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"Next came THE RADICALS," from The Loyal Man in the Moon, 1820.

"The Sphynx at the war office.  Soldier: 'That's a grand thing.'  Civilian: 'Yes—rather imposing; but what does it mean?'"  From Harper's Weekly, 1867.

From Kunst, Krieg und Krieger by Konrad Escher, 1917.

From Caricature; Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story, 1911.

Members of the Pleasure Club slide on a toboggan of self-will down the icy slope of dissipation toward the murky lake of misery.  From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

Here's the Clerical Magistrate from The Political House that Jack Built, 1819.

From Symbol and Satire in the French Revolution by Ernest Flagg Henderson, 1912.

This 1820 cartoon about liberty being shot down is rather deeper than its simplicity would suggest.  From The Man in the Moon, 1820.

From The Oxford Thackeray.

Here's the latest religious fashion from Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

Here's a pair of respectable witnesses from The Royal Letter-Bag, 1820.

From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

Substitutes for Christianity here include the spiritual drugs of aestheticism, idealism, ritualism, dilettantism, and intellectualism, as well as tinctures of Plato, Kipling, Tennyson, Emerson, Carlyle, Browning, and Shakespeare.  From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

Religion is here depicted as a cloak for greed, falsehood, and dishonesty.  From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

From Berlin Under the New Empire by Henry Vizetelly, 1879.