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Fools parsley, hemlock and northern water hemlockFools parsley, Aethusa cynapium 1, hemlock, Conium maculatum 2, and northern water hemlock, Cicuta virosa 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder
Death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, and fools mushroom, Amanita verna. Highly poisonous mushrooms. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A
French April Fools Card - Flying Fish Aeroplane sending Best Wishes.....!! Date: circa 1909
LORNA DOONE/BLACKMOREJohn Ridd and Lorna are called before Ensor Doone, who says Fools you are - be fools for ever, before he dies later. Date: First published: 1869
Young man fools about in The Stocks. Date: 1953
Fools dance, 14th centuryA line of fools in hoods with bells dancing the fools dance to bagpipe and regal music, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports
Mummers and fools, 14th centuryMummers in odd masks and colourful robes (top, bottom), and a line of fools in hoods with bells dancing to bagpipe and regal music at a Festival of Fools (middle), 14th century
Three women in Venetian dress from the Harlequinade, or Italian comic theatre. From a mural in the Fools Staircase in Klaussnitz Castle
Fools mushroom, Amanita vernaDeadly amanita, fools mushroom, destroying angel or the mushroom fool, Amanita verna (Amanita vernus). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our
Fools parsley, Aethusa cynapiumFools parsley, fools cicely, or poison parsley, Aethusa cynapium. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley
Curtis British Entomology Plate 11Coleoptera: Molorchus minor (Maculated Molorchus) [Plant: Aethusa cynapium (Fool?s Parsley)] Date: 1824-39
Frog fishing on a French April Fool postcard, with a comic verse about the frog being eaten by a mackerel. Date: circa 1900s
French Theatre -- Sottie du Prince des SotzSottie du Prince des Sotz (Foolery from the Prince of Fools), by Pierre Gringore (Gringoire). Showing a musician in a red and grey fools costume, standing on one leg and playing the mandolin
Scene at the Festival of Fools, Penzance, Cornwall -- a violinist named Wilfred entertains three small children. Date: circa 1970s
The Tatler front cover - Christmas Number 1937Front cover of The Tatler magazines Christmas number featuring a jester laughing heartily. Date: 1937
House of Fools of Love by Francisco Quevedo. IllustrationFrancisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645). Spanish writer. House of Fools of Love. Illustration. Printed in 1895. Private collection
Kicking the bucket to keep alive and well! 1914Interestingly this artical was published on April fools day in The Sketch, 1914, you can come to your own conclusions! Latest primitive life-saving device invented by a German engineer
Two pigs on a French April Fool postcardTwo pigs with a basket of flowers on a French April Fool postcard. Date: circa 1890s
French Theatre -- Les Sobres SotzLes Sobres Sotz (The Sober Fools), a farce, showing a fool, Le Badin, in yellow and green motley. Date: 16th century
Mens and womens costume, 1510-1550.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889
Favourite Sayings - Fools set stools for wise men to tumbleBlack and white lantern slide of a young man crouched down holding a stool in front of an old man walking along reading a book. Painted background shows the interior of a kitchen
Cartoon, Men from The Moon, WW1Cartoon, 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
Pyrite, Fools GoldRegular, cube-shaped crystals look as if they ve been polished but are formed like this within rock cavities. Pyrite comprises of (iron sulphide)