Literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody

concept

Caricature of Serge Samuel Voronoff (1866 - )

Coloured etching: 'The Cholic'; by Cruikshank

Hogarth, Marriage a la mode: suicide of the countess

Punch, 25 May 1861, 'The Lion of the Season'

Chanteclair, 1908

Engraving: scene from Sterne's Tristram

Punch, 18 May 1861, 'Monkeyana'

Punch, 30 November 1872, 'Piety and Parallel

Caricatural illustration of ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)

Satirical drawing: "fenian-pest". Punch, 1866

Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens, with additions, by Mr. Pilon, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes. To which is added, an essay on satire. With forty-seven heads by Nesbit, from designs by Thurston.

Medical satire ephemera. Box 1.

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Satire

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Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

Punch, 25 May 1861, 'The Lion of the Season'

A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens, with additions, by Mr. Pilon, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes. To which is added, an essay on satire. With forty-seven heads by Nesbit, from designs by Thurston.

Engraving: scene from Sterne's Tristram

Medical satire ephemera. Box 1.

Satire

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Images referencing Satire

Works from the collections

Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

Punch, 25 May 1861, 'The Lion of the Season'

A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens, with additions, by Mr. Pilon, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes. To which is added, an essay on satire. With forty-seven heads by Nesbit, from designs by Thurston.

Engraving: scene from Sterne's Tristram

Medical satire ephemera. Box 1.

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