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James Gillray , 1757-1815, English caricaturist and illustrator. He was essentially self-trained although he studied at the Royal Academy and on the Continent. His caricatures of the court of George III made him immensely popular. His masterly delineations, vigorous, clever, often subtle, sometimes vulgar and grotesque, numbered more than 12,000. Among his best-known cartoons are A New Way to Pay the National Debt (1796), Social Elements in Skating (1805), and A Rake's Progress at the University (1806). Insanity ended his career in 1811.

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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, Gillray played a key role in the evolution of pictorial journalism by his development of recognizable caricature. Using brightly coloured, almost grotesque distortion of an individual's salient features, Gillray targeted the royal family, politicians, society figures, exquisites, and charlatans.

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Gillray, James (1757–1815) English caricaturist. His political and social satire was wider in scope than that of Hogarth. Gillray lampooned George III as ‘Farmer George’. William Pitt and Napoleon I appear in “The Plum Pudding in Danger”.

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