Satire of Charles X in his death bed, with the king lying in a canopied bed and reading a paper lettered: "Catholic Emancipation", a monk with crucifix sitting in front of the king, mice trapped behind the monk's chair, a bowl of "Holy Water hot", papers of: "Dear Charles" and "French Revolution Chax" on a table by the bed, Satan on the right flying away; after Isaac Robert Cruikshank. Wood-engraving

Dessin de André Gill, « Champfleury », L’Eclipse n° 10, 29/3/1868. Par Michela Lo Feudo Article publié dans Ridiculosa n°14, Caricature(s) et modernité(s), 2007, p. 57-70. Le premier projet monumental d’une Histoire de la caricature a été réalisé,...

Nothing was sacred for the 19th-century caricaturist, who was notorious for his mocking sketches of French high society – he even went to prison for six months for making fun of the king. Here’s a selection of his rabble-rousing drawings