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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.
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 ...
The work was reportedly originally dashed off by Gillray on a scrap of paper in a few hours. [2] Pitt describes the opposition as like a newly opened bottle which "bursts all at once, into an explosion of froth and air". [3] Amused by it, Sheridan himself ordered six copies, despite being the butt of the image's humour. [4]
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.
In James Gillray's cartoon, Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis (3 June 1793), [9] "William Pitt helms the ship Constitution, containing an alarmed Britannia, between the rock of democracy (with the liberty cap on its summit) and the whirlpool of arbitrary power (in the shape of an inverted crown), to the distant haven of liberty". [10]
British Tars Towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour is an 1807 cartoon by the British caricaturist James Gillray.Like much of his work the image portrays a contemporary event, the bombardment of Copenhagen and seizure of the Danish fleet by the Royal Navy to prevent it from falling into the hands of the French Empire with which Britain was at war.
Buller was born at Downes House in the parish of Crediton in Devon, a younger son of James Buller (1717–1765), of Downes and of King's Nympton Park, both in Devon and of Morval in Cornwall, a Member of Parliament for Cornwall, by his second wife Lady Jane Bathurst, daughter of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst.
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.