Cartoon Drawings: Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon

"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)

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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)

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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.)

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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.)