Caricature & Satire

Ink caricature by Thomas Rowlandson showing an archer aiming a bow beside wrestling men and a fallen figure with speech ballo

Caricature of a journalist striding over rocky ground holding a journal and a Johnson biography, with ruins and mountains beh

Pen and ink caricature of two men walking arm in arm up a cobbled street, one holding a walking stick.

Hand-colored caricature of an elderly man in a wig and red coat with a young woman in a bonnet and grey cloak beside him.

Hand-colored caricature print with six male heads in a row, wearing crowns, a liberty cap and a feathered hat, with captions

Hand-colored caricature print of five exaggerated male heads with wigs and cravats, titled Oddities, 1792.

Hand-colored caricature print of five exaggerated male heads in wigs and period coats, with grotesque expressions.

Hand-colored print of six vignettes showing a woman applying makeup before a mirror, with caricatured expressions.

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man in a dark coat whose buttons strain as a thin man in red tugs at his waistcoat.

Hand-colored caricature of two wigged men playing cards at a round table, one in blue coat and one in orange coat.

Hand-colored caricature of a pig in human dress with blue coat and spectacles beside a cottage and fence.

Engraved caricature of a woman with a parasol and fur muff in exaggerated 1801 fashion, titled Light Summer Cloathing.

Etched caricature of a grotesque bronze figure on a pedestal, with two men in period dress looking on and handwritten dialogu

Hand-colored print of a stout man drinking from a bowl as a skeleton looms behind him beside scattered bottles and jugs.

Hand-colored caricature of a man in a green coat and yellow trousers with a huge wide-brimmed hat and a twisted walking stick

Hand-colored caricature of four fashionable 1801 figures, including a monocled stout man, a woman with a parasol, and a dandy

Hand-colored caricature of a councillor in a white wig and blue cloak gesturing while holding papers, with a startled onlooke

Hand-colored 1802 caricature of an elderly man in a plumed hat leading a laughing woman in a white gown down a street.

Hand-colored caricature of a young man in a high collar, frilled shirt and yellow breeches holding a black hat.

Hand-colored caricature of a musical family: a stout man singing, a woman playing cello, children with drum and triangle, and

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man in blue and a thin woman in pink facing each other, nose to nose, 1802.