akg-images | Caricature and Satire


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« Back		An exhibition exploring caricature and satire opens in September at New York's Metropolitan Museum. We celebrate this fascinating new exhibit with some of our own favourites in the akg-images archive. Click on any image to order a high-res scan!



1-B49-G1870-4 Daumier's 1870 caricature of Death thanking Bismarck for the rich harvest of bodies during the Franco-Prussian War akg-images		9EN-1816-0-0-C1 Henry Brougham, John Bull and the British Lion attaching the hydra of property tax, 1816 akg-images





1EN-27-G2009-1 Charles Darwin 1809-2009, a 2009 drawing by Rainer Ehrt akg-images / Rainer Ehrt		7-L3-Z26-03-08-19 A 1789 French cartoon showing nobility and clergy riding on the back of peasantry akg-images / Erich Lessing





1EN-112-G1791-1 Gillray's vision of Pitt the Younger as A Toadstool upon a Dunghill, 1791 akg-images		1EN-152-G1829 A caricature, possibly by George Cruickshank, about the relief bill for Catholic emancipation, 1829 akg-images





1EN-1440-P3-1821 Thomas Rowlandson's cover illustration for Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife, 1821 akg-images		1FK-10-G1845 A lithograph caricature of Balzac by Nadar, circa 1845 akg-images





1FK-113-G1849-B Honoré Daumier's caricature of Victor Hugo from Charivari, 20 July 1849 akg-images		1FK-160-G1805-D Gillray's caricature of Napoleon and Pitt the Younger carving up the world, 1805 akg-images





1IT-2584-G1644-1 Bernini's 1644 drawing of Virginio Orsini and a captain of the papal guard akg-images / Electa		2-F20-K2-2011-2 Rainer Ehrt's caricature of European finances in 2011, EuroRodeo akg-images / Rainer Ehrt





1-L55-G6-1 János Jankó depicts Franz Liszt in Borsszem Jankó, 6 April 1873 akg-images		2-M80-H1-1780-B A French etching, circa 1780, mocking the hairstyles of the late Rococo akg-images





1FK-160-G1813-15 The Parisian Nutcracker: Napoleon cracks his teeth on Leipzig after his defeat there, October 1813 akg-images		2-M127-Z1-1616-20 Jacques Callot's etching of a masked guitarist, 1616/22 akg-images / Erich Lessing





2-M180-K1-1500-B Leonardo da Vinci's head of an old man, circa 1490/99 akg-images / Electa		3EN-H1-Z5-40 William Hogarth, The Reward of Cruelty, 1751 akg-images





7IT-D1-89011524 Boilly, Theatre Box on a Free Performance day, 1830 akg-images / De Agostini Picture Library		5EN-L2-G2-1811-1 Thomas Rowlandson, Exhibition Stare Care (sic), the Royal Academy exhibition, 1811 akg-images



		Didn't find the image you wanted in this selection? There are plently more images in the akg-images archive. Search the database yourself or email through a request list, we're happy to help!

7IT-D1-VB004161 Leonardo Da Vinci, male grotesque from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana akg-images / De Agostini Picture Library