Fool Collection (page 2)

Twelfth Night - title page - Malvolio cross-gartered before Olivia. 1862

Two pigs on a French April Fool postcard
Two pigs with a basket of flowers on a French April Fool postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Woman jester
Front cover of The Sketch showing a female jester. 1894

Music cover, Trifles Light As Air, sung by Harry Clifton. circa 1870

Sychronised Swimming Team - sky-larking again
Bournemouth, Dorset - female members of the Aquashow Sychronised Swimming Team - sky-larking again up a tree! Date: 1962

Two fish on a French April Fool greetings card
Two fish with flowers on a French April Fool (Poisson d Avril) greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

The Monitor: Automatic but not fool-proof by H. M. Bateman
" The Monitor. Automatic, but not fool-proof: a war-drama in nine fits." This Bateman cartoon from World War One sends up the jingoistic, often misguided

French Theatre -- Les Sobres Sotz
Les Sobres Sotz (The Sober Fools), a farce, showing a fool, Le Badin, in yellow and green motley. Date: 16th century

A fool from La Fonti at the Academie Imperiale de Musique.. La Fonti was a ballet and pantomime by the dancer and choreographer Joseph Mazilier (1801-1868)

Poisonous fools mushroom Amanita verna and edible European white egg mushroom Amanita ovoidea.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Maggie Teyte (1888 1976), English operatic soprano and interpreter of French art song. Performing in an oprea The Perfect Fool at Covent garden, London. 1923

Suffragette Lunatic Asylum. Inmate of Lunatic Asylum tells mannish suffragette in tweed suit, spats and hat, What! You, a militant suffragette! Pooh

Suffragette in Cell. Suffragette in prison cell looks out as policeman winks broadly. What a sell, I ll never be a Fool again he vows. Date: circa 1908

Cartoon, Men from The Moon, WW1
Cartoon, Men from The Moon, commenting on three neutral powers in the early weeks of the First World War (Holland, America and Italy), and how they are regarded by the German government

The Water Crawl Widgeon by Heath Robinson
The " Water Crawl" Widgeon - bluffing device on the Norfolk jungle. Another mind-boggling idea from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson

WW1 - Soldier gives away all souvenir buttons from uniform
WW1 - A slightly daft-looking young Soldier has to resort to a large safety pin, as he has given away all the souvenir buttons from his uniform to family and female admirers... Date: circa 1915

A French Gentleman enquires after the health of an idiot
A smart French Gentleman enquires after the health of an obvious idiot. " Vat as been ze mattare? Zey tell me you af not ad ze good ealths

A rather feeble suitor with a rather loud suit
He: " Oh! Smile upon my suit." She: " I do, I do. I can t help it." Date: 1895

Turkish Archytype smoking a pipe conected to a stove
Caricature Turkish Archytype smoking a pipe connected to a stove Date: circa late 1920s

You can fool some of the people all of the time. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with John A. Dowie as a wizard at center offering salvation and other products to gullible customers

The fool by Channing Pollock The fool by Channing Pollock
The fool by Channing Pollock. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Fool at the Mason Theatre, 127 S. Broadway, Calif. Date 1936

Federal Road-show attraction The fool by Channing Pollock Fe
Federal Road-show attraction The fool by Channing Pollock. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Fool at the Mason Theatre, 127 S. Broadway. Date 1936

Fools Parsley (Aethusa Cynapium), a poisonous European hedgerow plant. Date: 1930s

Henry Brooke, Writer - 1
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality. Date: 1703 - 1783

Henry Brooke, Writer - 2
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality. Date: 1703 - 1783

Henry Brooke, Writer - 3
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality, seated at a table, writing. with his autograph Date: 1703 - 1783

Dunderpate and his schoolmaster. The teacher says hes never known such a lazy, stupid fellow, and believes he hasn t enough sense to go in when it rains. Date: 1938

JL. Simple Simon
Simple Simon fishing in a bucket... late 19th century

D Carleton-Smythe. Simple Simon
Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair... 20th century

Jesters (Smith)
In the background is a FOOL, a kind of domestic idiot : the JESTER is a more sophisticated creature, expected to be witty rather than the butt of coarse amusement. Date: 1272

Lear and the Fool on the heath

Lovers tiff
A young couple sit at opposite sides of a garden bench, his top hat separates them. They appear not to be on speaking terms

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Fool - donkey
What makes your ears so long ?. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a fool, from a dead goose, via a donkey

Magician / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper makes his debut on the boards at a London Music Hall in the roll of a professional trickster, where he sits on an unsuspecting woman in an attempt to make her disappear

A Fool and his money is soon parted A bellboy and a lady are doing their best to remove the money from a gentlemans wallet!

Drinking at a picnic - possibly in Iran
A group of British diplomatic (or foreign service) personnel fool about during a picnic, possibly in Iran. Their attendant guard seems totally unfazed by the high jinks

Lear / Nonsense / Leeds
There was an Old Person of Leeds, whose head was infested with beads; She sat on a stool, and ate gooseberry fool, which agreed with that person of Leeds

Court of Van Artevelde
Jacob Van Artevelde holding state at his court in Ghent after assuming supreme power in Flanders

Fool Selling his Wisdom
THE FOOL SELLING WISDOM A crowd, including someone carried in a sedan chair, gathers round a lute-playing man

Dancing Roadmenders
A group of men, roadmenders, one of them playing a fiddle while the others dance and fool around in their lunch hour!

Court Jester Entertains
A Court Jester entertains the throng at a medieval dining table

Odysseus in Disguise
Odysseus, having returned from his travels, but disguised into an old man to fool his wife Penelopes Suitors, is recognised by old nurse Eurycleia, who washes his feet

Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires, a secret patriotic organisation whose members dressed as women to fool the authorities

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