Joseph Dinkel - Dinosauria Iguanodon
Public domain scan domain photograph of 19th-20th-century anatomical atlas, illustration, print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bust portrait of Queen Anne in state robes
Book decoration patterns, fonts etc. collection from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.
"Koo, Koo, Or Actor-Boy" (BM 2006,0929.48)
A crowd of black men and a white woman surrounding a man dressed in elaborate costume, in a street in Kingston, Jamaica. 1837-38 Hand-coloured lithograph
... Chinese Court of Justice ... 8th of March 1807 (BM 1858,1009.355)
Seamen of East India Company ship Neptune brought before Chinese court to answer charge of homicide. Lithograph
... Marketplace, Wisbech ... on the day of the coronation of Queen Vic...
Wisbech market-place decorated and furnished with tables accommodating 5000 diners, 2-tier central stand accommodating dignitaries below and band above; onlookers at windows , on balconies and at road-side; ho... More
Act IV. Scene 2d in King Richard III. Time,- 1828. No III. (BM 1868,06...
See No. 15942. Knox stands in the Museum of Comparative Anatomy (established at his suggestion, and of which he was Conservator), in conversation with Hare, a ragged young man. He holds a black mask before his ... More
Caerlaverock Castle (BM 1863,0214.1490)
Landscape with castle in centre fn lake, figures on bridge to entrance at left, cattle grazing in foreground with herders beside. 1852 Lithograph printed with beige tone block
Calais - Vue de l'Embarcadère (Chemin de fer) (BM 1935,0309.47)
185: View of boats on the river including a steam boat on the left; city on the background. Lithograph, hand-coloured
Charles Motte - Canton d'Unterwalden (BM 1958,0712.2181)
Standing man in traditional costume of Unterwalden, carrying a tub on his back and one under his left arm, standing in profile, showing his right side Lithograph with hand-colouring
Dem Verdienste seine Kronen (BM 2007,7087.70)
Three ladies present a seated general with a dunce's cap in his study. c.1848 Lithograph with hand-colouring
Haus an der Brück (House near a bridge) (BM 1920,0131.26)
View of a massive stone bridge with a house in the background to right. 1899 Lithograph; printed in colours
His Last Card (BM 1945,0109.27)
Gladstone as an elderly gambler held by by horrified attendants in the gaming room; a presentation cartoon from the 'St Stephens' Review', 27 March 1886 Colour lithograph
Mr Cullenford, as Ralph Nickleby (BM 1875,0710.7051)
Portrait of the actor, as Ralph Nickleby, in Dickens' 'Nicholas Nickleby'; whole length, standing, leaning to the right, looking to the left, his arms crossed at waist, holding top hat; fragment from a larger p... More
Popular print, album (BM 2003,1022,0.48 1)
Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed, numbered 48 and depicting a scene from the Ramayana. Rama is shown about to offer his eyes to make up the full number - 10... More
Print (BM 1929,0608.19) - Public domain portrait drawing
Portrait of a man with long hair; in profile to right. c.1900-30 Lithograph; printed in red
Print, newspaper-periodical (BM 1933,1014.644.17)
Portrait of Henry Irving, whole length, seated, his legs crossed, one arm resting on back of chair, holding cigar, his head turned to the left, blowing smoke; illustration to 'The Theatre'. 1881 Lithograph
Skiddaw, from St. John's vale (BM 1981,U.746)
View of a valley with a river to right, a fisherman standing at centre and a group of figures gathered around a fountain to left, the mountain Skiddaw in the background. Lithograph printed in colours ?
Summer (BM 2019,7015.625 1)
Three nude women, one wearing a sun hat and holding a basket, picking grapes; published as part of 'Portfolio No 2' (1894). 1892 Lithograph in green/black ink
The modern jerry sneak!!! Or the man who submits to petticoat governme...
William IV, dressed as "Jerry Sneak", the hen-pecked husband in Foote's "Mayor of Garratt" (1763), trudges (left to right) with bent back after his wife, who is indicated only by the train which he holds up. Un... More
Tomb of Mithridates, near the Lazaretto of Kertch (BM 1982,U.687)
Interior of an ancient sepulchre (kurgan) near Kerch, with at centre figures gathered around a hole in the floor; beyond, a triangular opening; after Bossoli. 1856 Lithograph printed in colour
V.r Considerant Né à Salins, Département du Jura, le 12 Octobre 1808. ...
