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

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2020-11-05

‘The Fall Of Icarus’ by James Gillray, Bohn Edition, 1851. Originally published by H. Humphrey, London, 1805.

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2020-10-31

Weird sisters; ministers of darkness; minions of the moon https://t.co/BWUUgBbpi4 James Gillray, 1791; "A burlesque of Fuseli's well-known picture illustrating 'Macbeth', i. 3. The three witches are Dundas, Pitt, and Thurlow, in profile to the right instead of to the left.

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2020-10-31

Hello another for the challenge - stolen from Mr Gillray - somebody stop me please!

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2020-10-02

Given that it’s Nelson’s birthday (#OnThisDay in 1758) and my feed is full of romantic portraits of Britain’s greatest naval hero, I thought I’d go with Gillray’s slightly more irreverent take. (Image: V&A Museum)

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2020-09-29

Last one we promise, 😂Rebecca Virag from Prints replied, One of Gillray's hand-coloured satires: Presages of the Millenium or Midas transmuting all into gold paper.. both here below; again very 💡sensitive..

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2020-09-16

« Un goinfre dans les horreurs de la digestion » (1792) œuvre réalisée par James Gillray

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2020-08-14

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

'Intimate couple relaxing in a cave' (18th c.) by Thomas Rowlandson. You can check out more of Rowlandson's entertaining erotica and his own hedonistic life by clicking this link now >>> https://t.co/bi0cj5i5TJ

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2020-07-01

'A ferocious old man holding a candlestick and a dagger is ...' (18th c.) by Thomas Rowlandson. You can check out the complete amusing image, description and more entertaining erotica by clicking this link now >>> https://t.co/bi0cj5i5TJ

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2020-06-30

We're nearly there, and just a few last themes. On the zoomorphic front entered a fine Dom Vulture, previous winner offered up a Shitehawk Dom, while entry possibly first fungal political caricature since Gillray (but probably not)

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2020-06-10

James Gillray’s “Sin, Death, and the Devil. vide Milton,” published June 9, 1792.

Lord Chancellor Edward Thurlow is cast as a heroically-built Satan, Prime Minister William Pitt as an emaciated Death, and Queen Charlotte as a grotesque Sin interposing between the two.

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2020-06-10

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