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A game of "Questions and Commands" depicted by James Gillray, 1788. The game has existed for hundreds of years, with at least one variant, "questions and commands", being attested as early as 1712: A Christmas game, in which the commander bids their subjects to answer a question which is asked. If the subject refuses or fails to satisfy the ...
Uncorking Old Sherry is an 1805 satirical cartoon by the English caricaturist James Gillray. The title is a play on the drink sherry and the nickname of the playwright , theatre manager and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan .
The Spanish Bullfight is an 1808 satirical cartoon by the British caricaturist James Gillray which presents the ongoing Napoleonic Wars as a bullfight. [1] It was inspired by the Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid and other uprisings across Spain against French occupation which triggered the Peninsular War. Spain, previously an enemy of Britain ...
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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Works by the British caricaturist James Gillray (1756–1815) Pages in category "Works by James Gillray" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
James Gillray's satirical image about the scandal. In 1796, the artist Benjamin West, who was then president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, purchased an old manuscript from Jemima and Thomas Provis that they claimed held the details of the materials and techniques that had been used by painters such as Titian , Tintoretto , and Veronese .
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