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.jpg "Le Baiser a la Wirtembourg, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1797 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Destruction of the French Colossus by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion, July 2, 1792 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-297654).jpg "Tales of Wonder, pub. H. Humphrey, London, 1802 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Gillray Cartoon on Vaccination Against Smallpox Using Cowpox Serum by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Zenith of French Glory, - the Pinnacle of Liberty, February 12, 1793 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Cartoon about Napoleon, Paul Barras, Josephine and Mademoiselle de Fontenay, called ausii Teresa (Theresa or Terezia) Cabarrus, called Madame Tallien (Talien) or these ladies dance naked for Barras, under the stealth eye of Napoleon [Josephine being, at th by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Grand Coronation Procession of Napoleon, the 1st Emperor of France, from the Church of Notre-Dame, 2nd December 1804, published 1805 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Siege of the Column of Pompey, Science in the Pillory by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Napoleon and King George III as Gulliver and the King of Brobdingnag by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Gout by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Zenith of French Glory; The Pinnacle of Liberty by James Gillray")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-41804).jpg "The Plum Pudding in Danger, 1805 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Black-Dick Turned Taylor by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Siege de la Colonne de Pompee, or Science in the Pillory, published by H. Humphrey in 1799 by James Gillray")
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 Taking Leave of his Wife and Family 1793 - (MeisterDrucke-90947).jpg "Louis XVI Taking Leave of his Wife and Family, 1793 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "French Liberty - British Slavery by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Sans-culottes Feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty, 1793 (Sans-culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty) by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Spanish Bull Fight or the Corsican Matador in Danger, pub. 1805 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-163556).jpg "A Decent Story, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1795 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Following the Fashion: St. James")
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.jpg "The Valley of the Shadow of Death by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Titianus Redivivus or the Seven Wise Men Consulting the New Venetian Oracle, a Scene in Academic Grove No.1 by James Gillray")
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 poisoning the sick at Jaffa 1799 - (MeisterDrucke-215901).jpg "Napoleon Bonaparte poisoning the sick at Jaffa by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Tree of Liberty with the Devil Tempting John Bull by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Cow Pock or the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation by James Gillray")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-39661).jpg "Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt: Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles, 1798 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Reception of the Diplomatique & his Suite, at the Court of Pekin, 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Tiddy-Doll the great French Gingerbread-Baker, drawing out a new Batch of Kings, 1806 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Britannia Between Scylla and Charybdis, or The Vessel of Constitution Steered Clear of the Rock of Democracy and the Whirlpool of Arbitrary Power, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1793 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "French Liberty. British Slavery by James Gillray")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-88562).jpg "Reception of the Diplomatique and his Suite at the Court of Pekin by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Modern Grace by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Plum Pudding in Danger, or State Epicures taking un Petit Souper by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Spanish Bull Fight, or The Corsican Matador in Danger, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1808 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Napoleon Baking a New Batch of Kings, 1806 by James Gillray")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-218157).jpg "The Gout by James Gillray")
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.jpg "English satire on science: new discoveries in pneumatic materials by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-391925).jpg "A Masonic Anecdote, pub. 1786 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Balance of Power or The Posterity of the Immortal Chatham, turns Posture Master by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Caught During Their Flight, 1791 (French Democrats Surprising the Royal Runaways) by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Mr. Thomas Ogle, the Notorious Swindler, published by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Maniac Ravings, or Little Boney in a Strong Fit by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Farmer Giles and his Wife showing off their daughter Betty to their neighbours on her return from school, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1809 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Allied Powers Un-Booting Egalite by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Light Expelling Darkness, Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations, or The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Plumb-Pudding in Danger, or State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper, February 26, 1805 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-392764).jpg "Wouski, pub. 1788 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Wounded Lion by James Gillray")
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 (see also 152999) - (MeisterDrucke-38752).jpg "The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Punch Cures the Gout, the Colic, and the Tisick, 1799 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-269719).jpg "The Introduction by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Vulture of the Constitution, Published by Hannah Humphrey in 1789 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "French Liberty. British Slavery, December 21, 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The American Rattle Snake, 1782 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Anti-Saccharites, or John Bull and his Family leaving off the use of Sugar, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Balance of Power, or The Posterity of the Immortal Chatham turned")
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.jpg "Fashionable Contrasts, or The Duchess")
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.jpg "The Lover")
