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24,198 works

Hand-coloured caricature of a French flotilla with LIBERTY flag in a storm, with figures clinging to a post on a rocky shore.

The Storm Rising

James Gillray, publilshed February 1, 1798

Hand-colored caricature of a crowded 1804 election procession with a carriage, pullers, flags and a drummer.

Middlesex Election

James Gillray, published August 7, 1804

Hand-colored caricature of mourners in a funeral procession carrying a draped coffin toward a stone church with a speech ball

The Funeral Procession of Broad-Bottom

James Gillray, published April 6, 1807

Hand-colored print of men in wigs and period dress gathering in an elegant hall with framed landscapes and candelabra.

The Bengal Levee

James Gillray, published November 9, 1792

Hand-colored etching of a crowded barracks interior with soldiers, women, children, swords and a suit of armor on the wall.

French Barracks

Thomas Rowlandson, published August 12, 1791

Hand-colored caricature of officers drinking, smoking and playing horns in a crowded military tent, with a Union flag on the

Fatigues of the Campaign in Flanders

James Gillray, published May 20, 1793

Hand-colored caricature of theatrical performers and musicians crowded in a green room with a harlequin dancing.

Dilettanti-Theatricals

James Gillray, published February 18, 1803

Four hand-coloured panels showing a patient being bled, vomiting, purging, and then dining with a companion.

Breathing a Vein

James Gillray, published January 28, 1804

Hand-colored caricature of a funeral procession with a donkey-drawn car, banners and a gallows, by George Cruikshank, 1819.

The Funeral Procession of the Rump

George Cruikshank, published March 22, 1819

Hand-coloured print of two dancers on stage before a crowded tiered theatre audience in 18th-century dress.

The Prospect Before Us

Thomas Rowlandson, 1791

Hand-colored etching of a crowded clifftop promenade at Brighton with donkeys, parasols, a dog, and ships on the sea.

Morning Promenade Upon the Cliff, Brighton

James Gillray, published January 24, 1806

Hand-colored print of a shivering man in a top hat and green coat walking through rain past a gnarled tree and crow.

Raw Weather

James Gillray, published February 10, 1808

Hand-colored print of a woman with a green umbrella on pattens crossing a rainy street beside a basket seller.

Wet Under Foot

Thomas Rowlandson, published February 10, 1812

Hand-colored etching of a farm family showing their daughter at a piano to seated neighbors in a crowded parlor.

Farmer Giles & His Wife Shewing off their Daughter Betty to their Neighbors, on her Return from School

James Gillray, published January 1, 1809

Sepia etching of a crowded Sunday concert with musicians around a harpsichord and an audience in period dress.

A Sunday Concert

James Bretherton, n.d.

Hand-colored caricature of a man in a top hat riding a wooden hobby horse with red wheels on a dirt path.

Pedestrian Hobby Horse

J. Lewis Marks, n.d.

Hand-colored caricature of two men driving a carriage pulled by three goats past a rocky cliff, with a whip raised overhead.

A Welch Tandem

James Gillray, published June 21, 1801

Hand-colored caricature of two bailiffs chasing a laughing rider on a hobby horse along a dirt road, with a dog and farmer.

Bum Bailiff Out-Dones

J. Lewis Marks, April 1, 1819

Hand-colored 1819 caricature of three riders on a long-backed hobby horse, a man, a feathered woman, and an attendant, on a r

The New Long Back'd Hobby made to carry Three without Kicking

Attributed to William Heath, published June 19, 1819

Hand-colored caricature of a laughing dandy on a wooden velocipede pushed uphill by a servant, with a postilion riding a dog.

The Dandy and His Postillion - or the Waay to Laugh Up Hill

Attributed to William Heath, 1819

Hand-colored 1819 caricature of a rider on a black horse racing a man on a wooden velocipede before a cheering crowd.

Match Against Time, or Wood beats Blood and Bone

Charles Williams, published April 17, 1819

Hand-colored caricature of a carriage with a gentleman and lady pulled by riders on velocipedes toward a racecourse.

Going to the Races

Attributed to William Heath, published May 14, 1819

Coloured print of a Chinese girls' school classroom with rows of students at benches, a teacher and lattice-screened walls.

Miss Aldersey's School at Ningpo

George Baxter, 1847

Hand-colored satirical print of a cloaked figure with raised sword beside a helmeted rider on a bicycle near a battlefield.

New Reading, or Shakspeare [sic] Improved. Humbly Dedicated to the Keen Critic of Drury Lane, by a Poor Author

Charles Williams, 1819

Hand-colored caricature of a man pedaling a carriage with a woman, monkeys, a cat, a dog and a parrot in a cage.

A Family Party Taking an Airing

Attributed to William Heath, 1819

Hand-colored 1819 caricature of dandy riders on early velocipedes, with a startled woman between them on a dusty road.

Hobbies or Attitude is Everything, Dedicated with permission to all Dandy Horsemen

Attributed to William Heath, published April 17, 1819

Hand-colored caricature of velocipede riders on a hill, one gentleman speeding downhill as others crash or carry their machin

The Pedestrian Hobbies, or the Difference of Going Up and Down Hill

Attributed to William Heath, published April 8, 1819

Hand-colored print of a clergyman riding a wooden velocipede past a cottage with a family, mountains behind.

The Parson's Hobby, or Comfort for a Welch Curate

Charles Williams, 1819

Hand-colored caricature of eight men riding odd velocipedes shaped like a cannon, fish, goose and Bible, 1819.

Everyone His Hobby, plate 1

Attributed to William Heath, published April 24, 1819

Hand-colored caricature of eight men riding odd hobby-horses, including a goat, a bull, and a barrel, labeled by occupation o

Everyone His Hobby, plate 2

Attributed to William Heath, published April 24, 1819