Ralph Steadman

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Born	May 15, 1936 (age 88) • England

Otto von Bismarck and William II

Sir John Tenniel

English artist

Harry Furniss: Getting Gladstone's Collar Up

Harry Furniss

Anglo-Irish caricaturist

Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).

Walter Crane

British illustrator and painter

George Cruikshank

British artist

Robinson, Boardman

Boardman Robinson

American caricaturist and painter

Norman Lindsay

Australian artist and author

Leech, John

John Leech

British caricaturist

Robinson, William Heath: The Home-Made Car and How to Make It

William Heath Robinson

British cartoonist

Doyle, Richard: The Fairy Queen's Messenger

Richard Doyle

British artist

E. H. Shepard

English artist

William Blake

William Blake

British writer and artist

David Hockney

David Hockney

British artist

A Footnote (self-portrait), ink on board by Aubrey Beardsley, 1896.

Aubrey Beardsley

English artist

Thomas Bewick: The Tawny Owl

Thomas Bewick

British artist

Hansel and Gretel

Arthur Rackham

British artist

William Mulready

British painter

du Maurier, George: Study at a Quiet French Watering-Place

George du Maurier

British author and caricaturist

Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.

Sir John Gilbert

British painter

Elizabeth Enright

American author

Ludwig Bemelmans

American author