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.jpg "The Cow Pock or Wonderful Effects of the New Innoculation! Vide the publications of the anti-vaccine society, pub by H. Humphreys by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Right Honourable, alias a Sans-Culotte, published by J. Fores in 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast, pub. 1787 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Moment of Victory! published by Hannah Humphrey in 1805 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Lady Godina")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-73037).jpg "Presages of the Millennium, published 1795 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Former Profession by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Peep into the Cave of Jacobinism (published by Hannah Humphrey) by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Sans-Culottes Feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty, published by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-391135).jpg "Waltzer au Mouchoir by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Tiddy-Doll, the great French Gingerbread-Baker, drawing a new Batch of Kings. - his Man Hopping Talley, mixing up the Dough by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Vestal of -93 trying on the Cestus of Venus, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1793 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Titianus Redivivus or the Seven Wise Men consulting the new Venetian Oracle, a scene in")
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.jpg "The French Consular Triumvirate by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Great South Sea Caterpillar, transformed into a Bath Butterfly, pub. 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Reception of the Diplomatique & his Suite, at the Court of Pekin by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Cow Pock or the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation by James Gillray")
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_(see_191204_-_(MeisterDrucke-226030).jpg "Despair, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1802 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Westminster School or Dr Busby settling accounts with Master Billy and his Playmates, pub. 1785 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Apotheosis of the Corsican Phoenix, Published by Hannah Humphrey in 1808 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Pacific-Overtures, or A Flight from St. Clouds")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-177644).jpg "The Comforts of a Rumford Stove, pub. 1800 by James Gillray")
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 published by - (MeisterDrucke-254406).jpg "The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver (Plate 2d) by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Oh, That This Too, Too Solid Flesh Would Melt, Quotation from Hamlet, Act I. Scene I, Designed for the Shakespeare Gallery, Published by H. Humphrey, London, 1791 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Homer Singing His Verses to the Greeks by James Gillray")
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_pub_1788_(hand_coloured_eng_-_(MeisterDrucke-392495).jpg "Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (Black-Dick turned tailor) by James Gillray")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-174287).jpg "Very Slippy-Weather by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-392118).jpg "Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, pub. 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Maniac Ravings, or Little Boney in a Strong Fit, 1805 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "New Way to Pay the National-Debt Caricature, 1786 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Caricature of Pizarro Contemplating the Product of His New Peruvian Mine by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Democracy, or a Sketch by James Gillray")
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James Gillray was born in London in the Chelsey district. His father was Scottish and a war veteran. The young Gillray learned the profession of letter engraver and was later accepted as a student at the Royal Academy, working as an engraver time and again to finance his studies and livelihood. From a very young age he was interested in caricature, he especially loved William Hogarth, a very famous caricaturist of the 18th century who was his great idol. Very soon Gillray also began to publish caricatures himself, albeit at first under a fictitious name. Only little by little did drawings with his name appear. For many contemporaries and even today James Gillrey is considered "the father of political and social caricature". Of course, he also lived in a time of great political and social upheavals and also in a time when caricature as an important means of expression for depicting events and their interpretation became fashionable and suitable for the masses. Gillrey's intellect, his wit, his sometimes pitch-black humour and his gift for observation, but also his great talent for drawing made his works unique.
In his private life he was not so successful and happy. He suffered from arthritis or gout in his hands at a younger age, which caused him great pain, and his vision was also increasingly poor. Disabled in his work, he became melancholy and increasingly addicted to alcohol. James Gillray did not start a family either, but he probably lived with his publisher Hannah Humphrey for many years and thought about marrying her from time to time. At least contemporaries ascribe a relationship to the two and it is a fact that Hannah Humphrey took care of Gillray after he wanted to take his own life by jumping out of a window in 1811. He survived, but was repeatedly confronted with severe depressions and psychoses. In 1815 the artist died at the age of only 58 years. Among collectors the caricatures of James Gillray are still very popular. Key prints such as "Fashionable Contrasts" and "Light Expelling Darkness" have already fetched prices of 10,000 to 20,000 US dollars at auctions.
James Gillray was born in London in the Chelsey district. His father was Scottish and a war veteran. The young Gillray learned the profession of letter engraver and was later accepted as a student at the Royal Academy, working as an engraver time and again to finance his studies and livelihood. From a very young age he was interested in caricature, he especially loved William Hogarth, a very famous caricaturist of the 18th century who was his great idol. Very soon Gillray also began to publish caricatures himself, albeit at first under a fictitious name. Only little by little did drawings with his name appear. For many contemporaries and even today James Gillrey is considered "the father of political and social caricature". Of course, he also lived in a time of great political and social upheavals and also in a time when caricature as an important means of expression for depicting events and their interpretation became fashionable and suitable for the masses. Gillrey's intellect, his wit, his sometimes pitch-black humour and his gift for observation, but also his great talent for drawing made his works unique.
In his private life he was not so successful and happy. He suffered from arthritis or gout in his hands at a younger age, which caused him great pain, and his vision was also increasingly poor. Disabled in his work, he became melancholy and increasingly addicted to alcohol. James Gillray did not start a family either, but he probably lived with his publisher Hannah Humphrey for many years and thought about marrying her from time to time. At least contemporaries ascribe a relationship to the two and it is a fact that Hannah Humphrey took care of Gillray after he wanted to take his own life by jumping out of a window in 1811. He survived, but was repeatedly confronted with severe depressions and psychoses. In 1815 the artist died at the age of only 58 years. Among collectors the caricatures of James Gillray are still very popular. Key prints such as "Fashionable Contrasts" and "Light Expelling Darkness" have already fetched prices of 10,000 to 20,000 US dollars at auctions.
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.jpg "The Plum Pudding in danger or State Epicures taking un Petit Souper, pub. 1805 by James Gillray")
.jpg "The Grand Coronation Procession of Napoleon the 1st Emperor of France, from the Church of Notre-Dame by James Gillray")
.jpg "John Bull Taking a Luncheon, or British Cooks, cramming Old Grumble-Gizzard with Bonne-Chere, published by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-161499).jpg "Dido in Despair, published by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")