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Prints and Drawings 474
Rare Books and Manuscripts 5
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Gillray, James, 1756–1815 483

Humphrey, Hannah, ca. 1745–1818 54
Sneyd, John Rev., 1763–1835 8
Unknown artist 7
North, Brownlow, 1778–1829 5
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811 4
Fores, S. W., 1761–1838 3
Aitken, James, active 1788–1801 2
Pether, Thomas, active 1772–1782 2
Williams, Charles, active 1796–1830 2
Woodward, George Moutard, ca. 1760–1809 2
Bentley, Richard, 1794–1871 1
Berwin, S 1
Brown, Joseph, 19th century 1
Humphrey, William, 1745–1810 1
Macklin, Thomas, active 1779–1793 1
McLean, Thomas, 1788–1875 1
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 1
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 1
Wright, John, ca. 1745–1820 1

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Accessible in the Study Room 479
Accessible in the Reference Library 4

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Free to Use 472
Under Certain Circumstances 11

Image Available

available 371
unavailable 112

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Classification

Prints 467
Books 9
Drawings & Watercolors 7

Collective Title

The Rake's-Progress at the University 5
Progress of the Toilet 1
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 1

Period

18th century 365
19th century 106
18th century-19th century 5
20th century 4

Materials & Techniques

etching (printing process) 123
watercolor 73
hand coloring 48
wove paper 26
aquatint 18
colored ink 15
laid paper 7
black ink 5
graphite 5
stipple engraving 5
pen 3
black chalk 1
brown ink 1
engraving (printing process) 1
ink 1
line engraving 1
mezzotint 1
watercolors 1

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intaglio print 204
drawing 7
etching 3
watercolor 2
aquatint 1
caricature 1
satires (visual works) 1

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genre subject 13
historical subject 10
literary theme 5
figure study 4
military art 4
portrait 2
religious and mythological subject 2
animal art 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

satire 220
caricature 219
caricatures 203
humor 16
men 16
parody 14
genre subject 8
hats 8
historical subject 8
political 8
breeches 7
fire 7
cravats 6
literary theme 6
swords 6
women 6
academic robes 5
boots 5
costume 5
food 5
gesturing 5
mortar boards 5
politicians 5
students 5
tassels 5
university 5
youth 5
angry 4
cane 4
death 4

Subject Period

19th century 2

Associated Places

England 4
United Kingdom 4
Greater London 3
London 3
Europe 2
Great Britain 2
Asia 1
Bharat 1
City of Westminster 1
Covent Garden 1
France 1
Greenwich 1
India 1
Somerset House 1
Tottenham 1
Westminster Abbey 1

Associated People

Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 28
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 24
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician 17
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 12
Burdett, Sir Francis, fifth baronet (1770–1844), politician 11
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer 11
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 9
Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759–1834), politician 7
Howard, Charles (1746–1815), eleventh Duke of Norfolk, politician 7
Tierney, George (1761–1830), British politician 7
Cobbett, William (1763–1835), political writer and farmer 6
George IV (1762–1830), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 6
Grenville, George Nugent-Temple-, first marquess of Buckingham (1753–1813), British politician 6
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), politician/statesman 6
Jenkinson, Robert Banks, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), prime minister 6
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 6
Tooke, John Horne [formerly John Horne] (1736–1812), radical and philologist 6
Addington, Henry, first Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844), prime minister 5
Burke, Edmund (1729/30–1797), politician and author 5
Canning, George (1770–1827), British prime minister and parodist 5
Smith-Stanley, Edward (1752–1834), 12th Earl of Derby 5
Taylor, Right Hon Michael Angelo (1757–1834), English politician and member of Parliament 5
Whitbread, Samuel II (1764–1815), British politician 5
Erskine, Thomas, first Baron Erskine (1750–1823), British politician 4
Grenville, Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-, first duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839), British politician 4
Hastings, Francis Rawdon, first marquess of Hastings and second earl of Moira (1754–1826), army officer and politician 4
Jervis, John, First Earl of St Vincent (1735–1823), British naval officer 4
Nicholls, John (ca. 1745–1832), English lawyer and politician 4
Stewart, Robert, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess Londonderry (1759–1822), Chief Secretary for Ireland 4
Abbot, Charles (1757–1829), first Baron Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons (1802–1817) 3

Exhibition History

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) 5
The Body Politic: The Evolution of Political Satire in Print (Yale University Art Gallery, 2000-09-01 - 2000-11-26) 4
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 3
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 2
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19) 2
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28) 2
Cost of Revolution: the Life and Death of an Irish Soldier (Museum of the American Revolution, 2019-09-26 - 2020-02-17) 2
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 2
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 2
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1995-04-04 - 1995-07-16) 2
Romantics & Revolutionaries : Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-03-30) 2
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 2
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 1
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) 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
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 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
Seriously Funny: Caricature through the Centuries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2018-09-14 - 2019-01-27) 1
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) 1
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 1
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 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

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 466
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 4
22616334680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22749725640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22749729560008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22757477160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara and Max Wilk, Yale BA 1941 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Robert W. Carle 1

Language

English 7
Italian 1

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Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

No Flower that Blows, Is Like this Rose

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

United Irishmen in Training

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

Patern-Staff - Weymouth

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Dash Up St. James's Street

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Un Diplomatique, Settl'ing Affairs at Stevens's (Baron Haslang, Bavarian... [Read more]

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Pylades & Orestes (Stadtholder & His Secretary)

