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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Color cartoon of a woman in Greek dress strangling two serpents with human heads labeled socialism and anarchism.

Order Reigns in Chicago!, from Puck

C. Jay Taylor, published April 18, 1887

Colored cartoon of a workingman and an elderly farmer conversing on a street with factory and general store signs.

After Election, from Puck

Joseph Keppler, published November 5, 1890

Satirical cartoon of trust figures pressing a McKinley Bill box on a farmer and laborer while coins fall into a FAT bucket.

Who Cares?, from Puck

C. Jay Taylor, published October 15, 1890

Colour cartoon of eight caricatured men on auction crates under political vote placards, with bidders seated below, 1888.

Grand Presidential Auction Sale, from Puck

C. Jay Taylor, 1888

Political cartoon: a man in a dark suit whips a lion wrapped in a Union Jack while caricatured men in striped hats hold back.

The Man Who Dares - and the Men who Dare N't, from Puck

C. Jay Taylor, published September 5, 1888

Colored cartoon of a man pulling a tree labeled Spoils System while a man in plaid holds a Civil Service Reform sign.

Getting Rid of the Spoils System Deadwood, from Puck

Joseph Keppler, published August 17, 1887

Puck cover: a wildcat labeled Wild-Cat Banks leaps at a top-hatted man near Republican Headquarters, 1892 cartoon.

The Latest Republican Bugaboo, from Puck

William Allen Rogers, published November 2, 1892

Lithograph of caricatured men with padlocks over their mouths beside a basket of padlocks and keys, satirizing press censorsh

Muzzling the Press, from Puck

C. Jay Taylor, published May, 1889

Color cartoon of a donkey cart blocked by rocks, with the White House in the distance and quoted text on the cliffs.

The Second Term Road Blocked, from Judge

Grant Hamilton, 1884

Colour political cartoon of two men covered in accusation placards on a stage, one in prison stripes, captioned Shining Light

Shining Lights of the Grand Old Party

Frederick Burr Opper, 1890

Colored comic print of hunters tumbling from gunfire in a marsh while ducks fly off, with a dog and a standing hunter.

First Blood for the Blue Grass Club

Augustus Hoppin, n.d.

Colour lithograph of a boy reading in an armchair as old fairy-tale and adventure characters gather around him in a parlour.

The Era of Progress in Children's Literature, from Puck

Frederick Burr Opper, c. 1886

Colored cartoon by Bernard Gillam showing an American workman questioning stout John Bull at Castle Garden, with English work

Why?, from Judge

Bernard Gillam, published July 21, 1888

Satirical lithograph of a filthy bather on a polluted beach holding a bottle, with dead animals and steamships marked dumping

The Last Bather, from Puck

Joseph Keppler, 1880

Engraved cartoon of a hydra with human heads labeled National League holding dynamite, with smaller vignettes around it.

The 'League' Hydras Gone Wrong in Its Heads, from Judy

W. B., published December 7, 1887

Political cartoon of a man sitting in a large SOUP bowl, steam rising, with signs about wage cuts and factory closures.

Who Is in the Soup Now, from Puck

Louis Dalrymple, published May, 1889

Crowded engraved caricature of a huge musical festival with brass bands, choirs, and a piano, banners naming cities, and a ba

Let Us Have Peace! -Fortissimo, from Harper's Weekly

Charles Green Bush, published June 19, 1869

Black and white satirical print with a vine border, Uncle Sam, a sailing ship, and a column of short political notes.

September, from Life

F. G. Atwood, 1887

Circular 1887 caricature titled October, with zodiac labels, crowded satirical figures, and a devil above kneeling missionari

October

F. G. Atwood, 1887

Thomas Nast cartoon of two fists with money cuffs gripping a US crib, under a papal tiara, crossed keys, and an Irish heart.

Their Coat of Arms

Thomas Nast, published April 11, 1889

Engraved caricature of a man in a top hat refusing a shoeshine from a grinning sun figure with a box labeled SUN.

Young Sol and Greely, from Harper's Weekly

Frank Beard, published May 1, 1869

Engraved cartoon of a kneeling man reaching toward boots while a bearded man peers from a curtain.

Drop 'Em

Thomas Nast, 1872

Strip of seven circular pen drawings satirizing political events of the week, including Santa Claus, the Lexow committee and

Pen Pictures of The Leading Events of the Week, from Chicago Tribune

H. R. H., published December 30, 1894

Horizontal strip of pen-and-ink political cartoons with Uncle Sam, an eagle, and a Don Quixote figure, 1893.

Pen Pictures of the Leading Events of the Last Week, from Chicago Tribune

H. R. H., published Feb 26, 1893

Hand-colored woodcut of a walled town with red roofs and towers, with German text and two saints above.

Geneva from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel’s World History), Plate 22 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

Michel Wolgemut, 1493, portfolio assembled 1929

Engraving of nude putti carrying grapes, baskets and fruit around a barrel and a goat, dated 1529.

Children Gathering Grapes

Master I.B., 1529

Old Man Looking Downwards, Old Man Seen from the Front, Profile of an Old Man with a Beard, Old Man in a Striped Robe

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1775

Four etched studies of elderly bearded men wearing different hats and caps, arranged in a grid on a cream sheet.

Old Man with a Conical Hat, Old Man with a Hat, Old Man with a Beard, Bearded Old Man with a Cap

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1775

Old Man with a Beard, Bearded Old Man with a Hat, Old Man with Decorative Cap

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1775

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in black and pink robes with a snake on his staff beneath a snowy tree.

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Aza-maru in the Play Yui Kanoko Date-zome Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1774