Rude Britannia: Tate Britain's ribald revival of satiric art

Thomas Rowlandson: A French Dentist Showing a Specimen of His Artificial Teeth and False Palates (1811)
Photograph: Tate Britain

William Hogarth: O the Roast Beef of Old England ('The Gate of Calais'), 1748
Photograph: Tate Britain

William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, plate 8 (1735)
Photograph: Courtesy of Andrew Edmunds

Donald McGill: A Stick of Rock, Cock? (1952)
Photograph: The British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent/Donald McGill Archive

Sarah Lucas: Chicken Knickers (1997)
Photograph: Tate Britain

Gerald Scarfe: Ptorydactyl (1989)
Photograph: Gerald Scarfe/Tate Photography

David Shrigley: I'm Dead (2007)
Photograph: Tate Britain

John Isaacs: If Not Now Then When
Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

Kennard Phillipps: Photo Op (2005)
Photograph: Tate Britain

A visitor looks at a giant copy of Viz Comic magazine
Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

Angus Fairhurst: The Problem With Banana Skins Divided/Inverted (1998)
Photograph: Estate of Angus Fairhurst, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Beryl Cook: Ladies' Night (Ivor Dickie), 1981
Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

Comedian Harry Hill in front of Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson's Death to the Fascist Fruit Boys (2010)
Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features