Caricature Collection

Sadness, January 21, 1800. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Sadness, January 21, 1800

Gin Lane (Beer Street and Gin Lane 2), 1751. Artist: Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
Gin Lane (Beer Street and Gin Lane 2), 1751. From a private collection

Dropping the Pilot, 1890. Artist: John Tenniel
Dropping the Pilot, 1890. Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prussian/German statesman, resigned as Chancellor, together with his son the German foreign minister

Yorkshire Cricket, 1892. Artist: Spy
Yorkshire Cricket, 1892. A portrait of Lord Hawke. Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (1860-1938) captained the Yorkshire County Cricket Club for 28 seasons

The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Holmes questioning a suspect. Artist: Sidney E Paget
The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Holmes questioning a suspect. Encounter between Silas Brown, the trainer who was hiding the lost racehorse Silver Blaze, and Holmes

A Radical Lawyer, 1902. Artist: Spy
A Radical Lawyer, 1902. John Lawson Walton KC MP, British barrister and politician. Walton served as Attorney General from 1905-1908. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, 6th March 1902

Political Ravishment, or the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger!, 1797. Artist: Gillray, James (1757-1815)
Political Ravishment, or the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger!, 1797. From a private collection

Integrity retiring from Office!, 1801
Integrity retiring from Office!, Pub. 1801 (hand coloured engraving). William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) resigns as Prime Minister in protest at Kings rejection of the bills to unite England

Mr Tennyson, Reading In Memoriam to his Sovereign, 1904. Artist: Max Beerbohm
Mr Tennyson, Reading In Memoriam to his Sovereign, 1904. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904)

Dickens Centenary Stamp, 1912. Artist: Stephen Reid
Dickens Centenary Stamp, 1912. The Charles Dickens (1812-1870) centenary was celebrated in 1912, a committee was established to collect funds for the benefit of the descendants of the great writer

Skinning the Lamb, c1910. An American cartoon depicting three African American men playing cards. Two of the men are skinning or fleecing the third. The barman looks on with a knowing smile

The Rhodes Colossus, 1892 Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
The Rhodes Colossus, 1892. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902), English-born South African businessman and statesman, shown striding across Africa from Cape Town to Cairo with a telegraph wire

The Logger, 1912. Artist: Kazimir Malevich
The Logger, 1912. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich. Russian painter, born near Kiev, trained at Kiev School of Art and Moscow Academy of Fine Arts in 1913 began creating abstract geometric patterns in

Dante in Oxford; Proctor: Your Name And College?, 1904. Artist: Max Beerbohm
Dante in Oxford; Proctor: Your Name And College?, 1904. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904)

Count Otto von Bismarck, Prusso-German statesman, 1870. Otto Edward Leopold, Count von Bismarck (1815-1898) was Chancellor of Prussia and architect of modern Germany

A Bull in a China Shop, 1808
A Bull in a China Shop, pub. 1808 (hand colured engraving)

Uncorking Old Sherry, 1805
Uncorking Old Sherry, pub. 1805 (hand coloured engraving). William Pitt (1759-1806) giving a speech on 6th March 1805

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talking, 1904. Artist: Max Beerbohm
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talking, 1904. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904)

La Commune arretee par l Ignorance et le Reaction, 1871. Satirical cartoon depicting an allegorical figure representing the Paris Commune arrested by Ignorance and Reaction. From a private collection

The Beatles. Creator: Dan Springer
The Beatles

Luciano Pavarotti. Creator: Dan Springer
Luciano Pavarotti

Sick Carnot! (Carnot malade!), 1893. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sick Carnot! (Carnot malade!), 1893

Dropsy Courting Consumption, October 25, 1810. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Dropsy Courting Consumption, October 25, 1810

The Corsican Spider in His Web!, July 12, 1808. July 12, 1808
The Corsican Spider in His Web!, July 12, 1808

Lloyds Coffee House, London, 1798, (1947). Creator: William Holland
Lloyds Coffee House, London, 1798, (1947). Interior of the Lloyds Coffee House in Lombard Street in the City of London. Lloyds became a meeting place for merchants and shipowners

Street Walkers, 1786. Artist: Benjamin Smith
Street Walkers, 1786. A fashionably dressed man walking from Old Bond Street into Piccadilly encountering a courtesan

A man outside Brookss Club, London, 1815. Artist: George Cruikshank
A man outside Brookss Club, London, 1815. Behold at Brookss step-nay! I ll be bound to say a figure such as this you ll see there every day

Miseries of London, 1812. A woman walking down Wapping Old Stairs being assailed by a group of watermen plying for trade. Two figures watch from a balcony

The Modern Job! Or John Bull and his Comforts!, 1816
The Modern Job! Or John Bull and his Comforts!, Pub. 1816 (hand coloured engraving)

Horace, Lord Farquhar, British financier and politician, 1898. Artist: Spy
Horace, Lord Farquhar, British financier and politician, 1898. Farquhar (1844-1923) served as Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1911-1923. A print from Vanity Fair, June 2nd 1898

Plausible, 1902. Artist: Spy
Plausible, 1902. Mr Justice Swinfen Eady, British lawyer and judge. Eady (1851-1919) became a QC in 1893 and a High Court Judge in 1901. He served as Master of the Rolls from 1918-1919

Prince Albert the British Farmer, 1843. Cartoon of Prince Albert (1819-1861) as a farmer. Prince Albert has turned his attention to the promotion of agriculture; and if you have seen

John Stuart Mill, British social reformer and philosopher, 1873. Artist: Spy
John Stuart Mill, British social reformer and philosopher, 1873. An advocate of utilitarianism, Mill (1806-1873) was probably the most influential liberal thinker of the 19th century

Ridiculous Dream, 1819-1823. Artist: Francisco Goya
Ridiculous Dream, 1819-1823. Plate 3 of Proverbs, published in 1864. The series is also known as disparates (absurdities) or suenos (dreams)

Putting wire wrapping around the suspension cables, Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, 1883
Putting wire wrapping around the suspension cables, Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York. Each cable was made up of more than 5, 000 separate strands

Two Jubilees - a Harmony in Black and White, 1888. The Pope paid a visit to Queen Victoria at the beginning of 1888. Dressed in white, he was in contrast to Her Majesty who

What do you think of the expedition? from Metamorphoses of the Day, 1829

Le Traitede Paix avec Rome (The Peace Treaty with Rome), ca. 1789. Creator: Unknown
Le Traite de Paix avec Rome (The Peace Treaty with Rome), ca. 1789

The Duenna & Little Isaac, April 1, 1784. Creator: William Paulet Carey
The Duenna & Little Isaac, April 1, 1784

The Triumphal entrance of a Peck loaf into Grandchester, c1787. Creator: Unknown
The Triumphal entrance of a Peck loaf into Grandchester, c1787. Mr. Peck, his Man, Pony, and Dog. Mr. Peck, and his servant (clinging onto Pecks coat), returning to Grantchester from a shopping trip

Deficiency. - Surplus. 1836. Creator: John Doyle
Deficiency. - Surplus. 1836. Satirical caricature of British politicians Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon (1790-1866), Chancellor of the Exchequer, and James Pattison (1786-1849)

Brixton purgatory, 1822. Prisoners Theodore Hook, William Cobbett, Henry Hunt and Thomas Wooler on the treadmill at Brixton Prison

A common council beast, returning from a turtle feast, c1775. A drunken common councilman is escorted home by two watchmen

A Wellington Boot- or the Head of the Armye, 19th century. A satirical political cartoon of the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1827

Ridiculous taste or the ladies absurdity, 1771. Private Collection

The Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room, 1818. Artist: Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)
The Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room, 1818. Found in the collection of British Museum

The operatic war in New York. Illustration from Puck. Private Collection

Field of Battle (in a fog) near Barnet, . Artist: John Leech
Field of Battle (in a fog) near Barnet, c1860, (c1860). The Battle of Barnet was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses

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