Moral code posters & prints

The Creation. Bible moralisée (Codex Vindobonensis 2554), ca 1250 Anonymous

Girolamo Savonarola French School

Moral, 1886 Anonymous

New morality; or The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes James Gillray

New Morality; or the Promis'D Installment of the High-Priest of the Theophilanthropes Anonymous

Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints Alex Dunn

The Cottage of Content, a moral board game William Spooner

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, 1687 Francis Barlow

Mammon, 1906 [LDUCS-5260] Elinor Proby Adams

Great Democratic Moral Show Anonymous

The heart Morality Hieronymus Wierix

The Discovery, 1861-9 Thomas Edward Roberts

Moral and Philosophical Alphabet for the Use of Little and Big Children: Miseries of War, 18 Nicolas Toussaint Charlet; Bertaut

A Savage Pastime; or, the Morality of Field Sports Georgina Bowers

Moralizing Scene with an Old Woman and a Man Adriaen van de Venne

Illustration from 'L'Emile' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau published in 1851 Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal

Horatius Codes, Keijzer Hendrick Goltzius

Harlot's Progres William Hogarth

Title Page: Le Code Louis XIV, 1667 Claude Mellan

A wood engraving by Helen Press Helen Press

Operator receiving a message in Morse code on an electric printing telegraph, 1887 Unknown

The Old Man and his Sons Francis Barlow

From the series A Parents Moralising Spectacles, 1802 Kitagawa Utamaro

Victorian moral illustration of a British Workman Anonymous

Codice Murua Spanish School

Susannah and the Elders Peter Lely

Of them that make noyses rehersynges of talys and do other thynges vnlaufull and dishonest in ye chirche of God (after) German School

The Good Samaritan, c.1751-52 Francis Hayman

Leaf with Initial from a Latin Bible: Initial M: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book, c. 1220 Vienna Moralized Bible Workshop

Horatius Codes Franco Estius

Three Wise Virgins, 1907 Carlos Schwabe

Fol.15.083 from the Psychomachia by Prudentius School French

Title Page of St. Gregory's 'Moralia': Job Visited by His Three Friends…, c. 1143-1178 Abbot Frowin (probably)

Service at the Jewish Synagogue, Bevis Marks, to commemorate the hundredth year of Sir Moses Montefiore English School

Scene VII: The Rake in Prison, 1735 William (after) Hogarth

Irresolute Virtue Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun