Farce posters & prints

Italian and French Comedians Playing in Farces, 1670 Verio

Scene from the New Farce of the Two Bonnycastles, at the Haymarket Theatre, London Anonymous

Scene in the Farce 'Lofty Prospects' as performed with great success for the Benefit and amusement of John Bull, 1825 George Cruikshank

Scene from the New Farce of the Slow Man at the Adelphi Theatre London UK 1854 Anonymous

Shakkyo no shinikyogen, Farce of the lions at stone bridge Kobayashi Kiyochika

Design for the title page of the farce of The Deceived Bernard Picart

Shakkyo No Shinikyogen, Farce of the Lions at Stone Bridge. 1904 Anonymous

Italian and French Comedians Playing in Farces, 1670 Verio

Commedia dell'Arte: Italian and French Comedians Playing in Farces Anonymous

Europe in masquerade, or the Royal farce G Foster

Farce Actors Dancing Pieter Jansz. Quast

A Performance of the Farce Playerwater at a Flemish Festival (Village Kermesse) Belgium Pieter Balten

Europe in Masquerade, or the Royal Farce, by G. Foster, 1747 English School

Farce on orvietan sellers at the Saint-Germain fair in Paris, c.1620-30 French School

Portrait of Georges Feydeau Charles Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran

A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’, c. 1570 Pieter Balten

Comedians at the theatre of Hotel de Bourgogne Abraham Bosse

Satirical theatrical performance given by King Philip IV of Spain to his guest Charles I of England, 1623 Pieter van der Aa I

The Commedia dell'Arte Company French School

Harlequin, Emperor on the Moon Claude Gillot/Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Street Performers at the Carnival Populaire, Rue Saint Antoine, c.1670 French School

Le Plus farceur de la société, 1847 Honoré Daumier

Quand on a un père farceur, 1848 Honoré Daumier

Maitre Pathelin and Guillemette French School

A Scapin or Comedy Scene, c.1863-1865 Honore Daumier

Scene from Moliere's 'The Would-be Gentleman', 1848 William Powell Frith

Pathelin and the Draper and Pathelin before the Judge French School

Harlequin, Emperor on the Moon Claude Gillot/Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Mary Brough (1863-1834), English actress Anonymous

Theatre Bill advertising perfomances of Mr. Kean, 1818 English School

Scene from 'Le Misanthrope' by Moliere Pierre (after) Brissart

Portrait of J. Heermans or Pieter Harman Country Fair

Costume design for Mlle Madeleine Brohant for the role of Marianne in 'Les Caprices de Marianne' by Alfred de Musset... Eugene Giraud

Sid James Ron Burton

'Horace', Lord Farquhar, British financier and politician Spy

Charles Farley as Francisco in 'A Tale of Mystery' by Thomas Holcroft, at the Covent Garden Theatre, 1802 Samuel de Wilde