In 1720, the collapse of the South Sea Company, which dealt in slave ships and trade with South America, spawned numerous political cartoons in the Netherlands and Britain. These are among the first recognizable political cartoons by today’s standards, characterized by symbolism, exaggerated characters, metaphor, and more.

Cartoons from the 1700s and 1800s often employ archaic language, elaborate dialogue, and obscure visual references. It takes a good deal of knowledge of the precise historical context to grasp such cartoons. In short, political cartoons employ complex visual strategies to make a point quickly in a confined space.

This assemblage of more than 800 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series, which consists of individually cataloged political cartoons and caricatures.

A political cartoon commentary on the disunity of the Thirteen Colonies during the French and Indian War, reused at the Albany Plan of Union, and later used to encourage the colonies to unite for independence during the American Revolutionary War.

Political or editorial cartooning is based on caricatures, a technique dating back to Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches. William Hogarth (1697-1764) has been attributed with the early development of political cartoons. In 1732, A Harlot’s Progress, one of …

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May 14, 2014 · This document display presents a sampling of political cartoons from HSP’s collections spanning from the 1700s to the early decades of the 20th century. These cartoons, and many more, will be part of HSP’s Historic Images, New Technologies (HINT) project.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with creating the first political cartoon printed in an American newspaper, the famous "Join or Die," published in the May 9, 1754 edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette.

Dec 10, 2024 · Cartoon Drawings Collection - From the Library of Congress, this collection "offers more than 9,000 original drawings, caricatures, and comic strips spanning the late 1700s to the present, primarily from 1880 to 1980.

The first great American political cartoon is also perhaps the best known: Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die." He published it, a wood engraving, in the May 9, 1754, issue of his Pennsylvania Gazette to rally the colonies to support the Crown's war …