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Also known as James Gilray, Gillay, Gillray

British caricaturist and printmaker (1756-1815)

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Born
1757
Died
1815
Works
12

Top works

  • The arms of France
  • Buonaparte hearing of Nelson's victory, swears by his sword, to extirpate the English from off the earth ...
  • "Prætor-urbanus;" -
  • The Spanish-bull-fight, - or - the Corsican-matador in danger
  • The French-consular-triumverate[!], settling the new constitution, with a peep at the constitutional-pigeon-holes of the Abbe Seiyes - in the back ground

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Born
( 1756-08-13 ) 13 August 1756 , Chelsea , Middlesex , Great Britain
Died
1 June 1815 (1815-06-01) (aged 58), St James's , City and Liberty of Westminster , United Kingdom
Occupations
Caricaturist printmaker

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Works in European collections

8 objects attributed to James Gillray, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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James Gillray (13 August 1756 – 1 June 1815) was an English caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Many of his works are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Gillray has been called "the father of the political cartoon", with his works satirizing George III, Napoleon, prime ministers and generals. Regarded as one of the two most influential cartoonists, the other being William Hogarth, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, keen sense of the ludicrous, and beauty of execution, at once gave him the first place among caricaturists.

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