Satirical and bawdy poetry posters & prints

Westminster Hall, the first day of term, a satirical poem C Mosely

Westminster Hall, The First Day of Term, A Satirical Poem, 1797 engraved by C.Mosley Hubert Gravelot

Sheet of Satirical Studies, c. 1650s Salvator Rosa

Broad Bottoms, 1745 English School

Misfortune makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows, 1847 John Doyle

A Choice of Evils Captain Clive Dixon

The Jacobite's journal William Hogarth

The Bawd of the Nation, or the Way to Grow Rich English School

Samuel Butler, 17th century English poet and satirist Anonymous

Doctor Doublepulse Thomas Rowlandson

Title Page for 'The Parliament of Women', 1656 English School

Portrait of John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester Peter (after) Lely

Anti-Catholic Poem Anonymous

A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion, published in 1792 English School

An Election Entertainment, 1755 William Hogarth

The Union Club, 1801 James Gillray

A true smoker Honore Daumier

Satire Anonymous

Coffee's the Thing! Go it ye Tigers!, November 1823 Richard Dighton

Illustration from the poem Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, 1726. William Hogarth

The Martyr Church English School

English Broadsides and French Quarters Cartoon Anonymous

The Journalist Samuel Collings

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

Very Slippy Weather, engraved by J. Sidebotham James Gillray

The Distressed Poet William Hogarth

A Hint to the Ladies to take Care of their Heads, printed by Sayer + Bennet, 1776 Samuel Hieronymous (after) Grimm

Pidgeon Hole - A Convent [sic] Garden contrivance to coop up the gods, 1811 Thomas Rowlandson

Starving poet and publisher Thomas Rowlandson

Satirical Cartoon about the Southwark Water Company, 1832 George Cruikshank

The Whore's Last Shift English School

Matthew Bramble's Trip to Bath: Arrival at Bath Thomas Rowlandson

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

Prehistoric Peeps, 'No Bathing Today', 1884 Edward Tennyson Reed

Plum Pudding Billy in All his Glory, after Dent, 1784 William Dent

Premiere Loge d'un theatre Fortune Delarue