addressing his 18th century predecessor James Gillray. Born in 1756, Gillray set the template for the modern political cartoon. He combined the old tradition of the political print with the more ...

If world politics today is changing worlds, it was no less so in late 18th century Britain; there was the American War of Independence, the French Revolution and the changing millennium.

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Tim Clayton’s book is a magisterial study of a great popular artist: a full-scale interpretation of James Gillray’s output of satirical prints, and a biography that warrants comparison with the best ...

James Gillray's caricature ... along with more than 200 other Gillray prints . The prints are appealing because they are so bold, says Robert Kennan, who is organising the sale at Phillips ...

The English artist James Gillray was a leading force in the Golden Age of British caricature, completing at least 1,000 prints between 1779 and 1811. As a young student in London’s Royal Academy, at ...

The CVA is showing them in an exhibit titled “Under the Guillotine: James Gillray and Contemporary ... lucky for the artist, tolerated. Even today Gillray couldn’t produce the sort of things ...

But others should be interested too in James Gillray, and not just because one of England's finest caricaturists of the late 18th century had his studio at 27 St James's Street, part of our ...

In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte, having seized power in France, appealed to George III for an end to the eight years of war that had followed the French Revolution. Britain’s foreign secretary, Lord ...

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