Humourist posters & prints

Alphonse Allais, French writer and humourist Anonymous

American Humorist: Charles Godfrey Leland (Hans Breitmann) Anonymous

American Humorist: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Anonymous

Portrait of George Moore Jacques-Emile Blanche

'Mark Twain', The greatest of all American humorists Rischgitz Collection

Thomas Hood, British humorist and poet WH Smith

Dmitry Dmitryevich Minaev, Russian poet, 1860s Anonymous

Humorous cartoon from the front cover of 'Le Rire', 22nd April 1899 Lucien Metivet

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), English playwright and humorist Frederick Downer & Sons

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer Ernest H Mills

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

The Journalist Samuel Collings

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

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

Mr. Harry Furniss Lecturing on the Humours of Parliament: The Lecturer and the G.O.M. Become a Little Mixed on the... Anonymous

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, English parodist and caricaturist William Rothenstein

Samuel Butler, 17th century English poet and satirist Anonymous

Humorous History illustration Anonymous

The humours and diversions of Southwark Fair, London Anonymous

Satire on Vestris Paul Sandby

British tourists Gustave Dore

James Russell Lowell, Humorous Poet Rischgitz Collection

The Humours of the Pantheon William Humphrey

Barry Humphries Carl Bruin

Frontispiece to 'The Humours of Oxford', April 1730 Unknown

The Humours of a Volunteer Camp Anonymous

Humours of the Fleet Prison Anonymous

The View and Humours of Billingsgate Anonymous

The Dinner, Humours of Fox Hunting Thomas Rowlandson

Lecture by Mr. Harry Furniss on the Humours of Parliament Anonymous

Barry Humphries Staff

David Hume, 1711 - 1776. Historian and philosopher Louis Carrogis

An Irish wake... Anonymous

The Humours of the Westminster Election or the Scald-Miserable Independent Electors in the Suds, 1747 English School

His Favourite Part Joseph Swain

George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906), English secularist W&D Downey