The dance of death / Gordon Ross.
Illustration shows, in a banner across the top, men and women dancing at a dance club or nightclub; the banner breaks at the center and the women fall into prostitution, separating the bottom of the cartoon int... More
High life at five in the morning, British Cartoon Print
Print shows an interior view of a room; a duke has arrived home drunk at 5 a.m. to find his bedchamber occupied by another man. Through the open curtains around the bed can be seen a bare-breasted duchess. On t... More
The prodigals nurse, or modern heir / M. Iackson, invt. ; Boitard scul...
Print shows an interior view of a room in which a dapperly dressed young man, "Booby Squander, Esq.", turns over the deed to the family estate, his inheritance, to a money lender, the usurer "Solomon Thrifty", ... More
A family losing their possessions after the husband turns to drink
Print shows debt collectors, on the left, removing the possessions of a destitute family; the wife/mother and the children are on the right with the husband/father who is sitting before the fireplace, drinking ... More
The rake's progress at university. No. 2. Ah me! That thou the freshma...
Illus. in: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn ..., 1851, v. 1, plate 546.
The rake's progress at the university. No. 5. Convened for wearing gai...
Illus. in: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn ..., 1851, v. 1, plate 549.
The rake's progress / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...
Illustration shows a group of men identified as "Land Grafter, Politician, Special Privilege, Timber Grafter, Mineral Grafter, Public Utilities, Corporation Lawyer, [and] Tariff Grafter" sitting around a table ... More
The railroad that leads from earth to hell / Andrew B. Graham, Lith. W...
Print shows a drunkard on the "railroad" to ruin which passes the "Devils Office" and the "Bar and Pool Room", a healthy "Tree of Live" over which hovers a "Guardian Angel", followed by a house "For Sale", then... More
The rake's progress at the university. No. 1. Ah me! What perils doth ...
Illus. in: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn ..., 1851, v. 1, plate 545.
The rake's progress at the university. No. 3. The master's wig the gui...
Illus. in: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn ..., 1851, v. 1, plate 547.
The decay of home-life among the "smart set" / Ehrhart.
Print shows a vignette cartoon about the aspirations for social life among the well-to-do; at center, "The Will-o'-the-Wisp of Social Aspirations" shows a crowd of rich people chasing after "Social Ambition", a... More
The rake's progress at the university. No. 4. Expulsion waits that son...
Illus. in: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn ..., 1851, v. 1, plate 548.
His father's money / CH [monogram]., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows a young rake beneath a cloud of past exploits, smoking, and spilling a glass of alcohol, in the presence of a young woman fashionably dressed in red. An overturned chair and empty champagne b... More
The railroad that leads from earth to hell / Andrew B. Graham, Lith. W...
Print shows a drunkard on the "railroad" to ruin which passes the "Devils Office" and the "Bar and Pool Room", a healthy "Tree of Live" over which hovers a "Guardian Angel", followed by a house "For Sale", then... More
A rake's progress. Book illustration from Library of Congress
The fourth plate from Hogarth's series, in which two baliffs have stopped the Rake's sedan chair in St. James's street but are foiled in their attempt to arrest him for debt by a woman he had seduced and abando... More