Historical Satire Illustrations

Vintage satirical illustrations depicting theatrical figures and colonial themes. The artworks have a humorous yet critical tone, using bold colors and exaggerated forms.

CHARLES B COCHRAN theatrical manager and impresario, seen here in evening dress towering above some representative figures from his recent productions. His book of memoirs, 'The Secrets of a Showman', have just come out. Date: 1872 - 1951

Satirical illustration from the L'Assiette au Beurre magazine; the Colonisons! Series. Coloniser making light of the death of colonised people; "Ah! It's you the coloniser! Well then...continue."

CHARLES B COCHRAN theatrical manager and impresario, seen here in evening dress towering above some representative figures from his recent productions. His book of memoirs, 'The Secrets of a Showman', have just come out. Date: 1872 - 1951

The Redhead Moon / First Year - N ° 7 / Sunday 21 January 1877 / Broom ... to laugh, by Gill.

What do you call the blacking that gives an everlasting shine Chorus of bootblacks: Jacquots! , Men, Boys, Shoes, Shoe polishes, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Celebrities // Prussia Campaign

Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot (Kaiser Wilhelm II, the ham actor), showing the German Kaiser in four different theatrical roles: ignoring treaties, being deceitful, involved in litigation, and as Tartuffe, with objects thrown at him from the audience. Date: 1915

Wearing the projects Güldenen chain , Ex-Mayor Julius Newald leads a man Mayor Eduard Uhl in a bear costume on a golden chain title page of Humorist Leaf , Unknown

The sensational comedy-drama taken from life, Kidnapped in New York by Howard Hall. | Library of Congress

Solfege bruyant et peu harmonieux. S. D. Sollers & Co.'s fine shoes. , Men, Shoes, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Parliamentary Carneval in Hungary, Kálmán Tisza dances with freedom and opens the parliamentary carnival humorous leaves , Unknown

Funny old Hamburg, illustration 1892, Elysium Theatre, Dannenberg and Swan Neck, costume, actors, stage, audience, access, people, Germany, Europe

Skaters on ice, caricature, Netherlands, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 308, January 20, 1849.

The infernal family / Chrislehurst / Street Refrains

The Redhead Moon / First Year - N ° 20 / Sunday April 22, 1877 / The Charbonniers Judic and Dupuis (theater of varieties), by Gill.

Scene from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolph Erich Raspe, c1850. Artist: Anon

Abraham Lincoln being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater, April 1865

Eclipse / seventh year / # 297 / Sunday, July 5, 1874 / Tabarin (French comedy), by Gill.

Drommelaar, Patricq Kroon, 1900 - 1940 drawing A man with a beard hits a drum marked A.T.A.G. Design for a political cartoon. Netherlands paper. ink pen / brush political caricatures and satires. drum (musical instrument)

Cartoon titled 'Conscience makes Cowards!'. Depicted is Mr Punch confronting a railway director about the increasing number of major railway accidents due to the administration being unable to keep up with the increasing volume of traffic. Illustrated by Joseph Swain (1820-1909) an English wood-engraver. Dated 19th century

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Charlot (Charlie Chaplin). The Kaiser, dressed as a clown, asks Charlot to crown him emperor of the world. (1 of 2) Date: 1917

Group of young girls dancing to the music of a street organ, London. The sign on the organ 'Fair-Priced Organ authorised to engage dancers on the society's terms' refers to a Organ-Dancer's Union, run by children in 1894. Date: 1894

The dance of death: the chamber war. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1816.

Cartoon - The Colonel and the Coster Rostap (1866-1949)

Emile Zola in Figaro

The Political St. Nicolaas, Johan Braakensiek, 1904 Amsterdam paper political caricatures and satires. festivities on St. Nicholas (Eve) (December 5)

Qui-vive. S. D. Sollers & Co.'s fine shoes. , Boys, Masks, Rifles, Daggers & swords, Shoes, 19th Century American Trade Cards

This 1891 colour lithograph by Hans Schließmann depicts a dancing couple at the Lumpenball, showcasing the lively and festive atmosphere of the Viennese carnival through Schließmann's distinctive artistic style.

Cartoon of a baby crying out 'I want my pa' as Grover Cleveland passes. During Cleveland's 1884 presidential campaign, his opponents discovered reports that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child ten years earlier. Front page of 'The Judge.'

This color print around 1900 titled 'The Phoies' by an anonymous artist depicts figures in theatrical or performative poses, emphasizing composition and color contrast.

This 1888 lithograph by Hans Schließmann depicts a lively scene from the Lumpenball, a popular Viennese carnival event. The image showcases Schließmann's characteristic satirical style, capturing the festive atmosphere with vibrant colours and dynamic compositions.

