April fools' day posters & prints

April Fool's Day Anonymous

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

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

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

Two Fools, c.1600 Netherlandish School

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

The Festival of Fools, after 1570 Pieter van der Heyden

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

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

Fool's Errand! Anonymous

All Fools' Day, Mutual Congratulations, London Anonymous

April Anonymous

April Anonymous

Drinking fool Frederik de Wit

Wielding fool Frederik de Wit

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

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

April Morning Louise Abbema

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

The Fool Silvia Pastore

The Fool and a Demon Master of Jean de Mandeville

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

Stage of Fools 1 Silvia Pastore

Of disordred loue and veneryous (after) German School

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

Dancing fool Frederik de Wit

Stage of Fools 2 Silvia Pastore

Feast of Fools (1973) Anonymous

Illustration from the book Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494. Albrecht Dürer

Two fools with a fool's cap on the head Antoine Sallaert

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

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

Of folys that despyse God (after) German School

A Fool and a Woman, 1520 Lucas van Leyden

King Lear and the Fool William Holmes Sullivan

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