Proverb illustration posters & prints

A pair of pigeons illustrating the proverb As Alike as Two Pigeons. Calcutta, India, early 19th century Unknown

A Proverb - Letting the Cat out of the Bag, Pieter the Younger Brueghel

A Proverb - To Fill up the Well After the Calf has Drowned, Pieter the Younger Brueghel

The Blind Leading the Blind, 1621-22 Domenico Fetti or Feti

Flemish Proverbs Pieter the Younger Brueghel

The Netherlandish Proverbs (The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World), 1559 Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Illustration of Dutch Boy with His Finger in a Leaking Dyke Grace P. Smith

Lagging Never Leads Illustration Anonymous

Twelve Proverbs, c.1558-60 Pieter the Elder Bruegel

Proverb: Ick bints not only, Baptista van Doetechum François van den Hoeye

The Wisdom of Fools, from Six Proverbs Jacques de Gheyn II

The Misanthrope Robbed by the World, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs, ca. 1568 Jan Wierix

Old Mother Goose Illustration Frederick Richardson

Of pluralitees that is to say of them whiche charge them selfe with many benefycis (after) German School

Book Illustration Showing Jack and the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg Clara M. Burd

Of hym that wyll nat folowe nor ensue good counsell, and necessary from an edition published in 1874

Illustration of a Little Girl Scolding a Cat Anonymous

Illustration of Impoverished Children Receiving Food Anonymous

Illustration of children feeding geese Anonymous

Of them that forceth or careth for the bacbytynge of lewde people (after) German School

The Fortunes of a Street Waif Book Illustration Anonymous

The Flemish Proverbs Pieter Balten

Book Illustration of Children Praying Lizzie Lawson

Two farmers in conversation Franco Estius

Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick Illustration Frederick Richardson

Mother Goose's Menagerie Book Illustration Peter Newell

Cover illustration for Good Housekeeping magazine, October 1928 Jessie Willcox Smith

Of great wrathe, procedynge of small occasyon (after) German School

Illustration from 'The Life and Adventures of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell' by Abbé Prévost French School

Illustration from 'The Life and Adventures of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell' by Abbé Prévost Marguerite Ponce

The Fortunes of a Street Waif Book Illustration Anonymous

A Frog He Would A Wooing Go Illustration Anonymous

The Fox and the Stork Francis Barlow

Ice Ahead! Illustration Anonymous

Of contempt, or dispisynge of holy scripture (after) German School

Illustration of "Ride a Cock Horse" Nursery Rhyme Anonymous