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

The Affectionate Farewell, or Kick for Kick

Thomas Rowlandson

A Delicate Finish to a French Usurper

Thomas Rowlandson

Coming in at the Death of the Corsican Fox, Scene the Last

Thomas Rowlandson

Head Runner or Runaways from the Leipzic Fair

Thomas Rowlandson

The Tyrant of the Continent is Fallen, Europe is Free, England Rejoices

Thomas Rowlandson

The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris

Napoléon Bonaparte

A Rare Acquisition to the Royal Menagerie

Napoléon Bonaparte

Hell Hounds Rallying Round the Idol of France

Napoléon Bonaparte

A Little Bigger

Thomas Rowlandson

The Supplemental Magazine

S. W. Fores

The Bum Shop

S. W. Fores

Slugs in a Saw-Pit

Thomas Rowlandson

A Great Man on His Hobby Horse

Thomas Rowlandson

Les Musards de la Rue du Coq à Paris (Dawdlers of the Rue Coq)

Thomas Rowlandson

Box Lobby Loungers

Henry Wigstead

Comedy Spectators, Tragedy Spectators

Thomas Rowlandson

A Brace of Public Guardians

Thomas Rowlandson

Why Don't You Take It?

Currier & Ives

A French Ordinary

Thomas Rowlandson

Beef à la Mode

Thomas Rowlandson

Preparing for a Duel

Thomas Rowlandson

The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor

George Cruikshank

The Pope's Advance Guard or the "Incroyable" in Rome (Avant garde du pape, ou l'Incroyable à Rome)

Anonymous, French, 18th century

The Frogs Who Wanted a King

Anonymous, British, 18th century

The Bombardment of All the Thrones of Europe and the Fall of the Tyrants for the Happiness of the Universe (Bombardement de Tous les Trônes de l'Europe et la Chûte des Tyrans pour la Bonheur de l'Univers)

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Le Général la fayette soutenu sur les batons des marechaux Lukner et Rochambeau prend la Lune avec les dents

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Grand Course au Clocher Académique, No. 5

J. J. Grandville

Grand Course-au-Clocher Académique, Planche 1: Perruques Académiques

J. J. Grandville

Grand Course au Clocher Académique, Pl. 2

J. J. Grandville

Les allies s'apprètent à pousser les opérations du siège avec plus de vigueur que jamais…, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, February 26, 1855

Aaron Martinet

The Ninth of Thermidor, or the English Surprise, to Honest People of All Countries (Le Neuf Thermidor ou la surprise angloise, aux honnêtes gens to tous le pays)

Jean-Baptiste Louvion

Lequel Faut-il Donner?

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Un Coup de Vent non Prédit par Mathieu (de la Drôme), Plate 1 of Croquis d'Hiver, published in le Petit Journal pour rire

Honoré Daumier

Le Journal Pour Rire, Journal d'Iimages, Journal Comique, Critique, Satirique et Moqueur, August 23, 1850

Charles Philipon

From Top to Bottom, or Cause and Effect (Du haut en bas...ou les causes et les effets)

Elie

Desire (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Admiration (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Veneration (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Rapture (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

Rudolph Ackermann, London

Laughter (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

Thomas Rowlandson

Sadness (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Sadness

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Weeping (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Horror

Thomas Rowlandson

Terrour or Fright

Thomas Rowlandson

Anger

Thomas Rowlandson

Ancient Military Dandies of 1450 – Modern Military Dandies of 1819

George Cruikshank

The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", Probable Results of The Industry of All Nations in The Year '51, Showing What is to be Exhibited, Who is To Exhibit, in Short How Its All Going to Be Done

George Augustus Sala

The Political Clyster

William Hogarth

Frontispiece to Nicholas Amhurst's "Terrae-Filius"

Nicholas Amhurst

Hudibras and the Lawyer (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 12)

Philip Overton

French Liberty – British Slavery

James Gillray

The Wedding Night

Isaac Cruikshank

A Sepulchral Enquiry into English History

George Cruikshank

Cestina Warehouse or Belly Piece Shop

Isaac Cruikshank

Concerto Coalitionale

Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle

A Paradice [sic] for Fools–A Nocturnal Trip–or–The Disciple of Johanna benighted–vided Scourge No. XXXVI, page 510

Charles Williams

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5

William Hogarth

Masked Man using a Lantern to Collect Discarded Pamphlets by a Tombstone, from "Le Charivari"

Benard

Hé c'est l'ami Carême!, Musée Grotesque No. 53

Aaron Martinet