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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,935 works

Engraving of a dying Magdalen supported by two winged angels before a rocky cliff and cave with trees.

Dying Magdalen Sustained by Angels

Claude Mellan, 1627

Hand-colored caricature of card players at a candlelit whist table, with a standing gentleman and a fireplace in the backgrou

A Real Rubber! At Whist

George Hunt, ca. 1825

Caricature print of a crowded gallery interior with exaggerated male figures around a draped table and framed pictures on the

The Matthew-orama for 1827-or Cockney Gleanings,-Aint that a good un now?

Thomas Howell Jones, March 26, 1827

Engraving of a kneeling saint praying as an angel points to a Latin banner in the clouds above a dying man in bed.

St. Nicolas Praying for a Dying Man

Engraving of a kneeling friar before the Virgin seated on clouds holding the Christ Child, with angels and rays of light abov

St. Francis of Assisi Adoring the Christ Child on the Virgin's Lap

Engraved crowd at a theatre pit door, with grimacing men and women, a playbill on the wall, and fallen hats on the floor.

The Pit Door / La Porte du Parterre

Robert Dighton, November 9, 1784

Etching of two women in tall plumed headdresses and fashionable gowns in a ballroom, with a chandelier and figures behind the

Characters in High Life

James Gillray, June 20, 1795

Hand-colored print of a woman in a green gown riding a shell boat pulled by three swans, with two cupids on a swan at left.

Venus a la Coquelle: or the Swan-sea Venus

James Gillray, March 28, 1809

Hand-colored caricature of officials feasting on gold coins at a table, with a treasury chest and petitioners at a window.

Substitutes for Bread;-or-Right Honorables, Saving the Loaves, & Dividing the Fishes

James Gillray, December 24, 1795

Hand-colored caricature of a wigged man in blue coat eating a frugal meal at a table beside a woman with salad.

Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal

James Gillray, July 28, 1792

Hand-colored caricature of two elongated gentlemen in top hats facing each other beside blacking bottles, brushes and books.

A Pair of Polished Gentlemen

James Gillray, March 10, 1801

Oriental Head

Charles Heath, ca. 1803

Engraving of a bearded saint in a robe being carried forward by two angels, one winged, in an arched hall with monks.

Saint Peter Nolasque

Claude Mellan, 1627

Engraving of Isabella pleading before a seated Angelo on a throne, with attendants and draped curtains behind, from Measure f

Isabella and Angelo (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 2)

James Fittler, 1794

Engraving of The Death of Arthur: a plumed knight with a dagger, a kneeling woman, a torch bearer and armored guards in a vau

The Death of Arthur

James Fittler, 1793

Pen and brown wash drawing of a hunchbacked painter in a tall hat holding a brush at an easel in a studio.

Il Gobbo dei Carracci

Arthur Pond, 1736

Etched portrait of a standing man in a top hat, long overcoat and cape collar, holding a walking stick.

James McNeill Whistler

Carlo Pellegrini, 19th century

Satirical print of a crowned king fishing on a riverbank, catching a fish labeled Taxes, with a barrel of other revenue fish.

A King Fisher on the Banks of the Thames

Monogrammist JVS, 1827

Hand-coloured print of women in furs fleeing an icy skeletal frost figure while a man in a greatcoat watches beside bare tree

A Naked Truth, or Nipping Frost

Charles Williams, February 2, 1803

Hand-colored print of a man and woman yawning in a parlor, the man sprawled on a red chaise longue holding a pocket watch.

Ennui

Robert Seymour, November 20, 1829

Hand-colored caricature of a top-hatted man stumbling through heavy rain on a street, with a lantern and a dog nearby.

The Opera Over! Or "The Last Man"

T. Gillard, 1827

Hand-colored satirical print of a dancing John Bull surrounded by personified food and drink items celebrating peace.

John Bull and His Friends Commemorating the Peace

Piercy Roberts, ca. 1801

Hand-colored caricature of a romp in an interior: a man in blue, a woman in pale gown, an officer in red, and a lady in a plu

The Romp

R. Rushworth, January 3, 1786

Pen caricature of a stooped man in a long coat straining to carry a heavy box labeled Landed Interest on his shoulders.

The Atlas of the Landed Interest

James Sayers, February 18, 1784

Hand-colored print of a crowd gazing at caricature prints in a shop window labeled Humphrey, with a motto banner below.

Honi. Soi. Qui. Mal. Y. Pense: The Caricature Shop of G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London

Theodore Lane, August 12, 1821

Etching of fashionable macaroni men in tricorn hats gathered in a print shop lined with framed prints, 1772.

The Macaroni Print Shop

Edward Topham, July 14, 1772

Engraving of an older man in a tricorn hat gesturing at a younger man in an elaborate powdered wig, with trees behind.

Well-a-day, Is this my Son Tom

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, ca. 1773

A Jemmy

Thomas Rowlandson, December 1, 1790

Caricature of a dandy in a tricorn hat raising a monocle, wearing striped stockings and holding a cane, with a Proverbs verse

A Jessamy

Thomas Rowlandson, December 1, 1790

A Smart

Thomas Rowlandson, December 1, 1790