Farce posters & prints

Commedia dell'Arte: Italian and French Comedians Playing in Farces Anonymous

Italian and French Comedians Playing in Farces, 1670 Verio

Design for the title page of the farce of The Deceived Bernard Picart

Scene in the Farce 'Lofty Prospects' as performed with great success for the Benefit and amusement of John Bull, 1825 George Cruikshank

Portrait of Georges Feydeau Charles Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran

Farce Actors Dancing Pieter Jansz. Quast

Scene from the New Farce of the Slow Man at the Adelphi Theatre London UK 1854 Anonymous

Europe in masquerade, or the Royal farce G Foster

Scene from the New Farce of the Two Bonnycastles, at the Haymarket Theatre, London Anonymous

Italian and French Comedians Playing in Farces, 1670 Verio

The Commedia dell'Arte Company French School

Comedians at the theatre of Hotel de Bourgogne Abraham Bosse

Europe in Masquerade, or the Royal Farce, by G. Foster, 1747 English School

Shakkyo no shinikyogen, Farce of the lions at stone bridge Kobayashi Kiyochika

A Performance of the Farce Playerwater at a Flemish Festival (Village Kermesse) Belgium Pieter Balten

Shakkyo No Shinikyogen, Farce of the Lions at Stone Bridge. 1904 Anonymous

Maitre Pathelin and Guillemette French School

Harlequin, Emperor on the Moon Claude Gillot/Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Satirical theatrical performance given by King Philip IV of Spain to his guest Charles I of England, 1623 Pieter van der Aa I

A Scapin or Comedy Scene, c.1863-1865 Honore Daumier

Queen Caroline and Mrs Wood Anonymous

Pathelin and the Draper and Pathelin before the Judge French School

Harlequin, Emperor on the Moon Claude Gillot/Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Scene from 'Le Misanthrope' by Moliere Pierre (after) Brissart

Scene from Moliere's 'The Would-be Gentleman', 1848 William Powell Frith

Mary Brough (1863-1834), English actress Anonymous

Theatre Bill advertising perfomances of Mr. Kean, 1818 English School

Sid James Ron Burton

Portrait of J. Heermans or Pieter Harman Country Fair

On them yt synne trustynge vpon the mercy of God (after) German School

London sportsmen, or the Cockney's journal of the first of September Anonymous

Thalia Hendrik Goltzius

Dickens in the character of Sir Charles Coldstream Augustus Leopold Egg