| Punch or May Day | |
| Artist: | Benjamin Robert Haydon |
| Year: | 1829 |
| Type: | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Height Metric: | 150.5 |
| Width Metric: | 185.1 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Tate Gallery |
| City: | London |
Punch or May Day is an 1829 genre painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon.[1] [2] [3] It depicts a street scene on the May Day holiday in the Marylebone district of London during the final year of the reign of George IV at the end of the Regency era.
The canvas is filled with multiple mini-scenes including a Punch and Judy the coach of a newly married couple and a funeral procession. In the background on the right is St Marylebone Church.[4] Today it is in the Tate Collection, having been bequeathed by George Darling in 1862.