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Tie the old greed bag on

James Gillray, Monstrous craws, at a new coalition feast, 1787, Library of Congress #ArtHistorypun
A coloured caricature etching from 1787 of the King, Queen and Prince of Wales seated at a table outside of the treasury, voraciously spooning gold coins into their mouths. Charlotte is featured as a hag, the King as a peasant woman and the Prince wears a fool's cap. Caption reads: Tie the old greed bag on
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Run fowl of the claw

Carel Hardy, Still life with a turkey, a green cabbage and sausages on a tablecloth, between 1635 and 1656, Private collection  #ArtHistoryPun 🤢
17th century still life painting of a cabbage and a whole plucked turkey. The bird has its feet in the air and its head dangling off the table. Caption reads: Run fowl of the claw
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Arrest assured
Christian Ludwig Bokelmann, An Arrest, 1881, Private Collection #ArtHistoryPuns
A painting depicting a street scene from 1880s Germany. A police officer is at the door of a workers cottage to arrest one of the homes occupants. Outside, women, children and older men are gathered to witness the event. Many of the gathering are shocked and horrified by the event. Caption reads: Arrest assured
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Giving you a flee pass

Louis-Léopold Boilly, The Movings, 1822, Art Institute of Chicago #ArtHistoryPuns
A painting of a Paris street scene from the time just following the French Revolution. A family is shown moving, likely due to financial hardship, with all their possessions strapped to a horse-drawn cart. Caption reads: Giving you a flee pass
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The radical left

Edmund Leighton, My Next-Door Neighbour, 1894, Private collection #ArtHistoryPun
A painting from the very late 19th century of a woman gracefully walking down the steps outside her residence, with a man standing at the open door of the adjoining townhouse. She is fashionably dressed, is holding a small black black dog and looks very self-assured, looking out towards the viewer. The man's focus is completely on her, looking gobsmacked. He is much more formally dressed and is holding a scroll, but has stopped whatever he is doing to stare at her. Caption reads: The radical left
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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No faux king way

Albert Pieter Hahn, Hunger and Capitalism (cropped), 1907-1911, illustration for De Notenkraker magazine #ArtHistoryPuns
An illustration for a Dutch satirical magazine from the early 20th century. It shows two figures looking over a city. One is an emaciated grim reaper labelled as "Hunger" and the second, a heavy set man with a crown of coins that reads "Capitalism". Caption reads: No faux king way"
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Prevent truth decay

Jean Veber, The Tooth Puller, 1904, Bibliothèque nationale de France #ArtHistoryPuns
A lithograph of a man having his tooth painfully extracted. He is seated, clutching his knee and the chair, his face white. The dentist, all in red, looms over him, pulling his tooth out forcefully with long pliers. In the background are two other men who are slumped against the wall in agony having also undergone the experience. Caption reads: prevent truth decay
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The revolution solution

Artist unknown, Women's March on Versailles, 1789, Bibliothèque nationale de France #arthistorypuns
An illustration of the riots led by women in the lead up to the French Revolution. Caption reads: The Revolution Solution
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Time for some change

After G. Piattoli, A man picks up the money spilling from a rich gentleman's pockets, c. 1800, Wellcome Collection #arthistorypuns
Illustration of a wealthy man walking along, a trail of coins falling from his pockets. A man follows, picking up the money that is on the ground. Caption reads: Time for some change
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Do you poppy that

Mary Riter Hamilton, Trenches on the Somme, 1919, Library and Archives Canada #arthistorypuns
Painting of poppies growing in the trenches following the Battle of the Somme during WWI. Caption reads: Do you poppy that
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Big stick energy 

George Catlin, Chin-cha-pee, Fire Bug That Creeps, Wife of Pigeon's Egg Head, 1832, Smithsonian American Art Museum #arthistorypuns
Portrait of Chin-cha-pee, an Assiniboine woman from the Northern Great Plains of North America and the wife of Wi jun-jon. She is wearing an animal hide dress and is holding a tool said to be used for digging wild turnips. Her hair is braided and she is wearing beaded necklaces, earrings and face paint. Caption reads: Big stick energy
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Peace and desist

Artist Unknown, The Three Cherokees Came Over from the Head of the River Savanna to London, 1762, Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art #ArtHistoryPun
Illustration of the 1762 Cherokee delegation to the UK. They were described as, “The hair of their head is shaved, tho' many of the old people have it plucked out by the roots, except a patch on the hinder part of the head, about twice the bigness of a crown-piece, which is ornamented with beads, feathers, wampum, stained deer hair, and such like baubles. The ears are slit and stretched to an enormous size, putting the person who undergoes the operation to incredible pain...They that can afford it wear a collar of wampum, which are beads cut out of clam-shells, a silver breast-plate, and bracelets on their arms and wrists of the same metal, a bit of cloth over their private parts, a shirt of the English make, a sort of cloth-boots, and mockasons, which are shoes of a make peculiar to the Americans, ornamented with porcupine-quills; a large mantle or match-coat thrown over all complete their dress at home.” Caption reads: Peace and desist
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Get blown off horse

