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/exhib...es/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
