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Gillray, James
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Gillray, James (1756–1815). Caricaturist. Abandoning the discipline of reproductive engraving for pungently witty etching, and stimulated by the political satires of James Sayers but concealing his own views, Gillray played a key role in the evolution of pictorial journalism by his development of recognizable caricature and rapid response to events. Using brightly coloured, almost grotesque distortion of an individual's salient features, to conjure amusement or contempt, Gillray targeted the royal family, politicians, society figures, exquisites, and charlatans. Fashionable London both approved and feared. From 1791 he settled down to etch almost exclusively for the printseller Hannah Humphrey, lodging over her West End shop, and briefly in receipt of a Tory pension, but generally retaining his independence. Failing eyesight (probably stemming from his meticulous craftsmanship) and increasing insanity from 1810 hastened his decline.
A. S. Hargreaves
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A very diabolical satirist James Gillray is the father of political cartoonists. His scurrilous images are as hard-hitting now as they were 200 years ago, says Andrew Roberts
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/3/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...three to declare that James Gillray, the 18th-century...himself guyed in the St James's Street windows of Mrs Humphrey, Gillray's publisher, that...using a language Gillray would have recognised...exaggerations - Charles James Fox as a monstrous...
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Arts: Nothing succeeds like excess James Gillray's cartoons present a searing satire on 18th-century politics and society. But although their subject-matter is murky, gross and ludicrous, the results are visionary, says Tom Lubbock
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/12/2001; ; 700+ words
; James Gillray didn't lack high praise. Contemporary...And though it's hard to argue that Gillray was in any sense on the left - indeed...of guy. And we welcome a show such as James Gillray: The Art of Caricature at Tate Britain...
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BITING SATIRE James Gillray was the demon cartoonist who sank his fangs into the soft flesh of the 18th-century Establishment. What better time than during an election campaign to launch the largest-ever show of his work? John Walsh enters the curious world of the master caricaturist
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/29/2001; ; 700+ words
; James Gillray died, incurably insane, on 1 June 1815...enthusiastic exhibitor. In his confused state, Gillray sometimes received young artists, who...George Cruikshank, who was to inherit Gillray's spirit as well as his work table...
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James Gillray at Tate Britain.
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Principal among his tormentors was James Gillray (1756-1815), the subject of...French revolutionary satires. The Gillray prints are the highlights, however...works of its greatest exponent, James Gillray. It is a fact which does him credit...
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The scourge of Napoleon.(BEHIND THE LINES)(James Gillray)(Napoleon Bonaparte)(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the modem political cartoon was James Gillray (1756-1815) whose 250th birthday...twentieth century, so too did Gillray become the scourge of that other...modern times, Napoleon Bonaparte. James Gillray was born in Chelsea on August 13th...
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The art of caricature.(James Gillray, Tate Britain, London, England)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Hogarth, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray. Gillray was born in the Chelsea...Napoleon I. Struck by insanity, Gillray did not work from 1810 until his death. An exhibition entitled James Gillray: The Art of Caricature is on view...
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James Gillray.(Books and Arts)(caricaturist James Gillray, Tate Britain, London, England)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/16/2001; 450 words
; ...others should be interested too in James Gillray, and not just because one of England...18th century had his studio at 27 St James's Street, part of our current...monarchy, William Pitt and Charles James Fox, the French revolution and high...
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Books about antiques.(Gillray Observed: The Earl Earliest Account of his Caricatures in London und Paris)(Review)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; James Gillray Curiously the only contemporary writings about the English caricaturist James Gillray (1756-1815) were published in the German journal London und Paris...
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Gillray Observed: The Earliest Account of his Caricatures in 'London und Paris'.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 2/1/2000; 584 words
; Gillray Observed: The Earliest Account of his Caricatures in 'London und Paris...gaps has to do with the work of one of the most popular caricaturists, James Gillray. There was no account of his work published in England in his lifetime...
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Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida (c.1800) ; GREAT WORKS ++ James Barry ++ Sheffield City Art Galleries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...before the 20th century. Think again. James Barry's Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida...painting and no successor. THE ARTIST James Barry (1741-1806) was an Irish painter...stranger talents of Fuseli, Blake and Gillray.
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James Gillray
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
James Gillray , 1757-1815, English caricaturist and illustrator. He was essentially self-trained although he studied at the Royal Academy...
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Gillray, James
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Gillray, James (1756–1815). Caricaturist. Abandoning the discipline of...witty etching, and stimulated by the political satires of James Sayers, Gillray played a key role in the evolution of pictorial journalism by his development...
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Rowlandson, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...1827). English caricaturist . Rowlandson ranks with James Gillray as one of the founders and supreme figures of the English caricature tradition. However, whilst Gillray was a political satirist, Rowlandson excelled in comic...
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beauty spots
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...nineteenth century two of the most famous caricaturists, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, chose satire as their form of...eccentricities of their subject, they ridicule and shock. Gillray's etching, Dido in Despair (1801), shows an elephantine...
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cartoon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the works of Hogarth , Rowlandson , and Gillray , who often used caricature. Daumier...by such artists as T. S. Sullivant, James Swinnerton, Frederick B. Opper, and...Addams , Peter Arno , Saul Steinberg, James Thurber , William Steig, Helen Hokinson...
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