The Tate Britain is about to host an exhibition of risqué and amusing drawings, paintings, sculptures, film and photography. This new show, “Rude Britannia: British Comic Art”, takes us through satirical caricatures, classic illustrations and naughty postcards, as well as a mechanical sculpture involving an erect sausage that thrusts in and out of a can of baked beans. Themed rooms have been put together by guest curators such as Harry Hill, Steve Bell and the Viz Magazine team, and the collection assembled by controversial cartoonist Peter Brookes includes “The Lacedaemonian Ambassadors” by Aubrey Beardsley, pictured below. (For obvious reasons, these Spartan envoys would certainly make for a far more interesting Fererro Rocher advert.)

Find out more about Rude Britannia here.