April fool posters & prints

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

April Fool's Day Anonymous

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

Haemanthus coccineus, Hémanthe écarlate; Blood Lily, Paint Brush; April Fool Pierre Joseph Redouté

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

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

Two Fools, c.1600 Netherlandish School

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

Two Jesters, 1550-75 Flemish School

A Masked Joker, 1668 Caspar Netscher

The Festival of Fools, after 1570 Pieter van der Heyden

Of carde players and dysers (after) German School

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

Of them that make noyses rehersynges of talys and do other thynges vnlaufull and dishonest in ye chirche of God (after) German School

Drinking fool Frederik de Wit

Fool's Errand! Anonymous

Of disordred loue and veneryous (after) German School

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

The Cure of Folly, c.1494 Hieronymus Bosch

Wielding fool Frederik de Wit

Of newe fassions and disgised Garmentes (after) German School

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

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

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

The Fool and a Demon Master of Jean de Mandeville

Of hym that wyll nat folowe nor ensue good counsell, and necessary from an edition published in 1874

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

Fool with a Girl Looking Through Her Fingers Werner Jacobsz. van den Valckert

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

The Fool Silvia Pastore

Of folys that despyse God (after) German School

Of inprofytable and vayne prayers vowes and peticyons (after) German School

1971 Reliant Super Van III 'Only Fools and Horses' tv show Unknown

Venerable Michael the Fool-for-Christ of the Klops Monastery, 1885-1896 Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov

Stage of Fools 1 Silvia Pastore

Stage of Fools 2 Silvia Pastore