Caricature Collection (#100)

Cartoon illustration of an A-10 Thunderbolt II
Cartoon illustration of a Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II

World War II propaganda poster of a bucket spilling over Emperor Hirohito
Vintage World War II propaganda poster featuring a bucket dumping liquid over Emperor Hirohito. It reads, Pour It On, Dec. 7th Bond Purchases

Vintage poster of Uncle Sam holding a rifle and holding out a liberty bond
Vintage World War I propaganda poster of Uncle Sam holding a rifle and holding out a liberty bond. It reads: If You Canat Enlist, Invest! Buy A Liberty Bond

LINCOLN CARTOON, 1865. The Peace Commission - Flying to Abrahams Bosom. President Abraham Lincoln greeting members of the Confederate peace commission, February 1865

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, 1880. Farmer Garfield Cutting a Swath to the White House. James Garfield as the 1880 Republican Party candidate for President on a lithograph poster by Currier & Ives, 1880

PUCK: CARTOON, 1906. Declaring a dividend. John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Henry H. Rogers, Henry M. Flagler, Nelson W

PUCK: CARTOON, 1905. Mr. Orpheus of Boston. Thomas W. Lawson, as Orpheus, playing a lyre, and William A. Rockefeller, James R. Keene, J. Edward Addicks, and Henry Huttleston Rogers as wild animals

RED SCARE CARTOON, 1919. Moving Days. American cartoon published during the Red Scare of 1919, suggesting that the newly-established American Legion would help keep U.S

ANTI-CATHOLIC CARTOON, 1889. An American cartoon by Louis Dalrymple expressing the belief that Roman Catholic parents must choose between sending their children to parochial schools or

CARTOON: FRENCH FASHION. Late 18th century French caricature of the eccentric headgear popular in womens fashion. Engraving

NYC: POLICE, 1859. The New York Metropolitan Police - A pictorial analysis of the report to the legislature. Engraving, 1859

ANTI-SUFFRAGE POSTER, 1915. Which do you prefer? The home or the street corner for woman? Vote No on Woman Suffrage, October 19th. Lithograph by Tom Fleming, 1915

AD: WHITE RUSSIAN SOAP. Advertisement for James S. Kirk and Companys White Russian soap, parodying the famous Pears soap ad. Illustration by Harry Furniss, c1890

Caricature of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
Superb caricature of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) by an unknown German artist. Date: circa late 1930s

A Sydney Larrikin. Larrikinism is the name given to the Australian folk tradition of irreverence, mockery of authority and disregard for rigid norms of propriety

WWI - Propaganda postcard - Kaisers dream bubbles burst
WWI - Propaganda postcard - The German Kaisers dream bubbles are popping before his eyes. By this point however (late 1914)

WWII - Mussolini slips up invading Greece - First Day Cover. A nice pun on Greece and Grease. Date: 1941

Benoit Mandelbrot, caricature C013 / 7590
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010). Caricature of the French-American mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot is best known as the father of fractal geometry, a branch of complex number theory

Christiaan Huygens, caricature
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1693). Caricature of the Dutch physicist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Huygens is best known as the inventor of the pendulum clock

Gottfried Leibniz, caricature
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716). Caricature of the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leibniz is best known for developing the infinitesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton

Nikola Tesla, caricature C015 / 6713
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). Caricature of the Serb-US physicist and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. Tesla was educated at Graz and Prague, but in 1884 he emigrated to the USA

Lord Kelvin, caricature C015 / 6712
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907). Caricature of the British physicist and mathematician William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. Kelvin was co-discoverer in 1852 of the Joule-Thomson effect

Ernst Kummer, caricature C015 / 6704
Ernst Kummer (1810-1893). Caricature of the German mathematician Ernst Eduard Kummer. Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics

Fred Hoyle, caricature C015 / 6705
Fred Hoyle (1915-2001). Caricature of the British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. Hoyle is most famous for his adoption of the steady-state theory of the universe

Edmond Halley, caricature C015 / 6703
Edmond Halley (1656-1742). Caricature of the British astronomer Sir Edmond Halley. Halley is famous for deducing that the comets seen in 1456, 1531, 1607 and 1682 were the same object

Dentistry caricature, 18th century
Dentistry caricature. 18th-century artwork of a dentist (left) holding a string attached to a patients tooth, while brandishing a hot coal held in a pair of tongs

Cuba. Spanish colonization (1869-1870). Political

(1844-1930). English clergyman and educator. Caricature, 1898, by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward)
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SPOONER (1844-1930). English clergyman and educator. Caricature, 1898, by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward)

(1806-1873). English philosopher and economist. English caricature lithograph, 1873, by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward)
JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873). English philosopher and economist. English caricature lithograph, 1873, by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward)

