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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,889 works

Hand-colored caricature of two stout figures with canes, a woman in a feathered hat, a tombstone, and framed fox scenes.

For The Benefit of The Champion

Thomas Rowlandson, May 20, 1784

Hand-colored satirical print of a drummer leading a street procession with flags, placards and a crowd beside a colonnade.

The Westminster Deserter Drum'd Out of The Regiment

Thomas Rowlandson, May 18, 1784

Pen and ink caricature of three men seated at a table with a teapot, one reading a document, titled Money Lenders.

Money Lenders

Thomas Rowlandson, November 8, 1784

Etching of a painter disturbed in his studio by visitors while a nude woman reclines nearby.

Intrusion on Study or The Painter Disturbed

Thomas Rowlandson, November 30, 1785

Hand-colored print of five men in powdered wigs and 18th-century dress conferring together outdoors, some leaning on canes.

The Consultation

Thomas Rowlandson, September 1785

Caricature of men in top hats around a table playing the thimble rig, with speech bubbles above the figures.

The Thimble Rig: "A Scene from the Derby"

John Doyle, July 10, 1834

Caricature sketch of a horse-drawn Public Reform omnibus with top-hatted men beside and atop it, dated 1834.

New State Omnibus, or, The Man wot is Cad to the Man wot was Cad to the Man wot drove the Sovereign

John Doyle, December 24, 1834

Etching of two men quarrelling in a cluttered interior while a woman sits beside them, with a jug and dead rat on the floor.

A Cully Pillag'd

Thomas Rowlandson, November 30, 1785

Etching of a startled bedroom scene with figures around a bed, a lantern and candle, by Thomas Rowlandson.

The Sad Discovery; or, the Graceless Apprentice

Thomas Rowlandson, November 30, 1785