Saturday Night, Cartoon

Punch and Judy performance at the seaside Date: 1911

The hypnosis threatened, Johan Braakensiek, 1899 Amsterdam paper political caricatures and satires. historical persons. hypnosis and suggestion. personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.

Caldron of Spirits, Magic & Mesmer

American trade card for Tarrant's Aperient Seltzer, c1890.

Daniel O'Connell als clown, John Doyle, 1844 print Cartoon from 1844 with Daniel O'Connell as a clown between Pantalone and Harlequin. Published as no. 822 in the HB Sketches series. paper clown. types in 'commedia dell'arte': Harlequin. types in 'commedia dell'arte': Pantalone. political caricatures and satires

A prompter in a music hall enjoys watchig a woman can-can dancer, tells an unpopular man entertainer to get off the stage, and is finally arrested at the request of two dissatisfied men. Process print after Albert Guillaume.

The new gold pit in the theater a, Vienna, Tenor Filippo patiento as a gold mine in the theater at Vienna, besides the composer Julius Sulzer and the director Franchetti title page of Der Floh , Karl Klic -, caricaturist, Johann Tomassich, realization

A Bare Chance / Business is Dull But He Can't Kick, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco ca. 1891 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Jokes'" series (N118), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 cards ca. 1891 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco.. A Bare Chance / Business is Dull But He Can't Kick, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. ca. 1891. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)

News // All palaketers are they sold out of Paris! / 3.

'Folies De Carnaval', late 18th-early 19th century. Creator: Unknown.

The Redhead Moon / Third Year - N ° 115 / Sunday, February 16, 1879 / Spring Effect, by Gill.

Film plants Wiener Type, The Aa evening, - The red fahni, Newspaper seller, Rudolf Kristen -, artist

He Serves the Ball, from the Talk of the Diamond set (N135) issued by Duke Sons & Co., a branch of the American Tobacco Company 1888 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Talk of the Diamond" series (N135), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 cards in 1888 by W. Duke Sons & Co., a branch of the American Tobacco Company, to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco.. He Serves the Ball, from the Talk of the Diamond set (N135) issued by Duke Sons & Co., a branch of the American Tobacco Company. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.) ,

French satirical Illustration, showing Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and the ban on demonstrations. 1908

John Bull "licked again" by Uncle Sam. Date: 1895

Another vote for Cleveland - 1884 Magazine cover making fun of Presidential Candidate Grover Cleveland

He explains, Life Cartoons still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Cartoon - Modern Mikado. John Collins (1917-2007)

CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES: CITY OF LONDON. SCENE FROM THE PANTOMIME OF 'OLIVER CROMWELL: OR, HARLEQUIN CHARLEY OVER THE WATER, AND THE MAID OF PATTY'S MILL.' UK

Death at the Bar, Skeletons

Cartoon - Two's Company Rostap (1866-1949)

Old humorous postcard from 1900, caricature about retail and wholesale, profit margins and consumption, It shows a consumer with a crushed retailer by a wholesaler, Ayez pitié d'un pauvre consommateur surchargé par le détail écrasé par le gros.

'Joy for the Union', 1897. Creator: John Leech.

The Redhead Moon / Third Year - N ° 130 / Sunday June 1, 1879 / Parliamentary Assomer, by Gill.

'Tourists' - conductors. , Men, Theatrical productions, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Picture series Two anglers, which dolt, which fool, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

Charles L. Davis' celebrated Alvin Joslin Comedy Company. 180 laughs in 180 minutes. , Men, Animals, Musical instruments, Actors, Musical revues & comedies, 19th Century American Trade Cards

The Redhead Moon / Second Year - N ° 78 / Sunday 2 June 1878 / Victorian Victorieux, by Gill./gloria Victis (according to Mall), by Gill.

View box, 1839 print A man and a woman look through the window of a viewing box, the owner closes the curtain. paper letterpress printing peep-show. performance in the open air (pleasure fair)

New York Miniature Opera Company, "A British Sailor is a splendid fellow.". New York Miniature Opera Company, "A British Sailor is a splendid fellow."

Uncle Sam, representing the United States of America, balances precariously on a tightrope of neutrality in 1915 trying to maintain its isolation status during World War One. Date: 1915

French satirical illustration, 1909, showing, child physically punished in a correctional facility. (top left with beard) Georges Marie Rene Picot; French lawyer and historian.

In L'Assiette au Beurre satirical magazine; colour satirical drawing; a pharmacist declares that he has done well to set up his pharmacy in Lisieux.

A man adorning a feathered head-dress, holding a tooth and staff in the air and exclaming to an audience. Coloured wood engraving by Lefman after A. Gill, 1873.

