James Gillray
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish caricaturist and printmaker (1756-1815)
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James Gillray was an English 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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Very Slippy-Weather (1808)![L'Assemblée Nationale (1804) was called "the most talented caricature that has ever appeared", partly due to its "admirable likenesses". The Prince of Wales paid a large sum of money to have it suppressed and its plate destroyed.[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/L-Assemblee-Nationale-Gillray.jpeg/1280px-L-Assemblee-Nationale-Gillray.jpeg)
L'Assemblée Nationale (1804) was called "the most talented caricature that has ever appeared", partly due to its "admirable likenesses". The Prince of Wales paid a large sum of money to have it suppressed and its plate destroyed.[8]
The Reception of the Diplomatique (Macartney) and his Suite, at the Court of Pekin, published September 1792.
Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast (1787)
A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion (1792)
Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal (1792)
In Fashion before Ease; - or, - A good Constitution sacrificed for a Fantastick Form (1793), James Gillray caricatured Paine tightening the corset of Britannia and protruding from his coat pocket is a measuring tape inscribed "Rights of Man"Artists from United Kingdom 6
About this person
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United KingdomCategory
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Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1756 to 1815 · aged 58
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