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Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a charioteer with a lion and white horse rises through clouds beneath a sun labeled

Light Expelling Darkness,-Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,-or-The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the…

James Gillray, published April 30, 1795

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray showing a secret committee at a table and a crowd gazing at four violent scenes.

Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency, with its Effect Upon Patriotic Feelings

James Gillray, published April 15, 1799

Hand-colored satirical print of a boat labeled The Constitution sailing between a rock and a whirlpool, with struggling men i

Britannia Between Scylla and Charybdis

James Gillray, published April 8, 1793

Hand-coloured satirical print of a chaotic street with revolutionary soldiers, a bull, a guillotine, and a Liberty cap.

Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion

James Gillray, published October 20, 1796

Hand-colored caricature of human-faced pigs plunging off a cliff into the sea while a farmer with a pitchfork shouts at them.

The Pigs Possessed

James Gillray, published April 18, 1807

Hand-colored four-panel caricature of John Bull's progress from comfort to war, ruin and a maimed veteran's return.

John Bulls Progress

James Gillray, published June 3, 1793

Hand-coloured satirical etching in four panels showing petitioners, a throne, crowds in top hats and cattle, by James Gillray

Patriotic Petitions on the Convention

James Gillray, published October, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a crowded parliament chamber with red-capped figures, scales, money bags and a crown.

Patriotic Regeneration, -viz. - Parliament Reform'd, a la Françoise...

James Gillray, published March 2, 1795

Hand-colored print of a seated Chinese emperor receiving a kneeling European diplomat amid courtiers and gifts in an ornate h

Reception of the Diplomatique & his Suite, at the Court of Pekin

James Gillray, published September 14, 1792

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a kilted man fires a cannon from a rock while a bear rides a boat in stormy seas.

Bruin in his Boat

James Gillray, published June 20, 1806

Hand-colored etching of courtiers and fashionably dressed women gathered in an ornate room beside an open door, by James Gill

The Bridal Night

James Gillray, published May 18, 1797

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a robed figure drops a mantle to kneeling men on an altar, facing a winged dark spi

Disciples Catching the Mantle

James Gillray, published June 25, 1808

The Sphinx

Odilon Redon, 1883

Hand-colored caricature of a gilded statue with a Budget scroll on a tax-labeled pedestal, with onlookers.

The Brazen Image Erected on a Pedestal Wrought by Himself

Charles Williams, published May 29, 1802

Hand-coloured satirical print of women dressing soldiers in yellow flannel uniforms in a stone room, with swords and helmets

Flannel Armour; Female Patriotism

James Gillray, published November 18, 1793

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray showing sans-culottes figures feeding bread to Europe, with labeled regions and John

Sans-culottes

James Gillray, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a glowing nebula-like orb with radiating rays and stars in a dark night sky above a horizon.

Le Nebuleuse

Odilon Redon, 1875/80

Vision

Odilon Redon, 1895/97

Drawing of a young man in a powdered wig and white collar, one hand on an open book at a table.

The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana

Odilon Redon, 1883

Brown drawing of a helmeted figure leaning over a cauldron holding a skull and a pale face amid dark smoke.

Cauldron of the Sorceress

Odilon Redon, 1879

Charcoal drawing of a pale face with large eyes atop a curved stem, dark petals behind it, and fallen leaves on the ground.

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

Odilon Redon, 1880

Woodblock print of a seated woman in a teal kimono tying thread beside a sewing box and spool.

Tying Thread, from the series “Women’s Handicrafts: Models of Dexterity" ("Fujin tewaza ayatsuri kagami")

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1797/98

Three women in kimono play poem cards on a pink mat in a room with shoji screens, by Suzuki Harunobu.

Young Women Playing Poem Cards

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1766/67

Japanese woodblock print of two women seated at a shop with hair ornaments on display, willow curtain, and a rooster below.

Ofuji, the Shop Girl of the Motoyanagiya, with a Customer

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

Engraved river landscape with fishermen on a wooden landing, a water wheel mill, a rowing boat and tall trees under a cloudy

The Young Waltonians

David Lucas, 1840

Ink drawing of a symmetrical ceiling design with rows of stylized peacocks, geometric rosettes, and decorative borders.

Ceiling Design with Peacock Motif

Louis H. Sullivan, 1876

Pen-and-ink print of steep-gabled half-timbered houses with balconies, trees, and two seated figures in the foreground.

The Neighborhood, from Revue Fantaisiste

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1861

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures in a courtyard beneath a large arched wooden structure.

Noah's Ark

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1660

Pen and brown ink sketch of thatched farm buildings beside a waterway, with a moored boat and trees in the foreground.

A Farm on the Amsteldijk, Seen from the Northwest

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650/53

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated nude woman with bowed head on a stool, against a shaded background.

Seated Female Nude

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1660/62