Possibly Cheyenne, Ledger Book Drawing Depicting the Indian Wars, ca. 1890, Brooklyn Museum #ArtHistoryPun
Drawing of an Army soldier being knocked off a horse by a First Nations warrior during the American Indian Wars. Caption reads: Get blown off horse
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Striking a prose

Maria Flaxman, Portrait of Eleanor Anne Porden, Lady Franklin, on a chaise longue, circa 1811, Krannert Art Museum
An 18th century portrait of the poet Eleanor Anne Porden when she was about 16. She is seated on a chaise longue, on the table is next to her are sheets of paper and she holds a quill. Caption reads: Striking a prose
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Write about everything

Anna Ancher, Ane Hedvig Brøndum at her table, 1910, Museum Kunst der Westküste #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists
Early 20th century painting of an old woman is seated at a plain, elegant table in a sun-bathed room. Leaning on her forearms and pinching her eyebrows into a deep frown, she writes meticulously in the notebook in front of her. Aside from the open inkwell and other writing utensils, we see a bible and a luxuriant bouquet of flowers on the mirror-smooth tabletop. Caption reads: Write about everything
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Creature of the fright

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Cat in the moonlight, c. 1900 #ArtHistoryPun #Halloween
A print or lithograph of a black cat perched on a branch of a large, leafless tree. The full moon shines in the sky beyond. Caption reads: Creature of the fright
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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For the bury last time

Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Elaine, 1870, Walker Art Gallery #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists
A Victorian era painting based on a poem by Tennyson. It depicts a servant rowing a young womans body to King Arthur’s palace at Camelot. Her skin is ghostly white, he long blonde hair is draped over her coffin. She clutches flowers in her hands and her body is draped in embroiderd gold fabric. The boatman holds an oar in on hand and his his head with the other in sadness. Caption reads: For the bury last time
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I’ve got serious skull

Madeleine Boullogne, Vanity, before 1710, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists
A Baroque era vanitas still life painting of a skull on the right hand side of a dressing table, turned to face the mirror. It is stacked on some books, and there are more books laid on a red velvet piece of material on the left side. Caption reads: I've got serious skull
October 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Going straight to spell

Angelo Caroselli, Scene of Sorcery, between 1620 and 1630, Private collection #ArtHistoryPun #PunkForADayDay #BePunkEveryday
A Baroque painting of a woman by the light of a waxing moon. Her hands in the air, horrified and beginning to scream at the sight of a burning skull and whatever this spell has drawn up in the darkness out of our view. Caption reads: Going straight to spell
October 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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In intensive scare

John Collier, Fire, c. 1900, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum #ArtHistoryPun
A painting from 1900 of a young woman who has been frightened awake. She is sitting upright in her bed, cowering away from whatever she sees through a doorway opposite. The room is bathed in an orange glow, which along with the painting title suggests that the house is on fire. Caption reads: In intensive scare.
October 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The powers that zombie

After Ebenezer Sibly, Edward Kelly, a Magician, in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person, after 1807, Wellcome Collection #ArtHistoryPun #zombie
A 19th century illustration of two men and a woman standing in the graveyard of a church at night. One man is holding a torch, the other holds a book and pointing stick and are standing in the centre of a sigil. The woman is wearing a ruffled cap and night gown, and liiks gaunt and somewhat skeletal. Caption reads: The powers that zombie
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Self confidence and social skulls

Artist Unknown, Vanité macabre, 1650, Calvet Museum #ArtHistoryPuns
A baroque era vanitas painting of a skeleton seated on the ground with a scythe. There are skulls and crossbones hanging on either side. Caption reads: Self-confidence and social skulls
October 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Witch and moan about everything

Jean-François Portaels, The Witch, between 1840 and 1895, Private Collection #ArtHistoryPuns
19th century painting of a witch and her black cat. She leans against a table, leaning forward on her clenched, fisted hands. Her long black hair is unkempt, her eyes wild and angry. She is focused on something to the right, away from the viewer. Caption reads: Witch and moan about everything.
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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As the story ghost

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Benkei Fighting the Ghost of Taira Tomomori (cropped), 1818, Museum of Fine Art Boston
A japanese woodblock print based on the play, Funa Benkei, where vengeful spirits attack a boat during a storm. A spectral figure emerges from tumultuous waves on the left side, it has a fierce expression and is clad in ornate armor. To the right, several warriors aboard a ship are adorned in traditional samurai armor, ready to battle. Caption reads: As the story ghost.
October 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Feed on their greed

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Boys Eating Grapes and Melon, 1650, Alte Pinakothek #ArtHistoryPun #EatTheRich
A Baroque style painting of two homeless boys eating fruit. They are both dressed in rags, are shoeless and have dirty feet and hands. The boys are seated, one on the ground and one on a low bench and are eating grapes and a honeydew melon greedily. Caption reads: Feed on their greed.
October 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM