Gillray

Prior to July 14th by James Gillray is reproduced with permission from the Library of Congress. top of page

About This Volume 2006

The revolution features consistently in Gillray’s images, however disturbing, and there is a sense in which the virility of his regressive figures stands against the "women who are the Revolution," as feared by Burke.

'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006

Pitt "projecting" against the rotund Mrs. Hobart, illustrates the comparatively depoliticized humor of the corpulent body in Gillray.

'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006

Their Gillray is the schoolbook satirist, the man who drew Pitt and Napoleon carving up the plum pudding of the world and that dangerous revolutionary Charles James Fox with no trousers (sans-culottes?

Rude Britannia: British Comic Art 2010

There was no longer a vision -- such as Gillray had embodied in his caricatures -- of a guillotine in St. James's St.eet: or of a Committee of Public Safety formed by Fox, Paine, and Horne Tooke.

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

Sophie Thompson plays the avidly aspiring matriarch with a grotesque flair: with her elasticated vowels and pouncing grimace, she could have been sketched by Gillray.

She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012

Injustices have created common-interest groups since the French Revolution and "Demonstrations: Making Normative Orders" examines the dynamics, aesthetics and portrayal of social movements through works by Irina Botea, Jacques-Louis David, James Gillray, Sharon Hayes, Alexander Hoepfner, Henry Ritter and others.

What's On Around Europe 2012

Perkins advertised the rods heavily and was satirised for his pains by Gillray, who depicted him tractorising a wart on John

Index of People 2009

Groom has displayed them with objects owned by the royal family at Kew, including a silver gilt egg boiler given by the princesses to their father, dubbed Farmer George and famously a man of simple tastes, displayed by a cartoon by Gillray showing the king as Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal.

Royal wedding cartoons show William and Kate are lucky it's 2011 2011

A 1797 cartoon by James Gillray depicts the fate of Charlotte, the fifth of George III's daughters, shown being led to her bridal bed in a raucous procession around the waddling figure of her groom.

Royal wedding cartoons show William and Kate are lucky it's 2011 2011