithographic medal design showing a robed allegorical figure of Justice holding scales beside a pedestal with a book, dated 1

Spotprent op de vereniging van de ministeries van Erediensten, Justitie en Buitenlandse Zaken, 1862

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1862

Lithograph of two men carrying a large heating apparatus labeled Verwarmingstoestel past a street with Koloniën and Bronbeek

Spotprent op het mislukte verwarmingstoestel van het Ministerie van Koloniën, 1862

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1862

Caricature of a crossbow-wielding man in Tell costume kicking a boat marked Tractaat into the Maas river.

Spotprent op de minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Van der Maesen de Sombreff, 1862

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1862

Pen drawing of a robed man beside a laboratory flask holding a homunculus labeled MINISTER, with books and glassware.

Spotprent op de politieke crisis, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Caricature of a giant top hat labeled Stembus Verkiezingen Juni 1883 above parliamentary benches in a Dutch chamber.

Spotprent met het nieuwe kabinet Heemskerk, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Pen drawing of men at a table with constitution books labeled 1814 to 1848 and a gavel, under a bust, 1883 cartoon.

Spotprent met de commissie voor grondwetsherziening, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Caricature of men in top hats carrying a draped coffin labeled Herziening through a graveyard, 1883 political print.

Politieke spotprent waarin enkele wetsvoorstellen ten grave worden gedragen, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Printed Dutch page titled Verklaring der Afbeeldingen listing numbered illustrations, artists and engravers in columns.

Spotprent op de antirevolutionnairen, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Line drawing of men carrying political banners around a ballot box, a satirical print about the June 1883 elections.

Spotprent op de verkiezingen in juni, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Pen drawing of two seated men in tall wicker chairs conversing, with printed Dutch dialogue captions below.

Spotprent op de uitslag van de verkiezingen van juni, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Political cartoon of a worried seated man as a grim reaper with a sword points to ATJEH, 1883.

Spotprent op Atjeh problematiek, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Ink caricature of four robed men in an ornate interior, two holding lit torches, under a Dutch 1883 caption.

Spotprent op de verkiezingen te Delft, 1883

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1883

Etched caricature of a coiled rattlesnake over a mountain landscape, with tent encampments in its coils, by James Gillray, 17

The American Rattle Snake

James Gillray, April 12, 1782

Satirical street scene of the Bank of Maryland and insurance offices, with a winged devil above and a pig pulling a wheelbarr

Caricature of a Bank of Maryland Crisis

Crayon, ca. 1834

Hand-colored caricature of two uniformed men playing cribbage at a green card table, with a dog beside the chair at right.

A Game of Cribbage or Boney's Last Shuffle

George Cruikshank, June 6, 1814

Hand-colored caricature of five uniformed officers working a brick Allied Oven, with a crouched figure in blue in front.

The Allied Bakers or the Corsican Toad in the Hole

George Cruikshank, April 1, 1814

Hand-colored print of an old sculptor carving a cherub beside a seated nude model in a cluttered classical studio.

The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800

Hand-colored caricature of two men feasting at a seaside table under a tree, with personified food and drink figures climbing

Peace and Plenty or Good News for John Bull!!!

George Cruikshank, May 25, 1814

Hand-colored print of a crowned man in costume carrying a theatre building on his head, with red curtains and an angel above.

The Theatrical Atlas

George Cruikshank, May 7, 1814

Hand-colored print of the crowded Covent Garden Theatre interior, with tiered galleries, audience, and performers on stage.

Covent Garden Theatre

Thomas Rowlandson, 1792

Daumier lithograph of a horse entering a doorway as a man in a checked robe and nightcap looks on, with city rooftops beyond.

Plaisanterie que se permettent maintenant les chevaux, dans le quatier des Champs-Élysées, No. 523 from series Actual…

Honoré Daumier, March 22, 1858

Hand-colored print of a skeleton pouring wine for an old man beside a young woman on a sofa, with a soldier at the window.

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

Thomas Rowlandson, August 1, 1814

Daumier lithograph of crowded theater gallery spectators leaning into an animated literary argument over a balcony railing.

A Literary Discussion in the Second Tier, from "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, February 27, 1864

Caricature lithograph of an elderly man presenting a laurel wreath to women seated in an ornate hall with busts.

Academy of Women, from "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, August 2, 1843

Hand-colored print of a skeleton wheeling a drunk man in a barrow past a woman with a cane and a thatched inn.

The Sot (The English Dance of Death, plate 12)

Thomas Rowlandson, July 1814

Hand-colored caricature of antiquarian gentlemen gathered around a table of antiquities, with a speaker holding a relic.

Bijeenkomst van The Society of Antiquaries

George Cruikshank, 1812

Caricature lithograph of men struggling under a heavy crown, one man in a top hat holding it aloft, with a French caption bel

Spotprent op de leden van het Voorlopig Bewind, 1830

Monogrammist DE, 1830