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Prints and Drawings 315

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Gillray, James, 1756–1815 203
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811 47
Williams, Charles, active 1796–1830 39
Unknown artist 15
Humphrey, Hannah, ca. 1745–1818 10
Ansell, Charles, ca.1752–active 1790 9
Fores, S. W., 1761–1838 6
Aitken, James, active 1788–1801 2
Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754–1828 1
Byron, Frederick George, 1764–1794 1
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 1
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1835 1
Holland, William, 1757–1815 1
Humphrey, George, ca. 1773–ca. 1831 1
Humphrey, William, 1745–1810 1
Pownall, B., active 1783 1
Sansom, Franciscus, active 1785–1799 1
Stitch, Tom, active 1790 1

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Accessible in the Study Room 315

Image Use

Free to Use 315

Image Available

available 314
unavailable 1

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Classification

Prints 315

Collective Title

Period

18th century 269
19th century 46

Materials & Techniques

etching (printing process) 39
hand coloring 35
watercolor 34
aquatint 8
wove paper 3
colored ink 2
engraving (printing process) 1
watercolors 1

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intaglio print 114

Genre

historical subject 2

Subject Terms

caricatures 315

caricature 315
satire 315
captains (military officers) 2
club (association) 2
dinner 2
feast 2
fire 2
food 2
historical subject 2
humor 2
meal 2
men 2
parody 2
Bible 1
French Revolution, 1789-1799 1
Members of Parliament 1
Paradise Lost (published 1667) by John Milton 1
actor 1
arrested 1
blowing 1
bottles 1
brothers 1
bubbles 1
cane 1
clouds 1
coins 1
costume 1
crown 1
dancer 1

Subject Period

Associated Places

Covent Garden 1
England 1
Europe 1
Greater London 1
London 1
United Kingdom 1

Associated People

Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 19
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 17
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer 9
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician 6
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 4
George IV (1762–1830), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 3
Howard, Charles (1746–1815), eleventh Duke of Norfolk, politician 3
Burke, Edmund (1729/30–1797), politician and author 2
Charlotte (1744–1818), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and queen of Hanover, consort of George III 2
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 2
Taylor, Right Hon Michael Angelo (1757–1834), English politician and member of Parliament 2
Tierney, George (1761–1830), British politician 2
Apollo 1
Bedford, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of (British aristocrat, 1765–1802) 1
Cooke, George Frederick (1756–1812), actor 1
Erskine, Thomas, first Baron Erskine (1750–1823), British politician 1
Fitzgerald, Lord Edward (1763 - 1798), military/naval 1
Fitzherbert, [née Smythe; other married name Weld] Maria Anne (1756–1837), unlawful wife of George IV by a marriage invalid under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 1
Frederick, Prince William Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834) 1
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 1
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), politician/statesman 1
Hastings, Francis Rawdon, first marquess of Hastings and second earl of Moira (1754–1826), army officer and politician 1
Howard, Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), politician and diplomat 1
Jane, Duchess of Gordon (née Maxwell) (1748/9 - 1812), academic/intellectual 1
John Bull, fictitious epitomist of Englishness and British imperialism 1
Jordan, Dorothy (1761–1816), actress 1
Kemble, John Philip (1757–1823), 1
Louis XVI (1754–1793), king of France 1
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France (1755–1793) 1
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), British naval officer 1

Exhibition History

Cost of Revolution: the Life and Death of an Irish Soldier (Museum of the American Revolution, 2019-09-26 - 2020-02-17) 2
The Body Politic: The Evolution of Political Satire in Print (Yale University Art Gallery, 2000-09-01 - 2000-11-26) 2
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 1
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 1
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16) 1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10) 1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26) 1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05) 1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13) 1
James Gillray - Prints by the Eighteenth Master of Caricature (The Hood Museum of Art, 1994-01-08 - 1994-03-13) 1
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) 1
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Clark Art Institute, 1996-03-02 - 1996-04-14) 1
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Davison Art Center, 1995-09-01 - 1995-10-28) 1
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1995-04-04 - 1995-07-16) 1
Romantics & Revolutionaries : Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-03-30) 1
Seriously Funny: Caricature through the Centuries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2018-09-14 - 2019-01-27) 1
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 1
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) 1
The World Turned Upside Down - Apocalyptic Imagery in England (Haggerty Museum of Art, 2017-10-05 - 2018-01-18) 1
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 1
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 1
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 313
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1

