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 ...

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 ...

James Gillray’s name appears in books on the history of prints, though not on the history of fine arts. Yet his pictures overflow in fine art technique and in learned allusions to great painting and ...

James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire ... outside Hannah Humphrey’s print shop, a frantic commotion of shoving and jostling. “The enthusiasm is indescribable,” a German visitor recorded.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To mark 200 years since the death of master caricaturist James Gillray ... to introduce less familiar ways of reading Gillray, by arranging prints in clusters themed around various types of ...

Forty images by the once-controversial James Gillray ... historic value and am pleased to now see the prints kept safe in a suitable home.' Gillray was famous for satirising the great and the ...

We all abhor injustice, from big issues that fire us up to protest in the streets, to leaving a sarcastic note for the person who used all the milk and didn't buy some more. His exhibition of around ...

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 ...