New Year's Gifts; The Toyshop; Jackson; children; 1860, I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry couple of children assembled round that pretty German toy. A Christmas tree, by Dickens; Wooden horse; dolls; air balloon; donkey; doll's house; elephant; pig; locomotive; steam boat; miniatures; cricket bat; top hat; topper;

Our bachelors - lunatics, all of you! Crazy to get into Fairbank & Co.'s lard tank. In that our chief happiness consists. , Swine, Oils & fats, Corn, Animals in human situations, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Cartoon - Hallowe'en Times Rostap (1866-1949)

Eclipse / seventh year / N ° 307 / Sunday 13 September 1874 / The man who laughs, by Gill.

The Mad Opmetation by Brother De Waal Malefijt, Johan Braakensiek, 1909 Amsterdam paper political caricatures and satires. puppet and marionette show. historical persons

Sword fighting to music for prizes, 13th century. Performers with swords and shields in a show duel accompanied by bagpipe music. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

Characteristics of theater places Paradyz according to the drawing of Ksawery Pillati. Shame from the Wieniec 1872 (2) 971 magazine Unknown, Pillati, Ksawery (1843 1902)

A coloured poster advertising men's shaving blades, by the company J. M. A tramp seated on a rubbish dump looking at a broken mirror using the blade for a clean shave.

Cartoon showing the perceived problems of professionalism in football. In the main series of images, two football club directors haggle over the value of a player who performs a number of feats in front of them. The price wavers between 50 and 1000 pounds, before concluding on 75 with the comment 'Very well. If I don't like him I can always sell him'. In the image at bottom right, an auction takes place for a player, under a banner proclaiming: 'Weekly sales of the Finest footballers. Com

Cartoon depicting two young women roller skating. Dated 19th century

Clowns 1890 Posters

Marius Petipa (From: Russian Ballet in Caricatures) by Legat, Nikolai Gustavovich (1869-1937)/ Private Collection/ 1902-1905/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Caricature/ Music, Dance,Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Portrait

Series of pictures of children as artists in the circus, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from c. 1900, Liebig Collector's Picture

Celebrities // Failed to the king !!!

Cartoon - King of the Third Base Rostap (1866-1949)

Cover of A Witch Shall Be Born, one of Robert E. Howard's original sword and sorcery novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, a fictional character. It was written in just a few days in the spring of 1934 and first published in Weird Tales in December 1934, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of that time

A Good Game for two, Life Cartoons still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Stafford Braid.. Stafford Braid.

For Heavens Sake, Flagg Cartoons, Life Cartoons Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960. still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.. Illustrations. 1890 - 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Nursery rhymes, Older people , Women, Whipping, Abused children

The third man's stick out of the bag, soon makes the thief beg for mercy, digitally restored reproduction of a public domain collective picture from c. 1900, Liebig picture series fairy tale Tischlein deck dich, Esel streck dich, Knueppel aus dem Sack (1893)

The undressed journal of Arc Mr.Jean - every night at the concert of Ambassadors / Costumes of Mr Willette.

Ballet in the city theater , Ballet in the city theater , the actors Alexander Strakosch and Karl Bukovics from Die Bomb , László frecskay -, Caricaturist

French satirical Illustration, depicting a duel between the establishment and the working masses 1908

Poster of 'Le nain jaune', magic show. Theatre Robert-Houdin, Paris. 1890.

One-man orchestra. A street musician plays flute and has a construction that makes it possible to hit a string instrument on both a drum.

The swing

The grocers / 17

Cartoon - The Shell Game Rostap (1866-1949)

Coloured illustration of a large man watching his son play soldiers.

Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis (1873-1962). This illustration is from Gariss Uncle Wiggily and Alice in Wonderland and shows Uncle Wiggily and cannon. Uncle Wiggily stories first appeared in the 'News' in 1910, were syndicated in 1915, and continued to be published for more than forty years, at one time appearing in one hundred newspapers. Garis wrote 35 volumes of Uncle Wiggily stories under his own name, as well as numerous other children's books under several pseudonyms. William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather was also a painter, teacher, and writer, known for impressionist landscape, paintings and book illustrations.

Cover design, El Rey Que Rabio -- The King Who Went Mad, a comic zarzuela (Spanish operetta) with lyrics by Miguel Ramos Carrion and Vital Aza, and music by Ruperto Chapi. Published by Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo. Date: circa 1890s

A humorous illustration in the style of H. M. Bateman of a lady making a social faux pas whilst watching a game of tennis at Wimbledon. Date: 1928

Henri Gabriel Ibels, Le cafe concert Illustrated Cover, 1893 Le cafe concert: Illustrated Cover

Jupiter Pluvius Outdone, from the Snapshots from "Puck" series (N128) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco 1888 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Snapshots from 'Puck'" series (N125), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 cards in 1888 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco.. Jupiter Pluvius Outdone, from the Snapshots from "Puck" series (N128) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)

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