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Happy Birthday to the great James Gillray! (1756‒1815)

Doublûres of Characters or striking Resemblances in Phisiognomy.
November 1798
Hand-coloured etching



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2020-08-13

Also the site of a major demonstration against draconian laws in the 1790s. James Gillray mocks the protesters in the print attached, see https://t.co/lfIAmuMkRM.

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2020-08-06

"Plum Pudding". The famous eighteenth century British caricaturist James Gillray’s most famous print, from 1805, shows William Pitt and Napoleon seated at table, carving up the world between them to consume it.

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2020-07-04

Died 1Jun1815 James Gillray - Prince of Caricaturist - Francis Grose, the famous English antiquarian and lexicographer, wrote a book titled ... https://t.co/W3cA1FJXCS

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2020-06-01

Lady Godina's Rout;-or-Peeping-Tom Spying out Pope-Joan, James Gillray, 1796 https://t.co/w7MEEpcHmx

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2020-05-31

I hope thistle please Scottish historians: A carriage crashes in the glens, exposing its driver's bare arse to the sky

'Hold your hound Mun, Hold your Hound!
_en truth mun; e'n gin ye na mind yoursel
youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his Creels!'

May 25th 1805

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2020-05-25

'Light expelling darkness, - evaporation of stygian exhalations, - or - the sun of the constitution, rising superior to the clouds of opposition' by James Gillray (1756-1815)
Etching, 1795.



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2020-05-14

Disappointed with footfall to his Shakespeare Gallery, Alderman Boydell was thought to have vandalised some of his own exhibits to excite public sympathy and publicity. Gillray compared him to the notorious Monster, April 26th 1791

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2020-04-26

ALL HAIL THE KING of 18th century sassy, caricaturist James Gillray.

In this infamous print, 'Lubber's Hole', the future William IV, a notorious womaniser, is seen singing a shanty as he... ahem 'enters' his mistress 'The Crack'd Jordan'

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2020-04-24

Steve Bell shows Prime Minister Tony Blair, Gillray shows Prime Minister William Pitt driving his chariot over opposition to war with revolutionary France, for details see catalogue, https://t.co/JIkzoonSZc https://t.co/424wDlnNaf

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2020-04-09

Here's my British print of the day from . Gillray's wonderful image of the state of the nation in 1795 - maybe a bit too topical. See Dorothy George's detailed account at https://t.co/SnabNlyAcR - and look at that wonderful aquatint!

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2020-03-29

The fishwives of Billingsgate Market in legendary for their savage conversation, would probably have told to 'Fuck right off!!' for portraying them in this satire, January 6th 1795

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2020-01-06

Nicola Jennings aportó la versión a la colección de recreaciones de 'A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion' de Gillray: (2018), Chris Duggan (2009) y (1992)

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2019-12-30

Nicola Jennings on Boris Johnson's Christmas message - political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6

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2019-12-28

Gillray satire from December 1807 showing the perils of going hunting carrying too much ballast

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2019-12-27

Scene from a provincial Assembly Room, where an ugly git toasts his arse on the fire as he tries to prevent a pretty young woman escaping his clutches; whilst another lady has her fan firmly closed against him - by 20 November 1804

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2019-11-20

Otra muestra reciente de la admirable costumbre del británico de homenajear, a veces un poco abusivamente, a sus clásicos: sobre James Gillray

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2019-11-05

Gillray reflects on the decade since the French Revolution, contrasting a deferential courtier of the 'ancien régime' (left) with the brash bludgeon-carrying confidence of new republicanism. Published in August 15th 1799

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2019-08-15

Gillray, who was born 1756, caricatured the great & the good as well as depicting social scenes & more surreal subjects. He is particularly valuable for students of for his depictions of MPs mid-flow in the old House of Commons
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2019-08-13

Born 1756 in James Gillray, pre-eminent caricaturist of the period

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2019-08-13