A smoking club, James Gillray - Engraving, Public domain image
Pitt and Dundas, Fox and Sheridan face each other across a long narrow table, smoking long pipes and puffing clouds of smoke in each other's faces. The gallery of the House of Commons is indicated in the backgr... More
Search night - or - state watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirato...
The interior of a bare, poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof. Pitt and Dundas, as watchmen, batter down the upper timbers of a door (right) which has been strongly bolted, locked, and barricaded. Both hav... More
The times, anno 1783, James Gillray
Figures personifying England, France, Spain, and Holland represent the international situation. England (right), a John Bull, stout and plainly dressed, holds up his hands, with a melancholy expression. By his ... More
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, James Gillray
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Horrors of the Irish-union. Botheration of poor Pat - or - a whisper a...
Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the "Irish Channel." On a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shiel... More
Alecto and her train at the gate of Pandoemonium - or - the recruiting...
Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holdi... More
Evidence to character - being, a portrait of a traitor by his friends ...
Depicted is the trial of O'Connor, who confesses to making an Irish-French alliance, before the presiding judge Buller. Testifying to the character of O'Connor are various members of the opposition. Starting at... More
Théologie à la Turque.–the Pale of the Church of Mahoment
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Tom Paine's Nightly Pest, James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey
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Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793
Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleev... More
Tom Paine's nightly pest, James Gillray
Paine lies asleep on straw on a ramshackle wooden bedstead, covered by his coat. He wears a cap and lies diagonally from left to right, facing the spectator. On the head of his bed are drawn the profile heads, ... More
United Irishmen in training, James Gillray
Outside a country ale-house, ruffians are practicing their weapons at close range on the effigy of a British soldier that is spiked on a spear (left). It wears helmet, coat stuffed with straw, and top-boots. On... More
Politeness, James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey
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Page with small sketches, including cherubs, ice skaters, and other fi...
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Politeness, James Gillray - Drawing. Public domain image.
A joint of beef hangs on the wall behind John Bull. A bundle of frogs behind the Frenchman. The Frenchman holds an open snuff-box instead of a bowl of soup, a laced hat is under his arm. He wears a bag-wig. Joh... More
Hyder Ally, James Gillray - Public domain scenic engraving
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The American Rattle Snake, James Gillray, William Richardson
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St. Cecilia, James Gillray - Public domain dedication image
Design in an oval. A burlesque of Reynolds's painting of Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia.' Lady Cecilia Johnston [1727-1817] sits at the organ in profile to the right, on a low stool, her face lit by rays which d... More
Scene le vrog house, James Gillray
Rodney (right) stands holding an ensign flag, looking towards three French Admirals in a state of humiliation. Their names are indicated by numbers referring to notes below the design. (1) Rodney ("Admiral Ro .... More
Balaam, or the majesty of the people, James Gillray
Design in an oval. A satire on tithes and the clergy. A tall, thin military officer, wearing a hat, gorget, and sword, carries on his shoulders an enormously fat parson dressed in gown and bands. The officer wa... More
Melpomene, James Gillray - Engraving, Public domain image
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The Duke of Athol, East Indiaman, James Gillray
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Dun-Shaw, James Gillray - Drawing. Public domain image.
Dundas as a colossus (a shah or bashaw of the Indies) straddles across the ocean, one foot on the roof of the India House (left), the other on a piece of land on the extreme right representing Bengal. In the se... More
A pig in a poke. Whist, whist, James Gillray
Four men, their feet cut off by the lower margin, play whist at a rectangular table. Each has one card in his hand and is about to play the last trick, the tricks piled on the table show that each side has six ... More
The Right Honorable William Pitt, James Gillray
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The National Assembly revivified, James Gillray
Designed in two compartments [with The National Assembly Petrified], one above the other, the figures in both being three quarter length. Here, a group of ruffians listen with delight to a cook (left) who takes... More
The National Assembly petrified, James Gillray
Designed in two compartments [with The National Assembly Revivified], one above the other, the figures in both being three quarter length. Here, a ragged French barber, in profile to the right, gesticulating an... More
The introduction, James Gillray
The Duke of York leads his bride to the King and Queen, who are seated side by side on the throne (right), much caricatured, making gestures of eager greed. The King looks through a glass, the Queen holds out h... More
The National Assembly revivified, James Gillray
Designed in two compartments [with The National Assembly Petrified], one above the other, the figures in both being three quarter length. Here, a group of ruffians listen with delight to a cook (left) who takes... More
The National Assembly, petrified, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray
Designed in two compartments [with The National Assembly Revivified], one above the other, the figures in both being three quarter length. Here, a ragged French barber, in profile to the right, gesticulating an... More
The National Assembly revivified, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray
Designed in two compartments [with The National Assembly Petrified], one above the other, the figures in both being three quarter length. Here, a group of ruffians listen with delight to a cook (left) who takes... More
The York-Minuet, James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey
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A sphere, projecting against a plane, James Gillray
Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt'... More
Modern hospitality, or a friendly party in high life, James Gillray
A scene at a faro-table. Part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground and players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she hol... More
The Reception of the Diplomatique and his Suite at the Court of Pekin
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Scotch Harry's news or nincumpoop in high glee, James Gillray
The heads and shoulders of the King and Queen (left) and of Dundas (right) face each other. Dundas holds a letter with a broken seal postmarked Bristol. He leans forward with a satisfied and cunning smile. He w... More
Scotch Harry's news or nincumpoop in high glee, James Gillray
The heads and shoulders of the King and Queen (left) and of Dundas (right) face each other. Dundas holds a letter with a broken seal postmarked Bristol. He leans forward with a satisfied and cunning smile. He w... More
Anti-saccharrites - or - John Bull and his family leaving off the use ...
The royal pair setting an example of economy, which appears by no means agreeable to all the family (Wright/Evans). The King, Queen, and six Princesses, three quarter length, are seated round a frugal tea-table... More
A democrat - or - reason & philosophy, James Gillray
Fox, a ragged sansculotte with bloodstained hands and a dagger dripping blood thrust in his belt, sings "Ca ira!" He capers, right hand on his hip, left hand held up; expression and attitude suggest quasi-intox... More
Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793
Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleev... More
Presentation of the Mahometan Credentials, or the final resource of Fr...
The King and Queen, seated on the throne (left), receive with astonished horror a deputation from Turkey. An arrogant Turk stands proffering a large rolled document with pendent seals on which are crescents. Be... More
A Colonel of the Janizaries, James Gillray
A bald man with a thick beard and moustache, in profile to right, hands joined in front of him, wearing a long ermine-trimmed gown and a hat with a full plume providing a broad canopy and a small flag. In a dou... More
Enter Cowslip, with a bowl of cream, James Gillray
An enormously fat lady stands in profile to the left, holding a bowl (resembling a punch-bowl), her left hand on her hip, holding up the frilled apron which drapes her quilted petticoat. She wears ringlets with... More
A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination, James Gillray
Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, hi... More
The British butcher supplying John Bull with a substitute for bread
Pitt (right), as a butcher, stands arrogantly behind his block, holding up a leg of mutton to a hungry, lean, and dismayed John Bull, who stands with bent knees (left), his right hand groping in his breeches po... More
Presages of the millenium, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray
Pitt as Death on the pale Horse rides naked on the White Horse of Hanover, galloping over the prostrate bodies of pigs. Other pigs, a multitude extending to the horizon, flee before him. On the horse's fringed ... More
Substitutes for Bread;–or–Right Honorables, Saving the Loaves, & Divid...
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Patriotic regeneration, viz. parliament reform'd, a la francoise, that...
The interior of the House of Commons. The Speaker's chair and the table are in the foreground on the extreme left. Only the Opposition benches are visible and are crowded with English sansculottes wearing bonne... More
Enchantments lately seen upon the mountains of Wales - or - Shon ap-Mo...
On a small plateau on the top of a mountain the Princess of Wales (left) reaches up to kiss the Prince of Wales (right), who has the body, horns, and beard of a fat goat. He kneels on one knee, his forelegs rou... More
Opening of the budget - or - John Bull giving his breeches to save his...
Pitt (right) stands stiffly in profile to the left, holding open a large sack-like wallet. He addresses John Bull, the central figure, a stout yokel, who holds out his breeches in his left hand to Pitt, while h... More
Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Ca...
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"No Flower that Blows is Like this Rose", James Gillray
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Sandwich-carrots! Dainty sandwich-carrots, James Gillray
A buxom girl pushes (left to right) her barrow of carrots along the pavement of Bond Street, looking over her right shoulder at Lord Sandwich ('Jemmy Twitcher'), who overtakes her and twitches her apron. He is ... More
Cymon and Iphigenia, James Gillray
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The giant-factotum amusing himself, James Gillray
Pitt arrogantly bestrides the Speaker's chair, towering high above the galleries of the House. He plays cup (or rather spike) and ball with the globe, on which 'France' is disproportionately large, the British ... More
The tables turnd. Billy in the Devils claws. Billy sendindng the Devil...
A design in two compartments. [left] Billy, in the Devil's claws: Fox as the Devil (left) grasps the thin and terrified Pitt round the waist, pointing with his left arm to a serried rank of French soldiers, lan... More
Toasting muffins, vide royal breakfast, James Gillray
The King, much caricatured, in dressing-gown and nightcap, sits over a fire in profile to the left, toasting muffins, the muffin-dish on a tripod beside him. His stockings are ungartered, the 'Honi soit' ribbon... More
Caricature, Push-pin, James Gillray, public domain cartoon image
Three people sit at a round table playing push-pin. The Duke of Queensberry (right) leans on the table, pushing the pin. In his right hand is a double lorgnette over which he leers at his vis-à-vis, a very corp... More
The esplanade, James Gillray - Drawing. Public domain image.
George III walks in back view with an awkward shuffle, his head turned in profile to the left to greet a tall general who bows. On the right, another officer waits, hat in hand, for recognition. They are Lord C... More
Bank-notes - paper-money - French-alarmists, o the devil, the devil! a...
Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with whic... More
The Daily Advertiser, James Gillray
Fox (right), a news-boy, ragged and unshaven, stands in profile to the left, his right hand on the knocker of the gate of the 'Treasury.' He wears a bonnet-rouge on the front of which is a tricolour placard (li... More
St. George's Volunteers charging down Bond Street, after clearing the ...
Three grotesque and ill-matched soldiers charge rapidly and fiercely down the pavement. Their bayonets threaten three women who flee in terror, only legs, petticoats, and an upraised arm being visible on the ex... More
Push-pin, James Gillray - Drawing. Public domain image.
Three people sit at a round table playing push-pin. The Duke of Queensberry (right) leans on the table, pushing the pin. In his right hand is a double lorgnette over which he leers at his vis-à-vis, a very corp... More
La bonnet-rouge - or - John Bull evading the tax hat
John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is a yokel with wrinkled gaiters, with a tattered ... More
The Daily Advertiser, James Gillray
Fox (right), a news-boy, ragged and unshaven, stands in profile to the left, his right hand on the knocker of the gate of the 'Treasury.' He wears a bonnet-rouge on the front of which is a tricolour placard (li... More
The Esplanade, James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey
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Nelson's victory, or good-news operating upon loyal feelings, James Gi...
Another satire on the supposed mortification of the Whigs at the destruction of the French fleet. The leaders of the party are expressing their feelings in a variety of different ways. They had predicted a very... More
Habits of new French legislators, and other public functionaries, no. ...
Two plates from a set of twelve 'French Habits.' [Left] Fox stands full-face, hands on hips, legs astride, looking arrogantly to the right. He wears a looped hat with large ostrich feathers, long loose coat wit... More
"Two Pair of Portraits" presented to all the unbiased Electors of Grea...
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Two pair of portraits - presented to all the unbiassed electors of Gre...
Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length portraits of Fox (Left) and Pitt (right). He holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulde... More
Evidence to character - being, a portrait of a traitor by his friends ...
Depicted is the trial of O'Connor, who confesses to making an Irish-French alliance, before the presiding judge Buller. Testifying to the character of O'Connor are various members of the opposition. Starting at... More
Doublures of character - or - strikeing resemblances in phisiognomy, J...
Bust portraits of seven leaders of the Opposition, each with his almost identical double, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes below the title. The first pair are Fox, directed slightly to the ... More
Meeting of the monied Interest. Constitutional opposition to ye 10 pr ...
Fox stands, declaiming violently to his supporters, who surround him. He holds out a paper. His clenched right fist is raised. He is dishevelled and ragged, with a padlocked 'Begging Box' slung round his should... More
United Irishmen upon duty, James Gillray
A night scene with a waning moon. United Irishmen burn and plunder. On the left is the corner of a farm house with flames pouring from a casement window. A ruffian wearing a military coat, tricolour cockade and... More
Consequences of a successful French invasion. No. III, plate 2d. Me te...
The hoe-driver stands on the left of the line of hoers (right), who advance diagonally. The husbandman is a fat John Bull, his wife a comely woman. Beyond the 'old man' is a fifth man. On the extreme right, Gil... More
Portrait of an Irish chief, drawn from life at Wexford
The Irishman, with coarse features and cropped hair, stands on a rounded hill, left arm raised oratorically, right hand on one of two pistols in his belt. He wears a round hat with a small tuft or plume tilted ... More
"Improvement in Weights and Measures"; or, Sir John Seeclear Discoveri...
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Fighting for the dunghill - or - Jack Tar settling Buonaparte, James G...
