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Aunque sea con una semana de retraso, la versión de de "An Excrescence; A Fungus; Alias A Toadstool upon a Dung-hill" 20/12/1791 de James Gillray

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👉https://t.co/A7c1gsJD70

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2023-03-11

Xi and Biden cutting up the plumb-pudding (after James Gillray). Today's cartoon by Rainer Hachfeld. More cartoons: https://t.co/Oj6r8LQzys

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2023-03-07

What is the most iconic depiction of Napoleon?

David - Napoleon crossing the alps

Gillray - Plum Pudding in Danger

Canova - Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker

Delaroche - Napoleon at Fontainebleau

Open to other suggestions (especially from Napoleon’s ‘Rod Stewart’ phase)

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2023-02-25

y representados por a imagen de 'The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver' (26/6/1803) de James Gillray

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👉https://t.co/zYrOEquiob

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2023-02-07

"Windy Weather". James Gillray. 1808.

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2023-01-29

Could this be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?

("The Elements of Skating: Attitude is Everything !"
James Gillray, 1805)

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2023-01-18

This print got its creator, James Gillray, in a spot of bother with the authorities. Not, surprisingly, because of its mockery of a drunk and unsteady future Prince Regent, but for its jocular evocation of the Nativity scene.

It was published on this day in 1796.

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2023-01-09

Radical cambio de papel de s/ 8/11/2017 en la versión vs. de de "El pudín de ciruela en peligro" (1805) de James Gillray

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👉https://t.co/zSJYMoJGRm

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2022-11-14

Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis by James Gillray (1793).

William Pitt the Younger, Chancellor of the Exchequer, steers the ship Constitution carrying Britannia

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2022-09-20

James Gillray, The Fall Of Icarus, Bohn Edition, 1851.

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2022-09-13

This cartoon, titled the “Apotheosis of the Corsican-pheonix,” is a commentary on Napoleon. Its artist, James Gillray, also created the myth that Napoleon was short.

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2022-08-26

James Gillray b.
Search the digital library for more than 900 images of works by the noted English caricaturist https://t.co/IHdzUe97Ff

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2022-08-13

James Gillray, pre-eminent caricaturist of the was born 1756.
During his last few years he struggled with his mental health & was cared for by long-term landlady & likely partner, who owned the shop where his prints were displayed.

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2022-08-13

The latest in our rare books series highlights Sir Humphry Davy - illustrious former owner of a book on the plague now in our Library 📚

Read more here: https://t.co/22P9t9igtT


(Image - Gillray cartoon of Davy demonstrating nitrous oxide .)

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2022-08-12

A rare bit of art from me. The profoundly gifted James Gillray. Got a couple of these beauts on my wall in the office.

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2022-08-12