April fool posters & prints

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

April Fool's Day Anonymous

Haemanthus coccineus, Hémanthe écarlate; Blood Lily, Paint Brush; April Fool Pierre Joseph Redouté

The April Fool, or The Follies of a Night... Anonymous

April 26 1859 in Florence, 1861 Odoardo Borrani

Two Fools, c.1600 Netherlandish School

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

The Festival of Fools, after 1570 Pieter van der Heyden

Of pluralitees that is to say of them whiche charge them selfe with many benefycis (after) German School

Laughing Fool, ca. 1612 Werner Jacobsz. van den Valckert

Two Jesters, 1550-75 Flemish School

April Anonymous

A Masked Joker, 1668 Caspar Netscher

Fool's Errand! Anonymous

Of carde players and dysers (after) German School

Of them that make noyses rehersynges of talys and do other thynges vnlaufull and dishonest in ye chirche of God (after) German School

Wielding fool Frederik de Wit

Of disordred loue and veneryous (after) German School

Drinking fool Frederik de Wit

Frontispiece to the English translation of Sebastian Brandt's 'The Ship of Fools', edition published in 1874 (after) German School

Jester with fool's cap on the head Jacob de Gheyn II

April Anonymous

The Cure of Folly, c.1494 Hieronymus Bosch

Of hym that wyll nat folowe nor ensue good counsell, and necessary from an edition published in 1874

Of newe fassions and disgised Garmentes (after) German School

Fool with a Girl Looking Through Her Fingers Werner Jacobsz. van den Valckert

The Fool and a Demon Master of Jean de Mandeville

Of mockers, and scorners, and false accusers (after) German School

April Morning Louise Abbema

The Older One Becomes, The Madder One Becomes, So Says the Old Man Master of the Prodigal Son

Of foles abhomynable in fowle wordes of rybawdry (after) German School

The Fool Silvia Pastore

Dancing fool Frederik de Wit

Of folysshe Fesycyans and unlerned that onely folowe paractyke knowynge nought of the speculacyon of theyr faculte (after) German School

Blessed Nicholas, the Fool for Christ of Pskov and Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible, 1899 Anonymous

Natural Fools (The Triumphal Procession of the Emperor Maximilian I), ca 1515 Hans Burgkmair the Elder