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James Gillray, 1756–1815

New Morality; - or - The Promis'd Installment of the High-Priest of the... [Read more]

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Buonaparte Leaving Egypt

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Gordon-Knot, - or - The Bonny - Duchess Hunting the Bedfordshire Bull

1797
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Balance of Power, - or - The Posterity of the Immortal Chatham, Turn'd... [Read more]

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Leadenhall Volunteer, Drest in his Shawl

1797
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Evidence to Character; - Being, a Portrait of a Traitor by His Friends and by... [Read more]

1798
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Man of Importance

1799
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Elegance - Democratique, - A Sketch Found Near High-Wycombe; -... [Read more]

1799
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Monster Broke Loose - or - A Peep into the Shakespeare - Gallery

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Hackney Meeting

1796
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Portrait ------------

1799
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

And The' - Tisick, - The Colic, Punch Cures The Gout

1799
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Pity The Sorrows of a Poor Old Man, Vide, Scene in Bloomsbury Square

1796
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The General of Patriotism, - or -The Bloomsbury Farmer, Planting Bedfordshire... [Read more]

1796
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Field Marshall Count Suwarrow-Rominskoy ---

1799
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Fashionable - Jockeyship

1796
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Grand-Signior Retiring

1796
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Democratic Leveling; - Alliance a la Francoise; - or - The Union of the Coronet... [Read more]

1796
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Hint to Modern Sculptors, as an Ornament to a Future Square ---

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Patience on a Monument

1791
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Prince of Wales

1802
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

John Bull & His Dog Faithful; - "Among The Faithless, Faithful Only Found"

1796
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Royal Whim, or the Crouch-a-la Mode: A New Dance to The Old Tune. Comus,... [Read more]

1792
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The - Battle Royal, or Who Wears the Breeches

1784
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Sun Setting in a Fog, With The Old Hanover Hack Descending

1783
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Natural Crop; - Alias - A Norfolk Dumpling

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Royal Academy

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

A New Administration, or - The State Quacks Administring

1783
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Bonus - Melior - Optimus, or the Devil's The Best of the Bunch

1783
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Balaam, - or - The Majesty of the People,- The Lord Open'd the Mouth of... [Read more]

1783
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Coalition of Parties, Give Justice Her Claims

1783
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

Scene Le Vrog House

1782
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

Evacuation Before Resignation

1782
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Minister In - The Minister Out

1782
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Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

Ornaments of Chelsea Hospital; or - A Peep Into the Last Century ---

1789
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Print made by unknown artist

H-st-gs ho, rare H-st-gs! What a Man Buys He May Sell

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Legacy

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Loves of the Fox and the Badger, - or The Coalition Wedding

1784
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Proteus ye 2d in Sev'ral Among his Many Publick Characters

1784
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Loves of the Fox and the Badger, - or The Coalition Wedding

1784
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Sick Prince

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A Section of a Magnificent & Superb Water Closet

ca. 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

Mason, The Duke's Confectioner Disposing of the Trinkets

1788
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Plan of Mud Island, off the Kingdom of Corsica

ca. 1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Restricted Regency

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

Hyde-Park; - Sunday, - or - Both Hemispheres of the World in a Sweat ---

1789
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Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

The (Coward), Comforted; - or - A Scene Immediately After the Duel ---

1789
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Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

John Bull, in a Quandary, Which Way Shall I Turn Me, How Shall I Decide?

1789
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Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811

General Fast

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811

General Complaint

1796

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