Jokester posters & prints

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

Carnival in Rome (Detail), c. 1650 Johannes Lingelbach

Jesters playing Cochonnet, 1868 Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala

The Mocking of Human Follies Frans Verbeeck

Masked Ball Anonymous

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

In skomorokh dress, 1882 Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov

Masked Ball Charles Hermans

Arriving at the Theatre on a Night of a Masked Ball Eugenio Lucas Villaamil

Jean-Gaspard Deburau as Pierrot, 1845 Auguste Bouquet

Laughing Jester School Netherlandish

Masquerade, 1913-1914 Boris Dmitryevich Grigoriev

Minstrels and Jugglers at Court, 1882 Anonymous

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Harlequins, 1913 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Harlequin and Death, 1918 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

A Masked Joker, 1668 Caspar Netscher

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Leaving the Masqued Ball José García y Ramos

La Maison Du Rire Poster Caro

Jester Anonymous

Illustration for War of Petrushka and Stepka-Rastrepka by Evgeni Schwartz, 1925 Alexei Alexandrovich Radakov

Leaving the Masqued Ball Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

A jester with a cat Jacob Jordaens

Harlequin and Death, 1907 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Pierrot Content, ca 1712 Jean Antoine Watteau

Harlequin hits a jester Pieter Schenk II

The Jester George Henry Hall

The skomorokhs. Costume design for the opera Prince Igor by A. Borodin, 1914 Nicholas Roerich

Rendezvous, c. 1918 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Court Jester Anonymous

Jester with wine cask Anonymous

The Outline of Sanity Satirical Cartoon of G.K. Chesterton Anonymous

A Good Joke Louis Charles Moeller

Killing Joke poster Rokpool