Plate 6: portrait of Victor Considerant, half-length, directed to front, head slightly turned to right, with moustache and double-breasted coat . 1848 Lithograph with tint stone
Venditrice di polpi cotti (BM 1896,0511.173)
A woman full-length standing behind a table facing front, selling cooked octopus. Watercolour over lithograph
Hippolyte Bellange - Chasseur à pied (BM 1856,0308.117)
Numbered 7: A Chasseur in winter uniform, standing in profile, turned to the right, with a straight back, on a road; beyond at left, trees enclosed by a wooden fence. 1824 Hand-coloured lithograph
John Barton Esqr (BM 1860,1013.1)
Portrait of John Barton, half-length sitting behind desk, directed to the right, looking towards the viewer, holding newspaper with both hands, also spectacles in one of the hands, light through thin windows be... More
Print, playing-card (BM 1876,1014.1211-1288)
Complete tarot pack with 78 playing-cards with French suit-marks. The court cards are double-ended. The tarots illustrate some of Æsop's fables. The only card representative of the old emblematic tarots is the... More
Print, playing-card (BM 1982,U.4609.1-52 20)
Complete pack of 52 double-ended playing-cards bound, at the British Museum, into a book. Hand-coloured lithograph Backs dotted and starred in black 1800-1865
Calwich Abbey (BM 1852,1211.481)
View of a large country house in the right background, seen across a large river in the foreground where swans and ducks are swimming, and two cows standing by the shore in the left foreground, arched bridge in... More
"Aside he turn'd for envy, yet with jealous leer mailign, eyd them ask...
(For description see other impression). 12 December 1782 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Crumbs of comfort", or-old-orthodox, restoring consolation to his fal...
The Devil stands (centre), his widespread wings stretching across the design, between Fox (left) and Burke (right), who kneel at his feet facing each other in profile. He is tall, stout, plainly dressed in the ... More
(? A knowing one) (BM 1867,1012.626)
(For description see other impression). 1 August 1790 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(A beau) (BM 1867,1012.629) - Public domain portrait engraving
No title. Half length portrait of a man directed to the left and looking to the right with a smile, a single eye-glass held to his right eye. His hair is much frizzed out at the sides and tied in a queue. He we... More
(A country church.) (BM 1874,1010.20)
(For description see other impression). 31 March 1790 Etching and aquatint
(A French Postillion with a Whip in one hand, the other in Pocket, Bir...
Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip, with a horse behind to the right. c.1768 Etching and drypoint
(An agreeable character in a post-chaise) (BM 1927,0308.132)
Plate 36 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Design in a circle. A fat man, nearly half-length, directed to the r... More
(Association meeting at York) (BM 1868,0808.4671)
A representation, partly allegorical,of the meeting of the Association at York on 30 Dec. 1779 when the petition of the county was agreed to and a committee of sixty-one appointed. Men sit and stand in ranks on... More
(Bonnet-rouge) (BM K,67.238) - Drawing. Public domain image.
The cap alone, intended to be fitted to the heads described under BMSat 8450-7. Etching printed in red ink
(Boot i.e. Bute) (awl) a new (ball)ad. (BM 1868,0808.4130)
Rebus in mock-Scots repeating that in BM Satires 3741, satirising Lord Bute and the supposed promotion of Scots in England, specifically Robert Mylne's selection as architect of Blackfriars Bridge. 1760 Etching
(Caricature Portrait) (BM 1867,1012.630)
A man seated full face on an upright chair, left leg thrust forward, his arms folded, holding his hat. His head, turned in profile to the left, has a grotesque expression of rage. He is fashionably dressed. An ... More
(Chess-players.) (BM 1851,0901.385)
Title perhaps cut off. Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses w... More
(Col. Topham endeavouring with his squirt to extinguish the genius of ...