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Tree of Liberty, - With The Devil Tempting John Bull (Fox)

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

Le Coup de Maitre

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Republican - Hercules Defending His Country

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Salute, - Vide, The Parade

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

God Save the King. - In a Bumper. Or - An Evening Scene Three Times a Week at... [Read more]

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Table's Turn'd. Billy, in the Devil's Claws. - Billy, Sending the Devil... [Read more]

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

John Bull Ground Down

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Death of the Great Wolf

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Genius of France Triumphant - or - Britannia Petitioning for Peace - Vide. The... [Read more]

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

French - Telegraph Making Signals in the Dark

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Patriotic Regeneration, - Viz - Parliament Refoun'd a la Francoise, - that... [Read more]

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Nightly Visitors, at St. Ann's Hill; In Glided Edward's Pale-Eye'd Ghost, and... [Read more]

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

Corpor(e)al (!) Stamina

1801
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Lover's Dream

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Prophet of the Hebrews, - The Prince of Peace, Conducting the Jews to the... [Read more]

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Leaving off Powder, - or - a Frugal Family Saving the Guinea

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Light Expelling Darkness, - Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,... [Read more]

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Presages of the Millenium

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Slice of Glo'ster Cheese

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Copenhagen House

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Councellor Ego. - i.e.: - Little I, Myself, I

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

Improvement in Weights and Measures. - or - "Sir John Seeclear Discovering... [Read more]

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

Sophia, Honour, and the Chambermaid

1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Gillray, James, 1756–1815

A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully... [Read more]

[1807]
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Royal Academy

1786
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

A Coalition of Parties, Give Justice Her Claims

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

The Minister In - The Minister Out

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

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

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

The Prince at Grass --- The Prince in Clover

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Coming-On, of the Monsoons; or - The Retreat from Seringapatam

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

Evacuation Before Resignation

1782
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
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 James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Sick Prince

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Kick at the Broad-Bottoms! - i.e.- Emancipation of "All the Talents"

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Valley of the Shadow of Death

1808
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

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

Freedom (France) - Slavery (Britain)

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

Betty Canning (Gunning) Revived, or a Peep at the Conjuration of Mary... [Read more]

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

Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow,... [Read more]

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

Taming of the Shrew. Katharine and Petruchio - The Modern Quixotte, or,... [Read more]

1791
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Filial Piety

1788
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Caneing in Conduit Street - Dedicated to the Flag Officers of the... [Read more]

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

The Hustings-Vox Populi, - "We'll Have a Mug! - A Mug! - A Mug! / Mayor of... [Read more]

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

Meeting of - Unfortunate Citoyens. " Dismay of Two Disgraced Patriots"

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

Parliamentary-Reform, - or - Opposition-Rats, Leaving the House... [Read more]

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

St. George's Volunteers Charging Down Bond Street, After Clearing the... [Read more]

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

United Irishmen Upon Duty

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

Shrine at St. Ann's Hill

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

The Tree of Liberty

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Real Cause of the Present High-Price of Provisions or A View on the Sea Coast of... [Read more]

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Portrait of an Irish Chief; Drawn from Life at Wexford

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

-Gentle Manners, with Affections Mild, in Wit a Man, Simplicity a Child

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

Loyal Souls; - or - A Peep into the Mess-Room, at St. James's

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

We Explain the Rights of Man to de Noblesse -- Scene from the House of Lords
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Sketch of the Interior of St. Stephens as it now Stands (Pitt... [Read more]

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

A Morning Ride

1804
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Brown, 19th century

James Gillray

1848
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Hounds in Finding

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

Cockney-Sportsmen Re-charging

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

The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 3 - "The Master's Wig the guilty wight... [Read more]

1806
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Miss, I Have a Monstrous Crow to Pluck with You!

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Vices overlook'd in the New Proclamation

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Louis XVI Taking Leave of His Wife and Family

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Alecto and Her Train, at the Gate of Pandeomonium; - or - The Recruiting... [Read more]

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

The Hopes of the Party, Prior to July 14th, ---"From Such Wicked Crown and... [Read more]

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

The Soldier's Return; - or - Rare News for Old England - See the Conquering Hero Comes

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

Ancient Music

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Design for the New Gallery of Busts and Pictures

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Anti-Sacharrites, - or - John Bull and His Family Leaving off the Use of Sugar

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

French Democrats Surprizing the Royal-Runaways

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

The Bottomless-Pitt

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Malagrida, Driving Post
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Duet. - Turn Fair Clora, Turn Ah Cruel, Turn Again

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Wha Wants Me?

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Finishing Touch

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

La Derniere Resource; - or - Van-Buchells

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

An Excrescence; - Afungus; - Alias - A Toadstool Upon a Dung-Hill

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

A Sphere, Projecting against a Plane ---

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Bridal-Night

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The National Assembly Petrified / The National Assembly Revivified

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Sleep-Walker

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Retribution; - Tarring and Feathering; - or - The Patriots Revenge,... [Read more]

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

John Bull at His Studies. Attended by His Guardian Angell

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

The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 1 - "Ah me! what perils doth that... [Read more]

1806
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 2 - "Ah me! that thou the... [Read more]

1806
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 4 - "Expulsion waits that Son of... [Read more]

1806
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 5 - "Convened for wearing Gaiters - sad... [Read more]

1806
Accessible in the Study Room
James Gillray, 1756–1815

Hounds in Full-Cry

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Turner, 1774–1857

James Gillray

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique

1801

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