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Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon

Selected images from the collection


"Pretty Polly say when I was away did your fancy never stray to some new lover?" G. M. (George Moutard) Woodward (ca. 1760-1809), artist. Drawing (brown ink with watercolor on wove paper), created between 1790 and 1809. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-90979 (b&w film copy neg.); LC-USZC2-737 (color film copy slide)

[Pretty Polly say when I was away did your fancy never stray to some new lover? (A man in uniform stands resting one hand on his hip and extending the other out to a woman standing with her eyes closed and arms folded.)]
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Disasters of the chase. For'ard! There! Found! (illustration of man crawling through what appears to be a muddy path in front of his horse, while fellow riders call out from the distance]
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"Disasters of the chase. For'ard! There! Found!" Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), artist. Drawing (black crayon, pencil, and watercolor on illustration board), created between 1834 and 1882. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-94780 (b&w film copy neg.)

"Dreams of a rarebit fiend. 'Why, dearie! They look like horns to me! Huh!'" Winsor McCay, artist. Drawing (India ink over pencil, with scraping out on bristol board), created between 1904 and 1913. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-88348 (b&w film copy neg.); LC-USZC4-986 (color film copy transparency)

[Dreams of a rarebit fiend. (Nine-frame comic strip)]
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[Bust-length drawing of Eliza Doolittle from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion]
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"Liza" (bust-length drawing of Eliza Doolittle from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion). George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933), artist. Drawing (charcoal and orange chalk on wove paper), 1908. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-92621 (b&w film copy neg.); LC-USZC4-1407 (color film copy transparency)

Woman in dressing room. Published in: Puck, January 2, 1915 (published caption reads: "The Chassis. 1915 Model Body Built to Order.") Ralph Barton (1891-1931), artist. Drawing (India ink on off-white laid paper). Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-85967 (b&w film copy neg.); LC-USZ62-94770 (b&w film copy neg.)

[Woman in dressing room]
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[Girl with kite and dog]
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Girl with kite and dog. Ethel M'Clellan Plummer (1888-1936), artist. Drawing (India ink, gouache, and watercolor over pencil on off-white heavy drawing stock), published as cover of Vanity Fair, May 1917. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-89024 (b&w film copy neg.)

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