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Original - 18th-century anti-vaccination quackery, as satirised by James Gillray. His illustration pokes fun of one of the claims made against the cow pox innoculation: That it would cause cow-like appendages to grow out of the body. Reason I don't believe we have any of James Gillray's work as FP. Without wanting to understate Hogarth's ...
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.
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Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London, explores the lives of notable Georgian satirists, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank. It was described as "splendid and wonderfully readable" by The Guardian. Her second book, Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives, was an instant Number 1 Times bestseller.
Moseley expressed his views before Parliament during investigations into the practice in 1802 and 1808. His outlandish theories were the basis for a satirical cartoon by James Gillray called “The Cow Pock” which portrayed small cows bursting out of human bodies. [4] [3] Moseley died in Southend, a favorite summer vacation spot, in 1819 ...
London Corresponding Society, Alarm'd (1798), satirical print by James Gillray, with the right-hand figure reading a list of "State Arrests", (O'Connor, Binns, Evans, O'Coigley) In April 1798 Evans was arrested, in a roundup of the United Englishmen. He was not put on trial, but was in detention for three years. [1]
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 ...