Fooling about posters & prints

Boyish Pranks, 1885 Karl Witkowski

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

Of them that forceth or careth for the bacbytynge of lewde people (after) German School

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

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

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

Design for a Quatrefoil with a Castle, Two Lovers, a Maiden Tempted by a Fool, a Couple Seated by a... Anonymous

Initial D: The Fool, with a Dog Face and Wearing Winged Headgear, Menacing Christ, bas-de-page A Fool Making Face at... Bute Master

The Fool and a Demon Master of Jean de Mandeville

Of them that folysshly speke agaynst the workes of God from an edition published in 1874

Of bostynge or hauynge confydence in fortune German School

Of yonge folys that take olde wymen to theyr wyues, for theyr ryches (after) German School

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

Of lepynges and dauncis and folys that pas theyr tyme in suche vanyte (after) German School

Tomfoolery, 2009 Susan Bower

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

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

Of folys without prouysyon (after) German School

Of folys that despyse deth makynge no prouysion therfore (after) German School

Here begynneth the foles and first inprofytable bokes (after) German School

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

Of enuyous folys (after) German School

Of the ende of worldly honour and power and of folys that trust therein (after) German School

Of great stryuers in the lawe for thynges of nought (after) German School

Of folisshe cokes and buttelers and other offycers of howsholde that wast theyr maysters good without mesure German School

Of foles abhomynable in fowle wordes of rybawdry (after) German School

Of the folisshe begynnynge of great bildynges without sufficient prouision (after) German School

Of folysshe beggers and of theyr vanytees (after) German School

Of folys that despyse God (after) German School

An appropriate emblem for the triumphal arch of the new (Buckingham) palace ..., London SW Fores

Of old folys that is to say the longer they lyue the more they ar gyuen to foly (after) German School

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

A Fool and a Woman, 1520 Lucas van Leyden

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

The Mocking of Human Follies Frans Verbeeck

Two Fools Dancing from Two and Three Fools of the Carnival, 1642 Hendrick Hondius I