The Seven Stages of the Office Seeker (1852) by Edward Williams Clay.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3995a335-4eea-4a66-885b-a8789bd62dd2

#lebenstreppe #caricatures #aristotle #cartoons #stufenalter #allegory #shakespeare #art #publicdomain

better please

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Cornflower and corn poppy (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/22899e29-cdf1-4ce4-9cf0-a4261c7fd8d2

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #costumes #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #art #publicdomain

The Fin de Siècle Newspaper Proprietor (Detail) (1894) by Frederick Burr Opper, from Puck, v. 35, no. 887.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a9881579-ba4c-42e4-8a19-bc161056f0b8

#satire #caricatures #newspapers #propaganda #cartoons #journalism #politics #war #art #publicdomain

⚪ Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
at @publicdomainrev
Text by Mathilde Montpetit

#Monet #Caricatures #Illustration

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

felon

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Cover of *Illustrations of the New Philosophy* (ca. 1837–9) by C. P. Cranch, from Illustrations of the New Philosophy.

Source: Harvard University

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f5994076-133a-4172-8a50-2d2362517297

#philosophy #caricatures #nature #transcendentalism #humour #art #publicdomain

Crude Congestion

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