Humourist posters & prints

Alphonse Allais, French writer and humourist Anonymous

American Humorist: Charles Godfrey Leland (Hans Breitmann) Anonymous

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

Portrait of George Moore Jacques-Emile Blanche

Thomas Hood, British humorist and poet WH Smith

American Humorist: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Anonymous

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

Dmitry Dmitryevich Minaev, Russian poet, 1860s Anonymous

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

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

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

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, English parodist and caricaturist William Rothenstein

Samuel Butler, 17th century English poet and satirist Anonymous

The Clerical Magistrate, 1819 George Cruikshank

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

The Jacobite's journal William Hogarth

British tourists Gustave Dore

The humours and diversions of Southwark Fair, London Anonymous

Satire on Vestris Paul Sandby

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

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Cassell

The Humours of the Pantheon William Humphrey

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

The Humours of a Volunteer Camp Anonymous

Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright, poet and essayist Anonymous

Humours of the Fleet Prison Anonymous

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

The Humours of Boxing Day: Music Underground, Sketch on a Wristband Anonymous

William Morris, Poet, Socialist, and Craftsman Rischgitz Collection

James Russell Lowell, Humorous Poet Rischgitz Collection

The Dinner, Humours of Fox Hunting Thomas Rowlandson

The View and Humours of Billingsgate Anonymous

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

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