Public ridicule posters & prints

Man tied up on donkey Cornelis de Wael

Man tied up on a donkey Cornelis de Wael

Hudibras in Tribulatio William Hogarth

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

The Mocking of the Prisoners, ca. 1540 Giorgio Ghisi

Monstrosities of 1821 George Cruikshank

Jesus Before Herod James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Breathing Spaces for London, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, Open to the Public on Sundays Anonymous

Ridiculous Taste, or The Ladies Absurdity, c.1776 Matthew or Matthias Darly

Yatsushi kokei sansho, Transformation of three ridiculous laughs Kubo Shunman

Ridiculous taste or the ladies absurdity, 1771 Anonymous

Monstrosity of 1829: 'Lo this is their very guise', 1829 William Heath (attributed to)

Cartoon Ridiculing Montgolfiere; Balloon Anonymous

Ridiculous taste or the ladies absurdity, 1771 Matthew Darly

The Next Novelty Anonymous

Phoebus Exposing Mars and Venus to the Ridicule of the Olympians, ca. 1615 Anonymous

Scene from Les Précieuses Ridicules Anonymous

Mr. Stacy Marks's a Select Committee is Unintentionally a Satire Upon the Proceedings of Many Public Bodies in which Cockatoos... Anonymous

Guard Parade, 1820s School Russian

Dressing of a Mannequin; La Toilette de Mannequin, 1835 Jean Alphonse Roehn

A labourer reads a book in a library Anonymous

Caricature Ridiculing Overcoloristic Orchestration Berlioz

Caution to Young Ladies who ride in Crinoline on Donkeys Anonymous

Daniel Defoe in the Pillory, Temple Bar, London JC Armytage

Trial of William Palmer, at the Central Criminal Court, May 1856, for Poisoning John Parsons Cook, at Rugeley English School

William Makepeace Thackeray Joseph Simpson

'The Flask' ale house, Highgate Village, London McLeish

The Hobby-Horse School English

Lenox, Massachusetts John Warner (after) Barber

Locomotion, London George Cruikshank

A Salvation Army shelter, Blackfriars Road, London Anonymous

A woman tram-conductor, Chile Brown & Dawson

Regent Street, London McLeish

Old house and a tavern surviving in Aldgate, London McLeish

St John's Gate on a Sunday, Clerkenwell, London McLeish

Scottish sheep by the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London Anonymous