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- Archives and manuscripts
"Photocircus: Snap out of It? You Must be Joking!"
Date: 2000Reference: PP/KEN/141Part of: Keith Kennedy- Books
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The art of joking; or, an essay on witticism; in the manner of Mr. Pope's Essay on criticism: with Proper Examples to the Risible Rules. To which is added The laws of laughing, and the contrast, or a Joke and a Jest, In small compass exprest.
Smilewell, Samuel.Date: [1774?]- Pictures
Title page to a series entitled 'Thirty-six joking, playful selections of famous places in Tokyo'. Colour woodcut by Ikkei, 1870s.
Ikkei, active approximately 1870.Date: [between 1870 and 1879]Reference: 36961i- Books
An address on the psychology of joking / delivered at the opening of the Medical Society of London, October 1887 by [John Hughlings Jackson].
Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911.Date: 1932- Books
Rituals of silence : long-term tranquilizer use by women in the Netherlands a social case study / Joke Haafkens.
Haafkens, Joke.Date: 1997- Pictures
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A parson being put into bed with an ass dressed in a frilled nightgown, as a practical joke. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1 February [1814]Reference: 38424i- Books
Models of discovery and creativity / Joke Meheus, Thomas Nickles, editors.
Date: [2009], ©2009- Pictures
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A boy appearing to two girls as a ghost. Stipple engraving after R. Westall.
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836.Reference: 11546i- Pictures
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A doctor telling one of his jovial patients that he would probably make jokes on his death bed, the patient retorts he would - being his last chance. Wood engraving by P. May, 1901.
May, Philip William, 1864-1903.Date: 1901Reference: 15335i- Pictures
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Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: Jany. 28 1811Reference: 35674i- Books
Joco-seriorum naturae et artis, sive magiae naturalis centuriae tres / [Anon.] Accessit diattibe [sic] de prodigiosis crucibus [by A. Kircher].
Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666.Date: [1666]- Pictures
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Road-racers on hand-cycles (above); a Japanese joins together with a rod the shoes of two Europeans so that they cannot walk (below). Colour process print, 1909.
Date: [15 September 1909]Reference: 730337i- Books
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The Pleasant history of the frolicksome courtier, and the jovial tinker. Full of wit and merriment.
Date: 1775?]- Pictures
A dentist telling his patient a joke in the middle of an operation: the patient is not amused. Wood engraving by E.T. Reed, 1891.
Reed, Edward Tennyson, 1860-1933.Date: 1891Reference: 14293i- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin playing the fool at a picnic with his loved one and friends. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12133i- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin walking down a street on his way to court a lady, unknown to him a placard has been stuck on to his back declaring his intentions to all. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12125i- Books
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The Blackest of all black jokes. Or, No joke like a true joke. An excellent new ballad. To the tune of The old black joke.
Date: 1753?]- Pictures
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A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.
Anton, 1912-1970.Date: 1940Reference: 15535i- Pictures
A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755.Date: [1736]Reference: 23083i- Books
Merrie conceited iests of George Peele, gentleman, sometimes student in Oxford. Wherein is shewed the course of his life. How he lived, a man very well knowne in the city of London and elsewhere.
Date: 1809- Archives and manuscripts
Joke correspondence re dehydrated dill water
Date: June 1944Reference: RAMC/1108/21Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
Jokes and the doctor-patient relationship / Bernard B. Zeitlyn.
Zeitlyn, Bernard B.Date: 1972- Pictures
The abbé de Gondi being exorcised by Carthusian monks. Engraving by Ferdinand after N. Thomas.
Thomas, N. (Napoléon)Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 2821863i- Pictures
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A man making fun of a physician because he keeps two wild animals as pets, in a tent in India(?). Lithograph by R.J. Hamerton after himself.
Hamerton, Robert Jacob.Reference: 21823i- Books
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Ecclesiastical transactions: or, a collection of reverend jokes.
Date: 1742