Public domain art: satire

Artworks depicting satire, catalogued by the museums that hold them. Each one is free to download, with its colour palette extracted from the image and its maximum print size measured at 300 DPI.

Works in Public domain art: satire

Wit's Last Stake, or the Cobbling Voters and Abject Canvassers

Thomas Rowlandson

The Two Patriotic Duchesses on Their Canvass

Thomas Rowlandson

Kings Place, or a View of M [Fox's] Best Friends

Thomas Rowlandson

The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes

Thomas Rowlandson

A Touch on the Times

Thomas Rowlandson

Smithfield Sharpers, or the Countryman Defrauded

Thomas Rowlandson

Exhibition "Stare" Case

Thomas Rowlandson

Congressional Pugilists

Anonymous, American, 18th century

Little Mac, in His Great Two Horse Act, in the Presendential Canvass of 1864

Justin H. Howard

Heads of the Democracy

Currier & Ives

Little Mac Trying to Dig His Way to the White House, But is Frightened by Spiritual Manifestations

Anonymous, American, 19th century

Copperheads Worshiping Their Idol

Anonymous, American, 19th century

The Chicago Platform, What is It, Peace or War

Anonymous, American, 19th century

The War Candidate on a Peace Platform

Anonymous, American, 19th century

The Present State of Great Britain

James Phillips

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

David Claypoole Johnston

A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston

Pendleton's Lithography

A New Method of Maracrony Making as Practised at Boston in North America

Carington Bowles I

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

R. Sayer and J. Bennett

A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina

Philip Dawe

The Bostonians in Distress

Philip Dawe

The Alternative of Williams-Burg

Philip Dawe

Goody Bull or the Second Part of the Repeal

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Paul Sandwich [pseudonym]

The American Rattle Snake

William Richardson

Proclamation of Peace

William Wells

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp

Carington Bowles I

A Little Game of Bagatelle, Between Old Abe the Rail Splitter & Little Mac the Gunboat General

John L. Magee

Chicago Nominee: "I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest...Where be your gibes now?–Hamlet, Act IV [sic], Scene 1"

Justin H. Howard

The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or Old Time with his Magick Lanthern

William Humphrey

Orage causé par l'Impôt sur le Thé en Amérique

Anonymous, French, early 19th century

Het Tegenwoordig Veward Europa [Europe in Her Present Disordered State]

Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

The Commissioners

Matthew Darly

The Ballance [sic] of Power

R. S.

Va de Bon Coeur; Dédié aux Milords de l'Amirauté Anglaise par un Membre de Congrès Américain

Richard Purcell

State of the English Nation

W. M. Jackson

Mal Lui Veut Mal Lui Tourne Dit Le Bonne Homme Richard

Anonymous, French, 18th century

State of the English Nation [Toestand der Engelsche Natie]

Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

A Picturesque View of the State of the Nation for February 1778

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Amusement for John Bull & His Cousin Paddy, or, the Gambols of the American Buffalo, in St. James's Street

John Fielding

The American Rifle Men

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Junto in a Bowl Dish

William Richardson

Count de Rochambeau, French General of the Land Forces in America Reviewing the French Troops

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

La Grand Bretagne Mutilé; Das Verstümelte Britanien [Great Britain Mulitated]

Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

The Reply: A Complimentory [sic] Hieroglyphic Epistle from the Honorable Henry Laurens to Lord George Gordon

Henry Laurens

The Reconciliation Between Britannia and Her Daughter America

Thomas Colley

The Royal Hunt, or a Prospect of the Year 1782: The Temple of Fame, formerly the Wonder of the World, but now in Ruins

R. Owen

Yorktown

Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Whitehall Pump

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Colossus of the North; or the Striding Boreas

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Le Général Burgoyne à Saratoga, le 17 Octobre, 1777; and Le Général Cornwallis à Yorck, le 19 Octobre, 1781

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Common-Wealth, The Colossus

Thomas Ewart

Bunkers Hill, or the Blessed Effects of Family Quarrels

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Political Cartoon, for the Year 1775

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Council of Rulers & the Elders Against the Tribe of ye Americanites

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Statue, or the Adoration of the Wise Men of the West

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame Stamp

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Parricide, a Sketch of Modern Patriotism

Anonymous, British, 18th century