Satirical posters & prints

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

Cartoon of William McKinley Trying to Stop Yellow Journalism Anonymous

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

Synonymous Charles Samuel Keene

Mars and Venus, or Sir Cecil chastised Samuel Collings

The expense of lawyers Anonymous

Cartoon Mocking Grover Cleveland's Financial Policy Anonymous

Pot and Kettle Anonymous

Tight and Needy Anonymous

Benefits of a plentiful harvest C Williams

A forcible entrance into Leadenhall-Street; by Master Billy Declaratory upon a Dun'd-ass Anonymous

Scenes in the Liberal Union, No. 4 The Magistrate and the Refractory Casuals Tom Merry

Satirical poster on the League of Nations, 1920. Vladimir Mayakovsky

Fracas Royal Extraordinaire Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Satire Anonymous

Ha, Ha! You Must Learn to Love Me, 1873 Unknown

Ridiculous Taste, or The Ladies Absurdity, c.1776 Matthew or Matthias Darly

Utility Combined with Elegance Captain HR Howard

The Great Self-Taxed Joseph Swain

Water! Water! Everywhere; and not a Drop to Drink, 1849 Unknown

Extremes Must Meet; or, A Bit of Practical Science John Tenniel

Necessitas Non Habet Bye-Laws! Charles Samuel Keene

A Satire on the Altar-piece by Kent in St Clement Danes Church, Westminster William Hogarth

The Irish Horse; or Not Caught Yet Joseph Swain

Lampoon of the Tammany Society Anonymous

Tear'em At The Tuileries John Tenniel

Satirical Fantasies, caricature of Adolphe Thiers Andre Belloguet

Certain City macaronis drinking asses' milk Anonymous

Caricature of Sir John Key Anonymous

Alfred Refuses to Burn His Fingers Anonymous

Satirical cartoon depicting the key protagonists in a dance at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 French School

An Isthmian Game Joseph Swain

Proposed Regulations in Hygeiopolis RE Wallace

Caricature of Cambon calculating the ruin of the proprietors, the capitalists and the rentiers French School

A Satire on Physicians, c1708 Jean-Antoine Watteau

Palmerston selling off Anonymous