Trickery posters & prints

The Trickery of the Gibeonites Joachim Beuckelaer

Trickery photo of eel pulling on the Lindegracht Amsterdam F. Bouman

Isaac Blessing Jacob, c.1638 Govaert Flinck

The Fortune Teller, c.1635 Georges de la Tour

Another Republican Trick, Us, America Anonymous

Illustration of the 'Groundworke of Conny-catching' , 1592 English School

Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as ‘The Dancing Lesson’, 1660-79 Jan Havicksz. Steen

A Masked Joker, 1668 Caspar Netscher

Metaphysics, 1760 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Grammar, 1760 Giovanni Battista (1696-1770) Tiepolo

Renaud in the arms of Armide, 1730-39 Jean-Baptiste van Loo

Isaac Blessing Jacob, c.1660-70 Abraham van Dyck

The Derby Day, Scenes by the Roadside and on the Downs: The Three-Card Trick. UK Anonymous

Lindor's letter Alfred Leon Lemercier

Jupiter disguised as Diana tries to seduce Callisto, c.1753 Jean-Honore Fragonard

A Bachelor's Drawer, 1890–94 John Haberle

Judith and Holofernes, c.1554 Giorgio Vasari

The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, detail depicting the two women, c.1635-40 Georges de la Tour

Charlatans in the Piazzetta San Marco, Venice Gabriele Bella

Leda and the Swan Bartolomeo Ammanati

Virtue and Abundance, 1760 Giovanni Battista (1696-1770) Tiepolo

Leda and the Swan Anonymous

Trompe l'oeil of a cabinet door Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts

Tom Sawyer whitewashing fence Anonymous

Leporello serenading Elvira in the guise of Don Giovanni who stands behind him, Act II scene I Austrian School

The fox and the crow Anonymous

The Fox and the Stork, 1747 Jean-Baptiste Oudry

The Fox and the Crane from Aesop's Fables Frans Snyders

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Thirty-fifth night: The magician, disguised…, c. 1560 Unknown