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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,935 works

Engraving of a crowded satirical schoolroom with a donkey at a doorway, a central teacher in a tall cap and many reading pupi

The Ass at School

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1557

Engraving of a cluttered room with men grabbing sacks, barrels and goods, a village and tents visible through a window.

Everyman

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1558

A Sketch (Portrait of George Stubbs)

James Bretherton, second half 18th century

Reddish-brown engraving of a woman holding an ornate parasol beside potted plants, a flowering branch and a stone pedestal wi

The Parasol, from "L'Artiste"

François Boucher, 19th century

Red-toned engraving of a woman in a long gown beside a child with a parasol, with a cat at her feet and a garden behind.

Woman Playing with a Cat

François Boucher, 19th century

Sepia engraving of a woman with two children beside a wooden instrument and a rooster, within a floral border.

A Woman and Children Playing with a Chinese Gong

François Boucher, 19th century

Red-toned engraving of a shepherd and young women in a bower with goats and sheep, a garden wall and a distant building.

A Shepherd and Young Women in a Bower, from "L'Artiste"

LeGrand, 19th century

Red printed title page with ornate interlace border and central cartouche reading L'Artiste, on aged paper.

Title page for the magazine "L'Artiste"

Charles-Ernest Clerget, ca. 1870-72

Etching of a harbor basin with tall sailing ships, rowboats with figures, and a distant tower under an overcast sky.

Commercial Basin, from "L'Artiste"

Auguste Ballin, 1867-71

Hand-colored print of a chaotic theatre crowd in top hats and bonnets fighting for seats, watched from a box above.

Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 2: Contending for a Seat

Theodore Lane, ca. 1835

Hand-colored caricature of a crowded theatre pit entrance, with top-hatted men and women in pink and yellow pushing and falli

Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 1: Crowding to the Pit

Theodore Lane, ca. 1835

Hand-colored print of a crowded theater gallery with packed spectators, a woman with a fan, and a man in a blue coat in the f

Theatrical Pleasures, ( Snug in the Gallery, Plate 3)

Theodore Lane, ca. 1835

Hand-colored print of a crowded theatre doorway where a stout woman and two girls confront a gentleman in a brown coat.

Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 4: Taken Places Occupied

Theodore Lane, ca. 1835

Hand-colored print of fashionable crowd feasting and drinking in a theatre saloon, with feathered hats and a seated gentleman

Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 5: Feasting in the Saloon

Theodore Lane, ca. 1835

Hand-coloured caricature of a dandy with monocle and powdered wig gesturing toward a woman in a white bonnet and gown.

Buck's Beauty and Rowlandson's Connoisseur

Piercy Roberts, January 1, 1800

Etching of a barber shaving a seated man in a room of wig stands and a wall map, a political caricature by James Sayers, 1783

Razor's Levée, or Ye Heads of a New Wig Ad[ministration] on a Broad Bottom

James Sayers, April 21, 1783

Hand-colored print of a crowd gazing at caricature prints in a shop window labeled P. Roberts, Holborn.

Caricature Shop of Piercy Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn

Piercy Roberts, 1801

Etched caricature of two fashionable women in plumed hats leaning toward a barrow man with a wheelbarrow of eggs.

The Go-Between or Barrow Man Embarrass'd

George Townley Stubbs, May 15, 1786

Hand-colored caricature of a tall man and a woman in a green bonnet walking, with a small figure pointing at them.

Long Thomas and Mad-le G-d Going to the Pantheon in Their Natural Masks

William Austin, May 1, 1773

Etching of a line of 18th-century figures in tall bonnets and tricorn hats walking along a coastal cliff path.

A Trip to Scarborough

James Bretherton, March 3, 1783

Hand-colored caricature of figures in a windstorm on a road, with a rider on a red horse and a flying hat.

A Hail Storm

Henry William Bunbury, 1800-20

Satirical 1776 print of exaggerated fashionable figures in tall headdresses at a crowded party, with a servant carrying a tra

The City Rout

Richard St. George Mansergh St. George, May 20, 1776

Hand-colored caricature of a feathered-hat dandy with raised sword sprawled on a lawn while balcony onlookers cheer.

The Gay Lothario. The Great and Celebrated Amateur of Fashion

William Elmes, March 16, 1813

Lithograph of a three-headed dog labeled with government departments guarding a cave, while two figures approach from the rig

The State Cerberus, A Leaf Out of the Ænead, Freely Translated

John Doyle, December 11, 1834

Hand-colored caricature of a stout seated man at a dinner table raising a spoon, with a stew plate and roast bird before him.

H(C)annibalism or an Irish Stew

John Doyle, August 5, 1833

Engraving of a fallen youth beneath a tree, a draped woman reaching out, a boar and cupids in a hilly landscape.

Death of Adonis

Hand-colored satirical print of a kneeling man being invested with a cabbage-decorated honor, watched by a judge and uniforme

The Ceremony of Investiture of My Ld Sm**th with the Order of Cabbage-hood

J. Lewis Marks, ca. June 1819

Engraving of an ancient marble statue of the Muse Thalia holding a comic mask, draped in flowing robes on a pedestal.

Ancient Statue of the Muse Thalia

Claude Mellan, 1669

Engraving of a winged angel holding a drape overhead above a scrolled bracket, with a putto holding stems below.

Statue of an Angel

Hand-colored caricature of a black horse with a man's face in a white wig, saddled, with a satirical sale caption below.

To Be Sold With All His Engagements-The Famous Race Horse Woolsack

William Heath, June 29, 1829