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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,069 works

Mezzotint of men tarring and feathering a figure beside a tar pot labeled Tea, with a Liberty Tree and ship masts behind.

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

Philip Dawe, October 31, 1774

Mezzotint of a barber lathering a seated man in a shop with wigs and portraits, with onlookers and a caption below.

The Patriotick Barber of New York, or the Captain in the Suds

Philip Dawe, February 14, 1775

Lithograph of men tarring and feathering a victim under a Liberty Tree beside ships, with a tea jug being poured over him.

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

David Claypoole Johnston, 1830

Satirical print of a feathered, tarred man held by a rope while a figure pours from a kettle beside a gallows frame.

A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston

David Claypoole Johnston, 1830

Engraving of women in period dress signing a pledge at a tea table in an interior, with a child and dog nearby.

A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina

Philip Dawe, March 25, 1775

Mezzotint of caricatured men behind bars above a boat, a tree labeled Liberty Tree, cannons and soldiers at right.

The Bostonians in Distress

Philip Dawe, November 19, 1774

Satirical 1775 print of men in tricorn hats around a clerk writing at a tobacco barrel, with a Liberty sign and hanging barre

The Alternative of Williams-Burg

Philip Dawe, February 16, 1775

Etched satire of a giant man blowing labelled bubbles over a cheering crowd in a city street, with a sun face at left.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Paul Sandwich [pseudonym], ca. 1762

Engraved satirical print War of Posts showing numbered political figures, a cannon, a devil, and a domed Constitution rotunda

War of Posts

Thomas Colley, May 1, 1782

Lithograph caricature of political figures playing bagatelle on a table labeled The Union Board, with cats and rats on the fl

A Little Game of Bagatelle, Between Old Abe the Rail Splitter & Little Mac the Gunboat General

John L. Magee, 1864

Engraved political caricature of a plumed costumed man facing a bearded man, with a skull, White House, and Hamlet quote.

Chicago Nominee: "I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest...Where be your gibes now?-Hamlet, Act IV [sic], Sce…

Justin H. Howard, 1864

Satirical street scene of the Bank of Maryland and insurance offices, with a winged devil above and a pig pulling a wheelbarr

Caricature of a Bank of Maryland Crisis

Crayon, ca. 1834

Stylized woman in black gown carrying a roast pig on a platter, with shamrock and geometric background; reads PROSIT 1911.

New Years Card: Cheers 1911 (Prosit)

Hans Kalmsteiner, 1910

Etching of four hanged men from a branch while feathered figures attack two European men on open ground.

The Savages Let Loose, or the Cruel Fate of the Loyalists

William Humphrey, 1783

Hand-colored 1778 caricature of five kneeling men pleading before a feathered figure seated on tobacco barrels, with swords o

The Commissioners

Matthew Darly, April 1, 1778

Hand-colored 1781 caricature of a balance scale with an allegorical woman holding a sword opposite caricatured figures on a s

The Ballance [sic] of Power

R. S., January 17, 1781

Engraved satire from 1778 showing a hanged admiral with vulture wings, men fighting, scattered tobacco rolls, and a town with

Va de Bon Coeur; Dédié aux Milords de l'Amirauté Anglaise par un Membre de Congrès Américain

Richard Purcell, 1778

Engraved satirical print of figures in 18th-century dress scuffling over bread and wool, with speech banners, in a brick inte

Amusement for John Bull & His Cousin Paddy, or, the Gambols of the American Buffalo, in St. James's Street

John Fielding, May 1, 1783

Satirical 18th-century etching of figures tugging a woman between groups, with a Liberty flag, a George for Ever ball and spe

The Reconciliation Between Britannia and Her Daughter America

Thomas Colley, May 11, 1782

Engraved 1781 print with two portrait medallions of Henry Laurens and Lord George Gordon above a hieroglyphic letter.

The Reply: A Complimentory [sic] Hieroglyphic Epistle from the Honorable Henry Laurens to Lord George Gordon

Henry Laurens, 1781

Engraved 1782 political caricature with a hunting party, ships at sea, a domed temple, and cannons labeled with colonial plac

The Royal Hunt, or a Prospect of the Year 1782: The Temple of Fame, formerly the Wonder of the World, but now in Ruins

George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend, February 16, 1782

Engraving of an allegorical woman among severed limbs labeled with colony names, above a scene of figures confronting each ot

The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion, designed and engraved for The Political Register

Benjamin Franklin, December 1768

Etching of a mournful procession past harbor warehouses and ships, with skulls and bales labeled Stamps from America.

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame - Stamp

Benjamin Wilson, March 18, 1766

Colored satirical print of Uncle Sam beside a Washington statue, with fireworks labeled gambling, Mormonism, and intemperance

Uncle Sam's Annual Celebration, Fire-Works of the Period, from "The Judge"

Thomas B. Worth, 1881-83

Hand-colored caricature of men riding rocking horses labeled with political causes, including Sub-Treasury and Abolition.

All on Hobbies, Gee Up, Gee Ho!

Edward Williams Clay, 1838

Hand-colored caricature of a corpse rising from a coffin as a startled man raises his arms, watched by horned devils.

A Galvanized Corpse

Henry R. Robinson, 1836

Hand-colored caricature of two uniformed men playing cribbage at a green card table, with a dog beside the chair at right.

A Game of Cribbage or Boney's Last Shuffle

George Cruikshank, June 6, 1814

Hand-colored caricature of five uniformed officers working a brick Allied Oven, with a crouched figure in blue in front.

The Allied Bakers or the Corsican Toad in the Hole

George Cruikshank, April 1, 1814

Hand-colored print of an old sculptor carving a cherub beside a seated nude model in a cluttered classical studio.

The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800

Hand-colored caricature of two men feasting at a seaside table under a tree, with personified food and drink figures climbing

Peace and Plenty or Good News for John Bull!!!

George Cruikshank, May 25, 1814