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Art Institute of Chicago

24,213 works

Hand-colored caricature of John Bull and a drummer figure on a plank over the sea, with a crowd and speech scrolls.

Preliminaries of Peace

James Gillray, published October 6, 1801

Hand-colored caricature of a sow nursing many piglets with human faces, watched by a farmer with a pitchfork.

More Pigs Than Teats

James Gillray, published March 5, 1806

Hand-colored Gillray caricature of a tax collector knocking at a brick house while a man shouts from the window above.

Friend of the People

James Gillray, published May 28, 1806

Hand-colored satirical etching of a woman boarding a ship with help from a naval officer while sailors and a startled clergym

Female Intrepidity

George Cruikshank, 1816

Hand-colored caricature of a man reading music while a woman plays a harp in a richly furnished room with a cat.

Harmony Before Matrimony

James Gillray, published October 25, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of a domestic parlor: a singing woman at a harpsichord, a man reading a newspaper, and a nurse with a

Matrimonial-Harmonics

James Gillray, published October 25, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of rats with human faces fleeing a columned doorway away from a parliament chamber.

Parliamentary Reform

James Gillray, published May 28, 1797

Hand-colored caricature of a man in blue leaving the Treasury as a crowd throws objects and a soldier looks on.

Integrity Retiring from Office

James Gillray, published February 24, 1801

Hand-colored caricature of a bank counter with crowds grasping paper notes, by James Gillray, 1797.

Bank-Notes, Paper-Money

James Gillray, published March 1, 1797

Hand-colored satirical etching of a man lunging at an old woman holding banknotes beside a Bank of England strongbox, 1797.

Political-Ravishment

James Gillray, published May 22, 1797

Hand-colored caricature of a giant Midas figure with gold-coin body spewing paper notes over the Bank of England and crowds.

Midas, Transmuting All, Into Paper

James Gillray, published March 9, 1797

Hand-colored satirical print of a caricatured alchemist heating a crown at a furnace beside a glass retort and spilling gold

The Dissolution; or The Alchymist Producing an Aetherial Representation

James Gillray, published May 21, 1796

Hand-colored etching of witches conjuring a skeleton with PEACE above a cauldron of gold coins, with a monkey and rooster bel

A Phantasmagoria - Scene - Conjuring up an Armed Skeleton

James Gillray, published January 5, 1803

Hand-colored caricature of three people drinking punch at a table, with a stout gouty man in a yellow robe laughing in a gree

Punch Cures the Gout, the Colic, and the 'Tisick

James Gillray, published July 13, 1799

Hand-colored caricature of a man whipping a horse pulling a carriage with a woman in a pink gown and feathered hat.

Cockney and His Wife Going to Wycombe

James Gillray, published June 10, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of a carriage whose passengers tumble out onto a road as a woman sprawls and a dog barks.

One of the Advantages of a Low Carriage

James Gillray, published June 1, 1801

Hand-coloured caricature of travellers in an inn passage, with an old woman holding a fan and a man with a birdcage and cat.

An Old Maid on a Journey

James Gillray, published November 20, 1804

Crowded harbour with cheering people in boats, tall sailing ships, a steamship, and a hillside town under a hazy sky.

The Landing of Her Majesty and Her Royal Highness Prince Albert, in Ireland

George Baxter, 1850

Sheet music cover showing spectators in rowing boats cheering in a harbour with tall ships and a hillside town.

The Landing of Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert in Ireland

George Baxter, 1850

Colour print of a gondola with a yellow canopy passing under a stone bridge beside tall Verona buildings at evening.

Verona, Evening Scene

George Baxter, 1850

Printed fan leaf with three rococo cartouches showing figures in interior scenes and verse text, after William Hogarth.

Plates four, five, and six from A Harlot's Progress

William Hogarth, 1732/61

Hand-coloured print of a couple in period dress on a garden terrace beside a cherub fountain and urns.

The Reconciliation

George Baxter, 1852

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled hair, mustache and goatee, wearing a lace collar and dark cloak.

Philippe Le Roy

Anthony van Dyck, 1630/40

Colour print of visitors viewing three marble sculptures in a Great Exhibition hall, including a woman with a lion.

Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 2

George Baxter, 1852

Colour print of visitors viewing marble statues and a draped nude sculpture in a glass-roofed exhibition hall.

Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 3

George Baxter, 1852

Colour print of a glass-roofed exhibition hall with marble statues on red pedestals and visitors in period dress.

Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 4

George Baxter, 1852/54

Gold-toned print of a sculpture: a woman on a centaur-like body spears a beast on a rocky base, on a red pedestal.

Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 6

George Baxter, 1854

Black and white print of beech trees with bare branches and a small wooden hut at lower right, by Lovis Corinth.

Beech Woods, from Early Spring in the Mountains

Lovis Corinth, published 1922

Title page of Baxter's Gems of the Great Exhibition showing a veiled statue holding a flame on a red pedestal.

Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 7, The Veiled Vestal

George Baxter, 1854

Colored print of a marble dog fighting a serpent on a red pedestal, with visitors in an exhibition hall under a FRANCE sign.

The Dog and the Serpent (The Defence)

George Baxter, 1854