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Prints and Drawings 474
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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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Prints 467
Books 9
Drawings & Watercolors 7

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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

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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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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Lordly Elevation

1802
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Bouquet of the Last Century

1802
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Political Dreamings! - Visions of Peace! Prospective Horrors

1801
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

French-Taylor, Fitting John Bull - With a "Jean-de-Bry"

1800
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Standing - Dish at Boodle's: Vide a Deuced Good Cocoa - Tree Pun. - (Sir... [Read more]

1800
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Discarded Viceroy Silenced

1782
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Opposition Coaches

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Opposition Coaches

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (Shame on Him Who Evil Thinks)
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Westminster Hunt

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Westminster School, or Dr. Busby Settling Accounts with Master Billy and... [Read more]

1785
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Tom Tit Twittering on an Eagle's Back-side

1786
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Guy Vanx

1782
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Lord of the Vineyard

1783
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

There's More Ways Than One - Vide, Coalition Expedients

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Questions & Commands; or The Mistaken Bad Road to HE-R-F-RD: A Sunday Evenings... [Read more]

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Election-Troops, Bringing in Their Accounts, to the Pay-Table

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Dissolution, - or - The Alchymist Producing An Aetherial... [Read more]

1796
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Giant - Factotum Amusing Himself (Pitt)

1797
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Preliminaries of Peace! - or - John Bull, and His Little Friends "Marching to... [Read more]

1801
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Preparing for The Grand Attack - or - A Private Rehearsal of the Ci-Devant... [Read more]

1801
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Bear and His Leader. --"What tho' I am Obliged to Dance A Bear, A Man may be... [Read more]

1806
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Comfort's of a Bed of Roses; Vide Charley's Elucidation of Lord C(a)stl(e) R(ea)gh's... [Read more]

1806
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Pigs Possessed: - or - The Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into... [Read more]

ca. 1808
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Patriot's Deciding a Point of Honor! - or - An Exact Representation of the... [Read more]

1807
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The New Speaker (i.e. The Law Chick) Between the Hawks and Buzzards - Poor... [Read more]

1800
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Nursery, with, Britannia Reposing in Peace

1802
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Apotheosis of the Corsican Phoenix

1808
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention/ the Cockney Petition; The Westminster... [Read more]

1808
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

German - Nonchalence: - or - The Vexation of Little Boney

1803
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Apples and The Horse-Turds: - or - Bonaparte, among the Golden Pippins

1800
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Confederated- Coalitions; or, The Giant's Storming Heaven, With the Gods... [Read more]

1804
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Half Natural

1799
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Citizens Visiting the Bastille, - Vide. Democratic Charities. -

1799
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Pizarro, Contemplating (over) The Product of His Peruvian Mine

1799
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

True Reform of Parliament, i.e. - Patriots Lighting a Revolutionary Bonfire... [Read more]

1809
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Delicious Weather

1808
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

British Tars Towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour; The Broad Bottom Leviathan... [Read more]

1807
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Sketch of the Interior of St. Stephen's, as It Now Stands. -

1802
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Hope

1802
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Despair

1802
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Be gone Dull Care, I Prithee Begone From Me!

1801
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Forming a Line on the Parade

1801
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Captain Townshend

1800
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The French Consular Triumvicate Settling the New Constitution. With a Peep at the... [Read more]

1797
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Liliputian Substitutes, Equiping for Public Services

1801
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Welsh Tandem

1801
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

One of the Advantages of a Low Carriage

1801
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Going to Market

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Kettle Hooting the Porridge-Pot

1782
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Lubber's - Hole, - Alias - The Crack'd Jordan

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Devil to Pay; or Neptune Reposing after Fording the Jordan

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Good Shot, or Billy Ranger the Gamekeeper, in a Fine Sporting Country.... [Read more]

1792
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

John Bull Baited by the Dogs of Excise

1790
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Guy Vanx Discovered in his Attempt to Destroy the King and the House of Lords.... [Read more]

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Twas Nobody Saw the Lover's Leap and Let the Cat Out of the Bag

1786
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Out of Fits - or the Recovery to the Satisfaction of All Parties

1786
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Hudibrass and His ' Squire (Fox and Burke)

1784
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Britania's Assassination - or - The Republicans Amusement

1782
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Rodney Introducing De Grasse

1782
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Amsterdam in a Dam'd Predicament, - or - The Last Scene of the Republican Pantomine

1787
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Possibly James Gillray, 1756–1815

James Gillray
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Blood on Thunder Fording the Red Sea

1788
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Gillray, James, 1756–1815

Fashionable contrasts

[1966]
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Caricatures. London, 1782-1800

1782-1800
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Bologna Sausages, or Opposition Flux'd

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

King Henry The Fourth's Last Scene

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Prince Pitt

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Political Hydra

1788
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Vulture of the Constitution

1789
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Cooling the Brain - or - The Little Major, Shaving the Shaver

1789
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Rival Queens, or a Political Heat for Lege (Rege) and Grege

1789
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

An Angel Gliding on a Sunbeam Into Paradise. Down Thither, Prone in... [Read more]

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Birmingham Toast, as Given on the 14th of July By The Revolution Society

1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

The Magnanimous Minister Chastising Prussian Perfidy - Vide the "Morning... [Read more]

1806
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Military Sketch of a Gift Stick, or Poker Emblazoned. (A Portrait of General... [Read more]

1800
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

To Skiffy - Skipt on, With His Wonted Grace. Vide Birthday Ball

1800
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

Meeting of the Monied Interest: - Constitutional Opposition to e/y 10... [Read more]

1798
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James Gillray, 1756–1815

A Collection of Caricatures, Volume II

1799
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Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815

The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver

1804
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Gillray, James, 1756–1815

Works of James Gillray

1847
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Gillray, James, 1756–1815

La rigenerazione dell'Olanda

1799
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Gillray, James, 1756–1815

The works of James Gillray

1968

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