Mockery posters & prints

Of mockers, and scorners, and false accusers (after) German School

Taunting Smoke from a Pipe, 1823 Thomas Rowlandson

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

The Mocking of Christ Quentin Massys or Matsys

The Mocking of Christ Jan Sanders van Hemessen

Christ and the Politicians, 2000 Laila Shawa

The Mocking of Christ Jerg Ratgeb

A Fraudulent Baker, 1293 English School

The Mocking of Christ, from the Circular Passion, 1509 Lucas van Leyden

The Guilty William Henry Pyne

A Midsummer Pantomime Joseph Swain

Job Mocked by His Wife, c.1620-50 Georges de la Tour

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

The Smokers' Rebellion George Henry Boughton

Certain City macaronis drinking asses' milk Anonymous

The Robbing Hood Debating Society Anonymous

The Taming of the Shrew: Katherine and Petruchio, 1855 Robert Braithwaite Martineau

Christ Carrying the Cross Girolamo Romanino

Yes Sir, they had the cheek to reject this picture from the exhibition...you can see for yourself how conscientiously I... Honore Daumier

The Drunkard Pushed into the Pigsty Pieter the Younger Brueghel

The expense of lawyers Anonymous

Temptation of Christ in the desert by the devil, 12th century French School

A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of ye incredible folly transacted in...1720 Bernard Baron

Ridiculous Taste, or The Ladies Absurdity, c.1776 Matthew or Matthias Darly

A Parody on Macbeth's Soliloquy at Covent Garden Theatre Anonymous

Frederick Ashton in Cinderella at the Royal Opera house Anthony Crickmay

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

Ridiculous taste or the ladies absurdity, 1771 Matthew Darly

A forcible entrance into Leadenhall-Street; by Master Billy Declaratory upon a Dun'd-ass Anonymous

This image was used as a broadside by the 'reformers' against the Roman Catholic Church Schoen Eduard

The five orders of perriwigs' 1761 William Hogarth

Tear'em At The Tuileries John Tenniel

Satirical poster on the League of Nations, 1920. Vladimir Mayakovsky

The Crowning with Thorns and the Mocking of Christ Hendrick Ter Brugghen

A Spartan points out a drunken slave to his sons, 1900 Fernand Sabbate

Wine is a mocker Frans van Mieris