President Chester A. Arthur suffers from dealing with the feuding factions of the Republican party. Cartoon, c1884
CHESTER A. ARTHUR CARTOON. President Chester A. Arthur suffers from dealing with the feuding factions of the Republican party. Cartoon, c1884

The Republican elephant and Democratic donkey react in alarm at the approach of the Progressive Bull Moose party
BULL MOOSE CAMPAIGN, 1912. The Republican elephant and Democratic donkey react in alarm at the approach of the Progressive Bull Moose party, wearing the spectacles of its presidential candidate

Mao Tse-Tung Cartoon, 1958
MAO TSE-TUNG CARTOON, 1958. Confuse us, he say... Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (left) and Western leaders (left-to-right) Dwight Eisenhower of the United States, Charles de Gaulle of France

NEWTON: CARTOON, 1763. Caricature satirizing Sir Isaac Newtons laws of gravity, showing nine men having their heads weighed at a weighing house

ANTI-CATHOLIC CARTOON, 1873. The Unseen Signal of the Jesuits. A priest hearing the confession of a government official secretly telegraphs the state secrets thus revealed to Rome

Satirical cartoon, The March of Intellect, showing a street scene with balloons in the sky above. 1828

Edward VII lampooned with a Chastity Belt
French postcard lampooning British Monarch King Edward VII, by picturing him in association with a Chastity Belt. Edward was known to have had a number of extra-marital affairs whilst Prince of

Art deco illustration by Fish, 1926 (caption / context: attached to his person by a strong gold chain / a fountain pen in gold, encrusted with rubies can be borrowed securely) Date: 1926

Royal Wedding 1947 - Prince Philip
Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (born 1921), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, caricatured by R.S. Sherriffs in The Sketch Royal Wedding Number, November 1947. 1947

Greek Anti-British Propaganda Postcard - this translates as: " Greek Soldiers - this is whom you are fighting!" The British forces are characterised as a fat John Bull

Richard Middleton / Vanity Fair / Spy
Caricature of Richard William Evelyn Middleton (1846-1905), Conservative Party Chief Agent 1885-1903. Date: 18th April 1901

Johannes Kepler, caricature
Johannes Kepler. Caricature of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), holding a model of a cube to represent his theories of the planetary orbits

Ernest Rutherford, caricature
Ernest Rutherford. Caricature of the New Zealand nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) with an electron orbiting his head

Caricature of the death of dinosaurs by meteorite
Dinosaur extinction. Caricature of the death of the dinosaurs by the impact of a comet or meteor- ite. A Tyrannosaurus rex, a fearsome predator of the time

Konrad Lorenz, caricature
Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989). Caricature of the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz being followed by a duckling. Lorenz studied medicine in Vienna before changing to zoology

John Scott Haldane, caricature
John Scott Haldane (1860- 1936). Caricature of the British physiologist John Scott Haldane. Haldane sought to apply the results of his research to the solution of industrial problems

Physician, satirical artwork
Physician. Historical satirical artwork of a physician. French text labels are on remedies emerging from the physicians mouth, and treatments on the table at lower left

Sheep shearing, satirical artwork. The title for this work refers to rich and poor and the shearing of sheep, saying that the sheep will be sheared according to its wool

Flea infestation, satirical artwork
Flea infestation. 17th century artwork depicting a group of women suffering from an infestation of fleas (small black dots)

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"Caricature: A Timeless Art of Satire and Wit" From the biting political commentary of James Gillray's "The Cow-Pock" to the whimsical charm of Tony Wysard's Denham Studios restaurant, it has long been a powerful medium for expressing social critique and entertainment. In the early 19th century, Gillray's satirical etchings like "Duke Wellington / Paul Pry" and "Political Ravishment" fearlessly mocked prominent figures such as Edward Jenner, Duke Wellington, and even the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. These caricatures not only captured their subjects' physical features but also cleverly exaggerated their personalities and actions. Moving forward in time, Richard Feynman's C015/6715 caricature showcased his mischievous spirit alongside his scientific brilliance. Meanwhile, Mel's depiction of The Royal Aberdeen Golf Club transported us to a world where golfers were transformed into animated characters on the green. Caricatures have not been limited to historical or fictional figures alone; they have also celebrated contemporary icons like snooker player Alex Higgins or delved into enigmatic personalities such as Rasputin. Dmitri Mendeleev's caricature playfully portrayed his genius in formulating the periodic table while David Attenborough became an endearing figure through artistic exaggeration. Even philosophers like David Hume found themselves immortalized in this art form that captures both physical likeness and intellectual essence. Caricatures continue to entertain us today by offering unique perspectives on individuals who shape our world. Whether it is capturing moments from history or celebrating present-day luminaries like David Attenborough, caricature remains a vibrant art form that combines humor with incisive observation. It reminds us that laughter can be a powerful tool for reflection and understanding in an ever-changing society.