Several Princeton collections have strong holdings in comic art, cartoons, and pictorial satire. The Graphic Arts Collection has several thousand caricatures in the form of prints or drawings, mainly in the Dickson Q. Brown '95 Collection of Thomas Rowlandson and the Richard W. Meirs '88 Collection of George Cruikshank.

The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,

James Gillray (1756–1815) was a British artist known for his caricatures and satirical prints.