Artist: James Gillray (1757 - 1815)
Nationality: British
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Media: Illustration
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Biography:
English Caricaturist, James Gillray trained as a commercial engraver before studying at the Royal Academy Schools. He gained a reputation as a leading caricaturist in Britain, winning him a profitable job with print seller, Hannah Humphrey. He worked and lived above the workshop and was employed there exclusively from 1790 on. His favored targets were political figures such as George III and Napoleon. Gillray was also an alcoholic who suffered from insanity from 1810 to his death five years later.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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James Gillray, The Gout, 1799
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James Gillray, The Union Club, 1801
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James Gillray, The Fall of Icarus, 1807
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James Gillray, The King of Brobdingnag, and Gulliver, 1803
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James Gillray, The Union Club, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, New Morality, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, Pacific Overtures, or a Flight from St. Cloud"s, 1806
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James Gillray, Barbers Shop in Assize Time, 1811
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James Gillray, Temperance Enjoying A Frugal Meal, 1792
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James Gillray, Pitt and Bonaparte, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, The Farmer"s Toast, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, Catholic Emancipation, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, Two Pair of Portraits, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, Colonel Gardiner ? last interview, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, The Zenith of French Glory-The Pinnacle of Liberty, 1793
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James Gillray, The Reception of the Diplomatique and his Suite, at the Court of Pekin, 1792
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James Gillray, Meeting of the Monied Interest, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, Improvements in Weights and Measures, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, The Worksä (London: Henry G. Bohn, [1819?]), 1819
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James Gillray, Thirty Years Have I Lived in the Parish of Covent Garden..., 1797
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James Gillray, first plate in the book, The Worksä (London: Henry G. Bohn, [1819?]), 1819
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
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James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Gillray, One of 43 loose prints, etchings, engravings, stipple, etc., some coloured, 18th - 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (3)
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Tate Liverpool: Mark Wallinger: Credo
Wallinger came to prominence in Britain in the 1980s and has since earned an international reputation. He was nominated for the 1995 Turner Prize and recently completed a new piece of work, Ecce Homo, for Trafalgar Square, ...
Tate Britian: James Gillray: The Art of Caricature
This exhibition sets out to re-examine Gillrays art, through a selection of the finest impressions of his caricatures, almost all of which are examples of the hand-colouring applied at the time they were produced, alongside a...
The British Museum: The Apocalypse
This exhibition, together with the associated publication, will examine the pictorial tradition it engendered as represented principally by illuminated ma...

Further Artwork and Information:

James Gillray
James Gillray - Caricatures from the Gifford Collection, Bucknell University
James Gillray Online
James Gillray cartoons: political caricatures
James Gillray -- Encyclopædia Britannica
Introduction to James Gillray
Sweeney Art Gallery | Collection | James Gillray
Gillray, James
Tate Britain | Current Exhibitions
Graphic Satire - James Gillray

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