A British sailor, firmly planted astride the globe, is severely punishing Bonaparte, who, with one knee precariously on 'Turk[ey]' (Egypt), is about to fall backwards into space. Bonaparte wears a huge cocked h... More
Consequences of a successful French invasion. Me teach de English repu...
The hoe-driver stands on the left of the line of hoers (right), who advance diagonally. The husbandman is a fat John Bull, his wife a comely woman. Beyond the 'old man' is a fifth man. On the extreme right, Gil... More
French Habits, No. 2 - Les Membres du Conseil des Anciens
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A man of importance, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray
Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to... More
"Elegance Democratique." A Sketch Found Near High-Wycombe, James Gillr...
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A French gentleman, of the court of Louis XVIth. A French gentleman, o...
An elderly courtier of the 'ancien régime' (left) bows low, in profile to the right, grimacing. His features are aquiline. He wears a high toupet wig and a large black bag (which flies into the air as he bows) ... More
A French gentleman of the court of Louis XVIth. A French gentleman of ...
An elderly courtier of the 'ancien régime' (left) bows low, in profile to the right, grimacing. His features are aquiline. He wears a high toupet wig and a large black bag (which flies into the air as he bows) ... More
Pen-etration, James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey
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"Oh! Listen to the voice of love", James Gillray
An ugly man (left) kneels (on a spotted handkerchief) at the feet of a plain old maid seated on an upright chair. He holds her left hand, his right is on his breast. She holds up her fan in a way more encouragi... More
A French gentleman, of the court of Louis XVIth. A French gentleman, o...
An elderly courtier of the 'ancien régime' (left) bows low, in profile to the right, grimacing. His features are aquiline. He wears a high toupet wig and a large black bag (which flies into the air as he bows) ... More
A French gentleman, of the court of Louis XVIth. A French gentleman, o...
An elderly courtier of the 'ancien régime' (left) bows low, in profile to the right, grimacing. His features are aquiline. He wears a high toupet wig and a large black bag (which flies into the air as he bows) ... More
Mamlouk, et Hussard Republicain, general result of Buonaparte's attack...
A French hussar on a sorry horse flees before a well-mounted Mameluke, with a sabre in each hand, who rides him down. The Frenchman (left) turns in his saddle to hold out defensively a sabre whose blade is insc... More
Waltzer au Mouchoir, James Gillray
A couple dance in an assembly-room. The man, active and disheveled, smaller than his immensely fat partner, holds the ends of a large spotted handkerchief, since it is impossible to grasp her waist. In the back... More
Characters in high life, James Gillray
A tall handsome lady walks diagonally forwards from left to right, her left hand on the arm of a much shorter companion with a larger head, perhaps a young girl. The latter, though her dress is simple, has a gr... More
German luxury - or - repos a l'Allemande, James Gillray
A German officer lies on his back on a truckle bed in a poverty-stricken room. He smokes a long curved pipe, emitting clouds of smoke. His bare feet project from the striped duvet which is his only covering. On... More
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Portrait of a Child [Master Lamb], James Gillray
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Cockney sportsmen finding a hare, James Gillray
A hare crouches in long grass beside an old tree. The younger man (rather thin and fashionably dressed, wearing Hessian boots with pointed toes, and a cartouche-box which denotes the volunteer) runs forward dra... More
Two-penny whist, James Gillray - Public domain engraving
This appears to be intended as a sketch of one of the ordinary evening parties at the house of Mrs. Humphrey, the publisher of Gillray's caricatures. Mrs. Betty is the winner of the game, to the evident astonis... More
Waltzer au mouchoir, James Gillray
A couple dance in an assembly-room. The man, active and disheveled, smaller than his immensely fat partner, holds the ends of a large spotted handkerchief, since it is impossible to grasp her waist. In the back... More
Comfort to the corns, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray
An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and ... More
Buonaparte leaving Egypt, James Gillray
Bonaparte stands on the sea-shore, about to embark (on 23 Aug. 1799) in a boat (left) which will take him to a ship in full sail (the 'Muiron'). He looks with a sly leer to the right, where a little band of rag... More
Democratic gratitude ; Democratic religion, James Gillray
Two panels from a sequence of eight designs, arranged in two rows, titled "Democracy - or - a Sketch of the Life of Buonaparte." [Left] Democratic Gratitude. Buonaparte heading the Regicide Banditti which had d... More
A standing-dish at Boodles, James Gillray
A stout elderly man (three-quarter length) sits astride across a chair, his arms folded on its back. He wears a hat and holds a cane. His head is turned in profile to the left, and is seen through the wide-open... More