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James Gillray (13 August 1756 [1] [2] – 1 June 1815) was a British 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.
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey, hand-coloured etching, published 14 September 1792: Headline: NPG D12463; 'The reception of the diplomatique and his suite, at the Court of Pekin' by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey: Credit/Provider: National Portrait Gallery London: Source: National Portrait Gallery London: Short title
The Reception, a cartoon by James Gillray of the reception that he expected Lord Macartney to get from the Qianlong Emperor. Our Celestial Empire possesses all things in prolific abundance and lacks no product within its borders. There is therefore no need to import the manufactures of outside barbarians in exchange for our own produce.
James Gillray: Fashionable Contrasts; – or – the Duchess's little shoe yielding to the magnitude of the Duke's foot, originally published by Hannah Humphrey on 24 January 1792. The print shows the feet and ankles of the Duke and Duchess of York in an obviously copulatory position.
Lord Chancellor Thurlow In Sin, Death, and the Devil (1792), James Gillray caricatured the political battle between Pitt (Death) and Thurlow (Satan), with Queen Charlotte (Sin) in the middle, protecting Pitt. Thurlow then turned to politics, and in 1768 he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth as a Tory.
James Gillray's caricature The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder (1797) publicized the Anti-Jacobin.. The Anti-Jacobin, or, Weekly Examiner was an English newspaper founded by George Canning in 1797 and devoted to opposing the radicalism of the French Revolution.
James Gillray lodged with her for much of his working life, and she looked after him after his lapse into insanity around 1810 until his death in 1815. In Two-Penny Whist, [6] the character shown second from the left, an ageing lady with eyeglasses and a bonnet, is widely believed to be a depiction of Humphrey. She was known as Mrs Humphrey ...
The American Rattle Snake is a political cartoon drawn by James Gillray and published by William Richardson on April 12, 1782. One of Gillray's earliest prints, it depicts a rattlesnake, symbolizing America, coiled around some British units.