New York: Life Publishing Company, 1899. Vol. XXXIV, No. 893. 4to., 16pp. Profusely illustrated. Minor soiling, some chips to edges. Front cover detached, back cover missing. Measures 11" x 8 3/4". This copy of Life magazine belongs to the first publication under that name, which was a weekly edition founded in 1883 as a light, general interest entertainment magazine. This issue, like the publication generally, is full of illustrations, jokes and social commentary. The cover features four roundels describing the..... More

New York: Life Publishing Company, 1899. Vol. XXXIII, No. 858. 4to., 17pp. Profusely illustrated. Minor soiling. Measures 11" x 8 3/4". This copy of Life magazine belongs to the first publication under that name, which was a weekly edition founded in 1883 as a light, general interest entertainment magazine. This issue, like the publication generally, is full of illustrations, jokes and social commentary. The cover features four roundels describing the magazine's content: society, literature, politics, and drama. It opens with..... More

London: T. Tegg, 1800. Etching with hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 13", sheet measures 10 3/4" x 15 3/4 This caricature depicts William Pitt the Younger with some accomplices (including Henry Dundas and William Grenville) exiting an arched doorway, presumed to be the Treasury, with moneybags. The thieves, which include Charles Fox, glance to their left, where the watchman is seen sleeping. Shows some light staining at margins, not affecting the image. Minor wrinkling to page. Chips to..... More

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1836. Lithograph with original hand coloring. 10 x 13 1/4 inches. Plate 22. Some scuffs, foxing and toning on margins but luminous coloring. The lion's share,...from the rare album of 100 caricatures called Caricaturana (Les Cent Robert-Macaire).This collaboration with Philipon takes aim at French society through satire behind the vehicle of invented swindler Robert Macaire. More

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1836. Lithograph with original hand coloring. 10 x 13 1/4 inches. Plate 23. Some scuffs, foxing and toning on left of image and margins but luminous coloring. Text below in French..."Example: Buy a new process, it doesn't matter which, or whether it's good or bad, buy it for 600F, 500F, 25F, for as little as possible. Create 500'000F worth of shares, as many as possible. Make out monster advertisements, monster posters, monster promises. Make the capital, pocket..... More

London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy. Etching and engraving. Sheet measures 12 3/16" x 8 3/8". Engraving after a painting by the same name, with notable changes, accompanied by a lengthy inscription written by Hogarth seeking to illustrate and explain the differences between characters, caricatures, and outre. Hogarth regarded himself as a character artist, and found critics' view of him as a caricaturist to be offensive. The original painting depicts four judges in session appearing disinterested and even asleep. In this..... More

London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822. Engraving. Image measures 16.5 x 21.5". Sheet measures 18 x 23.5". This print by William Hogarth represents a myriad of many Hogarthian characters which often straddle the line between humor and tragedy. In this scene, English troops are shown marching northward into Scotland to quell uprisings by the Jacobites, who were loyal supporters of the recently dethroned Stuart monarch James II. Here, despite their dangerous mission, the soldiers have become distracted by the bustling..... More

New York: Kepler and Schwarzmann, 1880. Original print. Offset color lithograph. Page measures 13 1/8" x 9 7/8" This powerful cartoon depicts the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt portrayed as Rizpah, the biblical figure and concubine of Saul, whose sons were killed as retribution for Saul's crimes against the Gibeonites. After being put to death and hung from a post, Rizpah spent several months protecting her sons' bodies from scavengers and birds of prey until they could be properly buried. The..... More

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1895. Double page offset color lithograph. Image measures 13 3/4" x 19 3/4" Satirical print showing Uncle Sam sleeping in an arm chair with various newspapers at his feet. Surrounding him are various scenes and a persuasive map representing jingo-ism, or hawkish foreign policy. These dream-like scenes include captions such as "Annexing all outlying countries" and "Sweeping his enemies from the seas". The print is in very condition. Minor wear along centerfold. Founded in 1871..... More

Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen, 1850. Six engravings. Image 6.5 x 8.5". Sheet measures 10.5 x 14.75". Determined to prove that eighteenth-century society could witness tragedy and moral catharsis in their own time and city, rather than only in paintings of Ancient Greece or the New Testament, William Hogarth created this modern moral series about a naïve young woman who is seduced into prostitution and suffers the terrible consequences for her transgressions. Throughout the series, Hogarth meant to highlight the many temptations..... More

London: T. Tegg, 1819. Etching with hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 13", sheet measures 10 3/4" x 15 3/4 This caricature depicts a Welsh clergyman sitting on an early bicycle, often referred to as a "Hobby horse", or just hobby. Officially patented under the name 'velocipede', this iteration of the bicycle was invented in Germany by Karl Drais in 1817, two years before this print was published. In this caricature, the parson's family, barefoot and in tattered clothes..... More