(For description see impression of first edition). Reissue of a 1785 print Etching with letterpress verses printed below the plate-mark
(Cream-woman of Trinity College Cambridge) (BM 1851,0308.181)
A stout and ugly woman walking (left to right) in profile carrying in her right hand a pot or pail. She wears a flat wide-brimmed hat over a hood, and an apron (torn). 1771 [written on print in old hand] Etching
(Fox against Fox!!!) (BM 1868,0808.5827)
No title. Frontispiece from 'Fox against Fox!!! or Political Blossoms of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox . . . To which are added the Speeches of Mr Pitt and Mr Fox ...' [10 Dec. 1788]. George III, wearing a ... More
(General Burgoyne) (BM 1867,0309.771)
(For description see other impression). 17 June 1782 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(General Oglethorpe) (BM J,2.64)
Profile head, caricatured, of Oglethorpe the philanthropist (1696-1785). He has an enormous nose and a projecting jaw, giving the appearance of extreme old age. He wears a short bushy wig. 13 July 1781 Hand-col... More
(Henry Flood.) (BM 1868,0808.5327)
A bust-portrait of Flood in profile to the left. Two other heads in profile to the left are below and behind him on the extreme right. As a background there is a series of four gibbets (right), a body hanging f... More
(Jedediah Buxton) (BM 1925,0511.161 1)
Whole-length portrait of Jedidiah Buxton, aged 63, in profile to right, standing holding a long stick with two prongs at the end. 1770 Etching
(Jedediah Buxton) (BM 1925,0511.161)
Whole-length portrait of Jedidiah Buxton, aged 63, in profile to right, standing holding a long stick with two prongs at the end. 1770 Etching
(John Nichols.) (BM 1868,0808.5987)
(For description see other impression). [1790] Etching Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(John Wilkes) (BM 1868,0808.12441)
Caricature bust portrait of Wilkes in profile to the left, the right eye just visible, showing his squint. 16 July 1781 Hand-coloured etching
(Lord Kelly.) (BM 1868,0711.617)
(For description see other impression). 1 June 1780 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Lord Kelly.) (BM 1868,0808.4691)
Portrait of Lord Kelly, similar to BMSat 5741 but reversed. 1 June 1780 Etching
(Matt Darly) (BM J,2.37) - Public domain portrait engraving
Matthew Darly the engraver and publisher of prints stands beside an ass. He faces three quarter to the right, his head in profile to the right. He is elderly and corpulent, his gouty right leg is swathed. H... More
(Mrs Weltje in her shop in Pall Mall) (BM J,2.27)
The interior of a shop showing the window (left) and a semicircular counter or bar behind which sits a buxom lady (right) in a chair, her head in profile to the left. On the narrow counter are pears, apples, an... More
(Oliver Goldsmith) (BM 1850,0810.182)
Caricature head and shoulders in profile looking right. c.1770-2 Etching
(Push-pin.) (BM 1863,0110.135) - Drawing. Public domain image.
(For description see other impression). A proof before all letters. 17 April 1797 Etching
(Sub-Porter and Lamp Lighter of Trinity College Cambridge) (BM 1851,03...
