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Rodion Romanovich
06-23-2007, 09:10
A thread for historical caricatures!

Post a picture, and a description of what it illustrates.

http://www.historyguide.org/images/ancien_regime.jpg
I start with a classic: A caricature from the early phases of the French revolution, showing the nobility and clergy being carried by the poor...

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gillray/images/plumpud.jpg
...and I continue with "The plumb-pudding in danger", showing William Pitt the younger and Napoleon each trying to get the largest slice of the plum pudding earth

Marshal Murat
06-23-2007, 18:32
Actually it should be the
1st & 2nd Estates, the Nobility and Clergy.

Rodion Romanovich
06-23-2007, 21:03
Thanks for pointing that out! :2thumbsup: