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

News from America, or the Patriots in the Dumps

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Uncle Sam's Annual Celebration, Fire-Works of the Period, from "The Judge"

Thomas B. Worth

All on Hobbies, Gee Up, Gee Ho!

Henry Clay

A Galvanized Corpse

Henry R. Robinson

Peace and Plenty or Good News for John Bull!!!

George Cruikshank

The Theatrical Atlas

George Cruikshank

Introduction of Citizen Volpone & His Suite, at Paris.–Vide, The Moniteur, & Cobbetts Letters

James Gillray

A Phantasmagoria; — Scene – Conjuring-Up an Armed-Skeleton

James Gillray

French Volunteers Marching to the Conquest of Great Britain

James Gillray

The Wounded Lion

James Gillray

Tiddy-Doll, the Great French-Gingerbread-Baker; Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings, His Man Hopping Talley, Mixing Up the Dough

James Gillray

The Bottomless-Pitt

James Gillray

British Tars Towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour; the Broad-Bottom Leviathan trying Billy's Old Boat, and the Little Corsican tottering on the Clouds of Ambition

James Gillray

Delicious Dreams! –Castles in the Air! –Glorious Prospects!

James Gillray

Despair

James Gillray

L'Enfant Trouvé:–a Sample of Roman Charity!–or–the Misfortune of Not Being Born with Marks of "the Talents"

James Gillray

The Esplanade

James Gillray

"The Friend of the People" & his Petty New Tax Gatherer, Paying John Bull a Visit

James Gillray

"Improvement in Weights and Measures"; or, Sir John Seeclear Discovering Ye Ballance of Ye British Flag

James Gillray

The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag

James Gillray

The Magnanimous Minister, Chastising Prussian Perfidy.–vide–Morning Chronicle April 28th

James Gillray

Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro

James Gillray

"More Pigs Than Teats",–or–the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death

James Gillray

The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition

James Gillray

Pillars of the Constitution

James Gillray

A Plumper for Paul!–or–the Little Taylor Done Over; vide–the terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery

James Gillray

Political-Candour;– i.e.–Coalition-Resolutions of June 14th, 1805.–Pro bono Publico–

James Gillray

The Reception of the Diplomatique and his Suite at the Court of Pekin

James Gillray

Spanish-Patriots Attacking the French-Banditti– Loyal Britons Lending a Lift

James Gillray

The State Waggoner and John Bull.–or–the Waggon too Much for the Donkeys!

James Gillray

Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants!

James Gillray

The Zenith of French Glory; - the Pinnacle of Liberty

James Gillray

A Kick at the Broad-Bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill

James Gillray

Lordly Elevation

James Gillray

"Two Pair of Portraits" presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain" by John Horne Tooke

James Gillray

An Old Maid on a Journey

James Gillray

Farmer Giles and His Wife Showing Off Their Daughter Betty to Their Neighbours on her Return from School

James Gillray

Out of Fits, or the Recovery to the Satisfaction of All Parties

S. W. Fores

Top and Tail

Mr. Perwig

Bergami Pears–or–Choice Fruit !!

Anonymous, British, 19th century

Opera Reminiscences, Plate 2: Hat Boxes

William Heath ('Paul Pry')

Dandies in Rotten Row

William Heath ('Paul Pry')

The Farm Yard

Henry Kingsbury

The Muff

Henry Kingsbury

Le Goût du Jour ou Des Chinois du Boulevard Coblentz, from "Caricatures Parisiennes"

Aaron Martinet

The Ass at School

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 1: Crowding to the Pit

Theodore Lane

Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 5: Feasting in the Saloon

Theodore Lane

Concerto Spirituale

James Bretherton

Pizzaro a New Play or the Drury-Lane Masquerade

S. W. Fores

A Wooden Substitute, or Any Port in a Storm

Theodore Lane

Miss Prattle Consulting Doctor Double Fee about her Pantheon Head Dress

Carington Bowles I

Frontispiece to the 2nd Edition of Lord St[anhop]e's Observations on Mr. Pitt's Plan of Finance

James Sayers

Cicero in Catilinam

James Sayers

Napoleon Dance in Holland

William Holland

A Neck of Lamb, a Round of Beef, and a Scrag of Mutton

Charles Williams

Razor's Levée, or Ye Heads of a New Wig Ad[ministration] on a Broad Bottom

James Sayers

A Hail Storm

Henry William Bunbury

H(C)annibalism or an Irish Stew

Alfred Ducôte

The Ceremony of Investiture of My L**d S**m**th with the Order of Cabbage-hood

T. F. Flook