A man walking in profile to the right carrying a ladder resting horizontally on his left shoulder. In his right hand is an oil-can. 1771 Etching
(The Marquis of Graham and the Earl of Buchan) (BM 1935,0522.13.23)
Two officers in Highland dress stand back to back in profile; in the background and on a minute scale is sketched a body of Highland soldiers carrying muskets. One (right) looks up waving his sword; the other l... More
(The Miser's Economy) (BM 1948,0214.365)
Satire with a miser seated at table with bags of money and his breeches round his knees being reproved by another man wearing spectacles. 10 March 1794 Hand-coloured etching
(The Wager) No.1 1792 (BM 1937,1108.26)
A stout, well-dressed man walks in profile to the right, carrying on his back a diminutive man wearing spurs, whose feet are in straps which are part of a species of harness, worn over the shoulders. His head i... More
(Tomb of Sir George Savile.) (BM 1851,0901.226)
(For description see other impression). c. November 1799 Aquatint Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Tomb of Sir George Savile.) (BM 1868,0808.4647)
A sculptured monument to Sir George Savile against a stone wall. A life-like half length figure of Savile looking to the right is set in an alcove with inscriptions above and below. Above: 'The Guardian Genius ... More
(Unidentified portrait) (BM 1868,0808.12445)
Bust portrait, caricature, of a man in profile to the right. His nose projects sharply, almost at a right angle with his forehead. He is deep-chested, and wears a shirt-frill. 30 December 1781 Hand-coloured etching
(Vestris junior or Vestr' Allard) (BM J,2.17)
(For description see other impression). 15 August 1781 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(View of a skittle ground at Hampstead.) (BM 1927,1126.1.19.62)
Plate 4 to Woodward's 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Two oval designs on one pl. 'Compartment Ist' Four men gro... More
Caricature, -Benbridge (BM 1851,0308.114), public domain cartoon image
Plate 24: Caricature of Henry Bembridge, standing to right, his left hand resting on the back of a wooden chair. 1769 Etching printed in brown ink
... solation et consolation des foireux (BM 1998,0712.58)
Satire on Frederick William II, king of Prussia, soiling his pants, following the defeat of Brunswick and addressing the Austro-Hungarian emperor, Francis II. September 1792 Hand-coloured etching
24 Caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists, etc. (Vol.1) (BM...
Titleplate: with text on a cartouche on a fragment of a classical ruin. 1 November 1771 Etching and engraving with hand-colouring
A back view of the cape. (BM 1868,0808.6171)
(For description see other impression). 23 March 1792 Hand-coloured etching
A Back-side and Front view of a modern fine lady vide Bunbury or the S...
Four designs divided by intersecting lines, the copy described being cut vertically into two halves. In all a pretty and graceful young woman, nude, and with shortish wavy brown hair is bathing stylized waves... More
Egbert van Heemskerck II - A Barber's Shop (BM 1988,0514.32)
For description see BM Satire 1859; small reverse copy of engraving by Toms, with different verse Etching and engraving
A Bit of Blood (BM 1962,0828.3)
A man canters in profile to the left on a lean and broken-kneed horse whose hind-quarter is branded. He has only one rein attached to ill-fitting harness, and sits with his leg thrust forward and holds a club a... More
A brush for the sign-painters (BM 1868,0808.4162)
(For description see other impression). 1762 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Canterbury tale. (BM 1868,0808.5790)
The original title and imprint have been cut off and replaced by the above title in ink, on a strip of paper pasted to the print. Fox, Hanger, and the Prince of Wales stand in a boat against a high stone wall, ... More
A Caricatura (BM 1868,0808.9920)
Satire on the ejection of James Eyre as Recorder of the City of London after his refusal to attend Lord Mayor Beckford on the presentation of the City Remonstrance and Petition to George III in support of John ... More
A certain little fat Jew macaroni and his spouse going to ye Pantheon ...
A family group in the hall of a house. A stout short man walks in profile to the left. In his right. hand is a large cane, in his left. a laced hat. A maidservant lifts up his enormous club of hair while she br... More
A collection of hobgoblins (BM 1935,0522.8.67)
Ten little men with enormous and grotesque heads and burlesqued facial expressions. They are arranged in two rows. 25 February 1796 Hand-coloured etching
A cool pipe in Pall Mall! Symptoms of equality (BM 1851,0901.1025)
(For description see other impression). 1 April 1800 Hand-coloured etching
A Courier just Setting out (Who has any Letters to Send?) Sketch'd fro...
For description see other impression; this state has verses added within the image. Etching
A Dreamer (BM 1990,1109.26) - Drawing. Public domain image.
George III asleep in a chair, his foot gouty and a print screen behind, while his crown falls off into the hands of his son. c.1805 Hand-coloured etching
A Flat between Two Sharps (BM 2010,7081.1052)
Satire: a countryman scrtaches his head standing between a solicitor and a barrister in front of Westminster Hall; the solicitor, on the left, taps his nose and grins towards the viewer. 1791 Hand-coloured mez... More
A Fundamental Error in the Art of Skaiting 1803 (BM 1931,1114.104)
A man on skates falling on his back, his cane and hat flying away as he falls; other skaters on the background. 1803 Watercolour
A game at skittles! (BM 1868,0808.6865)
The Ministry are represented by nine skittles on a board (right), with heads, only those of Pitt, who is taller than the others, and Dundas being characterized. Fox stands in the foreground taking aim; he says:... More
A German howl or the emigrant princes bemoaning the loss of their dear...
