Regency England Fan Mugs

'Fashionable Jockeyship' - Prince George Cuckolding Lord Jersey

"We're following Carrot Top."

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

King George I

'Fancy you doing a curtsey and she being a non-serving royal, you big dope!'

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

TV jester.

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

"The peasants are revolting Sire."

The Da Vinci Cod

The University Cricket Match - a sketch at Lord's.

Oh, wait - Their king posted a declaration of war on your Facebook wall this morning.

World Cup Fever

'The King of what?'

"A wise choice sir! Aah. . . Da Vinci - a genius of the Renaissance and a man who changed the face of art forever! Would you like that as a bookmark, a pencil sharpener or a fridge magnet. . . ?"

You're my Venus

'Look, Carl, the glory days are over. You might want to slip into something a little more comfortable.'

Cargo Bay at Thames Warehouse

It had been a while, but he had finally come home.

'Yes, he definitely wants something. . . maybe his crown and scepter.'

King and Jester

"When we asked you to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michaelangelo, we were hoping you'd snazz it up."

"One blackbird pizza?"

"You're unlikely to find anyplace on the market that is truly impregnable."

Cut out and keep your own Jane Austen.

'Why round? Why not square? Or rectangle? Or a triangle? Or . . . '

Edmund Kean Supporting Drury Lane

An August Bank-Holiday in the East End.

'I know it seems like a war, but it's actually an all-out struggle for peace!'

"...and if any of you are opposed to my being king of the snake pit, raise your hands now!"

1867 Reform Act: 'Fagin's Political School'

"Another selfie, Rembrandt?"

'And there he was shouting: 'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!'... I thought to myself: Why not...'

'You're going to make the railroads run on time? -- Since when do we have railroads?'

"I'm not loitering officer, I 'm waiting for the next renaissance!"