Classical satirist posters & prints

Portrait of Juvenal from 'The Satires of Juvenal and Aulius Flaccus', 1763 English School

Samuel Butler, 17th century English poet and satirist Anonymous

Portrait of Francois Rabelais, French satirist French School

Adriaan van Beverland, Writer of Theological Works and Satirist, with a Prostitute Ary de Vois

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Alexander Pope, English poet and satirist Anonymous

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian author, 19th century Unknown

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 18th century French writer and satirist J Pass

Samuel Butler Gerard Soest

Samuel Butler Gerard Soest

Portrait of George Byron English School

The Robbing Hood Debating Society Anonymous

Henry Mayhew English School

Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer Anonymous

Horatius Reading his Satires to Maecenas, 1863 Fedor Andreevich Bronnikov

Rabelais Anonymous

Sheet of Satirical Studies, c. 1650s Salvator Rosa

Portrait of Charles Churchill: English poet and satirist, 1763-1764 J.S.C. Schaak

Portrait of Russian politician, poet and satirist Demian Bedny, Demian the Poor Anonymous

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian author, 1880s Konstantin Schapiro

Satirist with William Scott Up Beating Coronation with John Day Up - The St. Leger 1841 John Frederick Herring Snr

Portrait of Samuel Butler with an sample of his handwriting Gerard Soest

Francesco Berni Antonio Baratti

Pietro Aretino Titian

Samuel Butler English School

Satire on the trial of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt Cornelis Saftleven

Andrew Marvell English School

Satirical cartoon depicting the key protagonists in a dance at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 French School

Portrait presumed to be Clement Marot Corneille de Lyon

Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, c.1875 George 9th Earl of Carlisle Howard

Portrait miniature of Thomas Love Peacock c.1805 Roger Jean

Satirical Fantasies, caricature of Adolphe Thiers Andre Belloguet

Dedication written by William Hogarth Frederick George Netherclift

The painters march from Finchly... Paul Sandby

Tomas de Iriarte Joaquin Inza

Ambrose Bierce John Herbert Evelyn Partington