EditorialAustrian soldiers surprise a French detachment in its quarters at Bavai, May 1792. Coloured engraving by Hieronymus Loeschenkohl, who illustrated, and sometimes caricatured, wars and political events between 1780 and 1807.
EditorialChristie's Auction Room, Augustus Charles Pugin, French, active Great Britain, ca. 17621832, Thomas Rowlandson, British, 17561827, John Bluck, British, 17911832, Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 17641834, Brush and wash, etching and aquatint on ...
EditorialSen. Bernie Sanders acknowledges a throng of excited supporters during a campaign appearance at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, Nov. 3, 2019. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times)
EditorialPsalm 43; Saracen and dragon. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 42. Psalm 43 beginning with decorated initial 'D'. Border decoration with a bird grotesque. In the lower margin, a Saracen with caricatur...
EditorialPsalm 48; Mocking of Christ. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 48. Border decoration with grotesque in the outer margin. In the lower margin, the Mocking of Christ. Christ seated, wearing a purple robe, as tw...
EditorialPsalm 48; Scourging of Christ. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 48. Border decoration. In the lower margin Christ, who is bleeding, has his arms bound by a cord round a marble column. Two men, with caricatur...
EditorialChrist carrying the Cross. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 48. Border decoration, including a grotesque in the outer margin with a hooded human head and fish body. In the lower margin, Christ carrying the C...
EditorialPsalm 43; Saracen and dragon. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 42. Psalm 43 beginning with decorated initial 'D'. Border decoration with a bird grotesque. In the lower margin, a Saracen with caricatur...
EditorialGroup of Caricatured Figures with an Artist Drawing, 1612?66, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, 7 11/16 x 10 3/8in. (19.6 x 26.4cm), Drawings, Circle of Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591?1666 Bologna).
EditorialJ. Pierpont Morgan, ca. 1906, Ink and gouache, sheet: 8 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (21.3 x 13.7 cm), Drawings, Joseph W. Simpson (British, Carlisle, Cumbria 1879?1939 London), Simpson moved to London from Glasgow to work as a poster designer and illustrator. He d...
EditorialThe political drama. No. 61. Old grill among the paddies, en sanguine engraving 1832?, William Cobbett riding on a large gridiron borne by a ragged troop of caricatured Irishmen in a procession following a man carrying a flag pole topped with a death's...
EditorialA peep at Christies or Tally ho, and his nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1796, Miss Farren and Lord Derby walk together inspecting pictures. She, very thin and tall, looks over his head through a glass a...
EditorialA peep at Christies or Tally ho, and his nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraving 1796, Miss Farren and Lord Derby walk together inspecting pictures. She, very thin and tall, looks over his head through a glass a...
EditorialThe political drama. No. 61. Old grill among the paddies, en sanguine engraving 1832?, William Cobbett riding on a large gridiron borne by a ragged troop of caricatured Irishmen in a procession following a man carrying a flag pole topped with a death's...
EditorialAustrian soldiers surprise a French detachment in its quarters at Bavai, May 1792. Coloured engraving by Hieronymus Loeschenkohl, who illustrated, and sometimes caricatured, wars and political events between 1780 and 1807.