Satirical poet posters & prints

Samuel Butler, 17th century English poet and satirist Anonymous

Starving poet and publisher Thomas Rowlandson

The Distressed Poet William Hogarth

Dr Samuel Johnson School English

Sir William Watson (1858-1935), English poet Max Beerbohm

Dmitry Dmitryevich Minaev, Russian poet, 1860s Anonymous

Dr. Samuel Johnson Auguste Christian Fleischmann

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

James Russell Lowell, Humorous Poet Rischgitz Collection

Alexander Pope, English poet and satirist Anonymous

The Distressed Poet, 1740 William Hogarth

Broad Bottoms, 1745 English School

The Bruiser, C. Churchill ... in the character of a Russian Hercules ... William Hogarth

Portrait of Charles Churchill: English poet and satirist, 1763-1764 J.S.C. Schaak

English Poet Coventry Patmore Anonymous

Satan in all his Glory... James Gillray

Satyrical Poetry, ca. 1741 Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune

The Author Run Mad, 1755 Paul Sandby

A description of the miseries of a garreteer poet, 1751 John June

Samuel Butler Gerard Soest

The Distrest Poet, December 15, 1740 William Hogarth

Satire on Vestris Paul Sandby

Paul Verlaine Max Beerbohm

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

The Robbing Hood Debating Society Anonymous

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

Satire on a castrato singer, 1730-40 Hubert Francois Gravelot

Commedia dell'Arte: Italian and French Comedians Playing in Farces Anonymous

Sheet of Satirical Studies, c. 1650s Salvator Rosa

Satire on hygiene Crispijn van de Passe I

Samuel Butler Gerard Soest

I say the critic must keep out of the region of immediate practice Coide

Poet Caroline Norton Anonymous

Frontispiece to 'Memoirs of a Stomach' by The Minister for the Interior, 1850 English School

Samuel Butler English School

Mars and Venus, or Sir Cecil chastised Samuel Collings