Artist
James Gillray
British, 1756–1815
James Gillray was a British Romanticism artist. 34 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. James Gillray was born in Chelsea.
James Gillray (13 August 1756 – 1 June 1815) was an English caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Many of his works are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Gillray has been called "the father of the political cartoon", with his works satirizing George III, Napoleon, prime ministers and generals.
Regarded as one of the two most influential cartoonists, the other being William Hogarth, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, keen sense of the ludicrous, and beauty of execution, at once gave him the first place among caricaturists.
Works by James Gillray
Very Slippy Weather
French Liberty and British Slavery
The Union Club
A New Way to Pay the National-Debt
Modern Grace
Titianus Redivivus
Midas, Transmuting All into Paper
Wierd-Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon
Sin, Death, and the Devil, vide Milton
Copy after James Gillray's miniature self-portrait
The Apotheosis of Hoche
Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast
The Gout
Lady Godina's Rout;-or-Peeping-Tom Spying out Pope-Joan
Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
34 works in the catalog · 24 shown
Collections represented
- Midas, Transmuting All into Paper
- Wierd-Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon
- Sin, Death, and the Devil, vide Milton
- Copy after James Gillray's miniature self-portrait
- The Apotheosis of Hoche
- Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast
- The Gout
- Lady Godina's Rout;-or-Peeping-Tom Spying out Pope-Joan
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