Six Frenchmen, much caricatured, surround the coffin of 'Leopold II', which is raised on a support draped with black; enormous tears stream from their eyes, splash over the coffin, and form a pool of water whic... More
A Goose Between Two Foxes (BM 1985,0119.149)
Social satire; a goose-girl with a goose in a basket under one arm and a bonnet is flanked by two countrymen, one with his arms around her, the other carrying his shot-gun; behind a shot-gun rests against a tre... More
A Harlot's Progress (BM 1891,0713.517)
Unmounted fan-leaf, with three scenes from Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, omitting the scene with her lover, the death scene, and the final funeral scene. c.1732 Etching, printed in red on chicken skin
A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5 (BM 1858,0417.548 1)
A squalid room where Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies; her serving-woman calls for attention for the invalid, another wom... More
A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5 (BM 1858,0417.548 2)
A squalid room where Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies; her serving-woman calls for attention for the invalid, another wom... More
A hint to husbands, or the dresser, properly dressed (BM J,5.71)
A lady sits at her dressing-table, while a hair-dresser attends to her elaborate coiffure. She turns round in astonishment towards her husband (right), who has entered from an open door and threatens the hairdr... More
A Land Cruise on one of the Patent Hobby Horses exhibiting at the West...
Two sailors ride (right to left) a velocipede (see No. 13399) with two saddles on the elongated bar. At the back is a seat for two passengers in which are two gaily dressed women. The first sailor says over his... More
A late scene at Barnet (BM 1927,1126.1.29.7)
Social satire: a party in a bedroom where a half-naked lover jumps out of a window leaving his mistress in bed in a four-poster bed; a print from the 'London Magazine'. October 1771 Etching with engraving
A Lawyer and his Agent (BM 1935,0522.1.101)
Satire on the law: a lawyer sits in his study chatting in a familiar way with the Devil who puts his arm around his shoulder; the table is covered with briefs concerning cases of debt and Chancery matters; on t... More
A locust (BM 1868,0612.1249) - Drawing. Public domain image.
A grotesque locust with the head of Pitt, its four legs terminating in bird's claws, walks upon the large oval links of a chain fastened in a circle by a padlock (right). The head, much caricatured, has a large... More
A log-book candidate in full sail to defeat a Wray of honesty. (BM 186...
A naval officer in uniform stands on a large open book which serves as a boat; he holds a small mast to which three pages from the book are attached as sails. The book is inscribed "LOG BOOK", the sails (respec... More
A Long Minuet as Danced at Bath (BM 1868,0822.7136 3)
(For description see impression of first edition). A re-issue by Fores in 1794 of the plates first published on 25 June 1787 Stipple printed on four plates joined together
A Macaroni Print Shop (BM 1872,1012.4903)
Satire on macaroni prints: (No. 24) the window of the Darlys' at 39, The Strand shop, filled with macaroni and other prints; seven men stand in front, imcluding an elderly macaroni, at left, whjo appears shocke... More
A Macaroni Print Shop (BM Heal,Portraits.303)
Satire on macaroni prints: (No. 24) the window of the Darlys' at 39, The Strand shop, filled with macaroni and other prints; seven men stand in front, imcluding an elderly macaroni, at left, whjo appears shocke... More
A Macaroni returned from Riding (BM 1866,1208.871)
Satire on macaronies (No.21): a man in riding clothes with a whip under his right arm standing in profile to right taking a pinch of snuff from a box, with his hair in a long bag. 6 October 1772 Etching
A man millener. The muff. (BM 1868,0808.5619)
The two designs form a contrasted pair of figures. [1] A man of very feminine appearance walks left to right looking coquettishly to front carrying a circular band-box and a frilled hat, both extremely large. O... More
A man of importance (BM 1868,0808.12524)
Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to... More
A March to the Bank. (BM 1851,0901.367)
(For description see other impression). 22 August 1787 Etching. Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description