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James Gillray

288 works

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Hand-colored caricature of a crowded music room with a sleeping man, a flute player, a harpsichord, and a child with a horn.

A Little Music

published February 26, 1810

Hand-colored caricature of men singing and drinking wine around a table in a tavern, with a dog and scattered bottles.

Anacreontick's in Full Song

published December 1, 1801

Hand-colored etching of a stout man asleep in a chair, head tilted back, beside a table with a newspaper and jug.

Fast Asleep

published November 1, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of a startled stout man in a wig and blue coat, arms raised, beside a fireplace and two cats.

Wide Awake

published November 1, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of a stout woman and a man in blue coat with striped stockings dancing, the man raising a tankard.

My Poll and my Partner Joe

published April 18, 1796

Hand-colored caricature of a carriage stopped at a thatched tavern, with a woman approaching a horse with a poker.

Posting in Ireland

published April 8, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of a coach overturning on a steep Scottish mountain road, with sheep, a dog, and a seated shepherd.

Posting in Scotland

published May 25, 1805

Hand-colored print of a man in red uniform on a brown horse with a spotted saddle cloth, raising a riding crop before tents.

A Portrait

published March 17, 1809

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a charioteer with a lion and white horse rises through clouds beneath a sun labeled

Light Expelling Darkness,-Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,-or-The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the…

published April 30, 1795

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray showing a secret committee at a table and a crowd gazing at four violent scenes.

Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency, with its Effect Upon Patriotic Feelings

published April 15, 1799

Hand-colored satirical print of a boat labeled The Constitution sailing between a rock and a whirlpool, with struggling men i

Britannia Between Scylla and Charybdis

published April 8, 1793

Hand-coloured satirical print of a chaotic street with revolutionary soldiers, a bull, a guillotine, and a Liberty cap.

Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion

published October 20, 1796

Hand-colored caricature of human-faced pigs plunging off a cliff into the sea while a farmer with a pitchfork shouts at them.

The Pigs Possessed

published April 18, 1807

Hand-colored four-panel caricature of John Bull's progress from comfort to war, ruin and a maimed veteran's return.

John Bulls Progress

published June 3, 1793

Hand-coloured satirical etching in four panels showing petitioners, a throne, crowds in top hats and cattle, by James Gillray

Patriotic Petitions on the Convention

published October, 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a crowded parliament chamber with red-capped figures, scales, money bags and a crown.

Patriotic Regeneration, -viz. - Parliament Reform'd, a la Françoise...

published March 2, 1795

Hand-colored print of a seated Chinese emperor receiving a kneeling European diplomat amid courtiers and gifts in an ornate h

Reception of the Diplomatique & his Suite, at the Court of Pekin

published September 14, 1792

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a kilted man fires a cannon from a rock while a bear rides a boat in stormy seas.

Bruin in his Boat

published June 20, 1806

Hand-colored etching of courtiers and fashionably dressed women gathered in an ornate room beside an open door, by James Gill

The Bridal Night

published May 18, 1797

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray: a robed figure drops a mantle to kneeling men on an altar, facing a winged dark spi

Disciples Catching the Mantle

published June 25, 1808

Hand-coloured satirical print of women dressing soldiers in yellow flannel uniforms in a stone room, with swords and helmets

Flannel Armour; Female Patriotism

published November 18, 1793

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray showing sans-culottes figures feeding bread to Europe, with labeled regions and John

Sans-culottes

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Hand-coloured caricature of a French flotilla on a stormy sea, with men straining at a capstan on the right shore.

Spotprent op de Franse plannen voor een invasie van Engeland, 1798

1798

Hand-colored caricature of cormorants with human faces fishing in a stream of new taxes pouring from a cliff face.

A Great Stream from a Pretty Fountain

published May 9, 1806

Hand-colored print of a reclining winged Cupid beside a gold money sack, with potted orange trees and women figures in clouds

De Orangerie: De Hollandse Cupido, uitrustend van de vermoeienissen van het planten

1796

Etched caricature of a coiled rattlesnake over a mountain landscape, with tent encampments in its coils, by James Gillray, 17

The American Rattle Snake

April 12, 1782

Etching of three caricatured figures eating from a bowl labeled John Bull's Blood at a feast, under a stone archway.

Monstrous Craws at a New Coalition Feast

May 29, 1787

Hand-colored caricature of Alecto and a train of figures, with a recruiting sergeant drumming and enlisting John Bull, by Jam

Alecto and Her Train, at the Gate of Pandaemonium:-or-The Recruiting Sarjeant Enlisting John Bull, Into the Revolutio…

July 4, 1791

Hand-colored caricature of a thin man beside a huge round woman balanced on a wheeled wooden plane, 1792.

A Sphere, Projecting Against a Plane

January 3, 1792

Hand-colored print of a figure seen from behind in a red coat, powdered wig and buckled shoes on a stone pedestal.

From Sir William Hamilton's Collection

May 8, 1801

Hand-colored caricature by James Gillray, 1802, showing a seated ruler, a corpulent figure in yellow, and bowing courtiers.

Introduction of Citizen Volpone & His Suite, at Paris.-Vide, The Moniteur, & Cobbetts Letters

November 15, 1802

Hand-colored caricature of a mounted officer leading chained, ragged volunteers, with some riding a donkey and a cart.

French Volunteers Marching to the Conquest of Great Britain

October 25, 1803