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A woman is playing the harp as she and her male companion sing together, representing a man and a woman in love. Etching by James Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: October 25th 1805Reference: 28520i- Pictures
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A guardian angel is carrying a child up into the sky to an altar dedicated to a parody of the Virgin. Etching by James Gillray, 1805.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: April 22d. 1805Reference: 36279i- Pictures
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Kelsey's shop in St James's London, where fruit, jellies and sweets are served; a man and a boy are enjoying its wares. as another stands by the door. Process print after James Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 31717i- Pictures
The "Ministry of all the Talents", personified by Charles James Fox, promising to convey John Bull towards the promised land, but really to hell. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1806.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: Feb.y 8th 1806Reference: 533358i- Pictures
A pyramidal bas relief monument to Lady Cecilia Johnston, seated on a latrine-like stool; expressing her position in fashionable society as an elderly coquette. Etching by James Gillray, 1791.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 19 September 1791Reference: 12088i- Pictures
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The maid bringing in the breakfast finds the Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert in a dishevelled state on the morning after their marriage. Wood engraving after "Plenipo Georgy" (James Gillray?).
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1788Reference: 28436i- Pictures
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A woman carrying a chair sweeps away from a young man who has approached her, indicating her refusal to dance with him; another young woman is sitting on a chair behind him. Etching by James Gillray, 1804, after B. North.
North, Brownlow, 1778-1829.Date: November 20th 1804Reference: 32801i- Digital Images
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A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800.
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A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London.
James Gillray- Digital Images
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A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
James Gillray- Digital Images
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Coloured etching: 'Comfort to the corns'; J. Gillray
James Gillray- Pictures
A bull snorts angrily as it tosses a Spaniard in the air and is restrained by three men pulling its tail behind, a native American and a well-dressed French gentleman cower in fright to the right and a Dutchman sitting on a barrel of gin and smoking a pipe looks on in amusement. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1780.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: Jan 4 1780Reference: 585026i- Pictures
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John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, is following a young woman who is pushing a barrow of carrots through the West End of London. Process print after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 35893i- Pictures
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The coming-on of the monsoons;-or-the retreat from Seringapatam.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1830Reference: 585497i- Pictures
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A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.
V. P.Date: 25 January 1782Reference: 10975i- Pictures
A huntsman accidentally rides into his own pack of hounds. Colour line block after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1890Reference: 41733i- Pictures
The Revolutionary General Hoche, playing the guillotine as a stringed instrument, ascends into heaven where the atrocities of the French Revolution greet his arrival. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585511i- Pictures
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A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: May 23 1802Reference: 1i- Pictures
Insects with the heads of humans assail a bee hive as ministerial bees emerge to defend the Treasury bench. Line block after J. Gillray, 1873.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1873Reference: 603166i- Pictures
William Pitt the younger as a very thin caricatured bank clerk stands behind a counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull, while Charles James Fox and Sheridan attempt to stop Bull accepting the money. Line block after J. Gillray, 1873.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1873Reference: 603157i- Pictures
King George III and Queen Charlotte stand before the open gate of the Treasury from which William Pitt the younger has just wheeled a wheelbarrow laden with money bags one of which he hands to the King. Line block after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1873Reference: 603163i- Books
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The electrical eel: or, gymnotus electricus. Inscrib'd to the Honourable Members of the R***l S*****y / by Adam Strong, Naturalist [i.e. J. Perry].
Perry, James, 1756-1821.Date: 1777- Pictures
Two fat courtesans sit side by side on a settee with the Duke of Norfolk sitting between them holding their hands as he holds a wine glass in one hand while gazing at one of them. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585503i- Pictures
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James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.
Paye, Richard Morton, 1750-1821.Date: March 1793Reference: 667946i- Mixed materials
Excerpt from Lavater's essays on physiognomy. Engravings and letterpress, 1791.
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.Date: December 1791