Humours of mayday posters & prints

The Milkmaid's Garland Francis Hayman

A Posy for Mayday and a poser for Britannia, 1910 Walter Crane

A saucy postcard Anonymous

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

Le Journal Pour Rire, Journal d'Iimages, Journal Comique, Critique, Satirique e…, August 23, 1850 Unknown

Caricature of a French Marquise Lucien Metivet

The Humours of the Pantheon William Humphrey

Title Page, The Caricature Magazine, or Mirror of Mirth, November 19, 1808 Thomas Rowlandson

Title Page, The Caricature Magazine, or Mirror of Mirth, November 1808 Thomas Rowlandson

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

Civic anointing - or - the catastrophe of Lord Mayor's Day 1827, vide Guildhall George Moutard Woodward

The May Day, 1929 Vasili Vasilyevich Kuptsov

Humours of the Fleet Prison Anonymous

The Dinner, Humours of Fox Hunting Thomas Rowlandson

Handbridge, Chester Anonymous

Times of the Day, Morning, 1738 William Hogarth

May Day 1920 Nicolas Kotcherguine

Princely Amusements or The Humors of the Family, 1812 George Cruikshank

The Betting Post, Humours of Fox Hunting Thomas Rowlandson

May Day parade in the Tower of London Anonymous

Matters of Taste No.4 / As Regards Snuffing, print made by W & J O Clerk, c.1835-40 English School

Illustration from 'The Humorous Dreams of Pantagruel' by Francois Desprez, published 1565 Francois Desprez

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

Illustration from 'The Humorous Dreams of Pantagruel' by Francois Desprez, published 1565 Francois Desprez

The Humours of a Volunteer Camp Anonymous

Illustration from 'The Humorous Dreams of Pantagruel' by Francois Desprez, published 1565 Francois Desprez

First of May. Join the battle for the five year plan, 1931 Gustav Klutsis

Maypole at the Bell Inn Sir Benjamin Stone

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

The First Of May. The USSR Is The Straight Road To Communism, 1931 Dmitri Stachievich Moor

For the Benefit of Mrs Jordan, 1787 John Boyne

The Five Orders of Periwigs, 1761 William Hogarth

The Fire of Faction, 1762 Paul Sandby

Company of Undertakers, 1736 William Hogarth

Master of St Peter's Chapel at the Vatican, print made by Mathias Oesterreich, 1751 Pier Leone Ghezzi

May Day in London William Blake