All fools' day posters & prints

All Fools' Day, Mutual Congratulations, London Anonymous

April Fool's Day Anonymous

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

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

Fool's Errand! Anonymous

Two Fools, c.1600 Netherlandish School

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

Wielding fool Frederik de Wit

Drinking fool Frederik de Wit

The Festival of Fools, after 1570 Pieter van der Heyden

Of carde players and dysers (after) German School

Title page of an edition of Ship of Fools, by Sebastian Brant, 1494. Albrecht Dürer

Two Jesters, 1550-75 Flemish School

Stage of Fools 1 Silvia Pastore

Of them that ar alway borowynge (after) German School

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

King Lear and the Fool William Holmes Sullivan

The Fool and a Demon Master of Jean de Mandeville

Of impacient folys that wyll nat abyde correccion (after) German School

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

Of the despysynge of mysfortune (after) German School

Of the great myght and power of folys (after) German School

The Wisdom of Fools, from Six Proverbs Jacques de Gheyn II

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

Of folysshe Fesycyans and unlerned that onely folowe paractyke knowynge nought of the speculacyon of theyr faculte (after) German School

The World, Cage of Fools, 16th century Unknown

Of them that correct other and yet them selfe do nought and synne worse than they whom they so correct (after) German School

The Cure of Folly, c.1494 Hieronymus Bosch

Of the over great and chargeable curyosyte of men (after) German School

Of folys that despyse God (after) German School

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

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

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

Of folys that stande so well in their owne conceyt that they thinke none so wyse, stronge, fayre, nor eloquent,... (after) German School

The Older One Becomes, The Madder One Becomes, So Says the Old Man Master of the Prodigal Son

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