James Gillray was born in London in the Chelsey district. His father was Scottish and a war veteran. The young Gillray learned the profession of letter engraver and was later accepted as a student at the Royal Academy, working as an engraver time and again to finance his studies and livelihood. From a very young age he was interested in caricature, he especially loved William Hogarth, a very famous caricaturist of the 18th century who was his great idol. Very soon Gillray also began to publish caricatures himself, albeit at first under a fictitious name. Only little by little did drawings with his name appear. For many contemporaries and even today James Gillrey is considered "the father of political and social caricature". Of course, he also lived in a time of great political and social upheavals and also in a time when caricature as an important means of expression for depicting events and their interpretation became fashionable and suitable for the masses. Gillrey's intellect, his wit, his sometimes pitch-black humour and his gift for observation, but also his great talent for drawing made his works unique.
In his private life he was not so successful and happy. He suffered from arthritis or gout in his hands at a younger age, which caused him great pain, and his vision was also increasingly poor. Disabled in his work, he became melancholy and increasingly addicted to alcohol. James Gillray did not start a family either, but he probably lived with his publisher Hannah Humphrey for many years and thought about marrying her from time to time. At least contemporaries ascribe a relationship to the two and it is a fact that Hannah Humphrey took care of Gillray after he wanted to take his own life by jumping out of a window in 1811. He survived, but was repeatedly confronted with severe depressions and psychoses. In 1815 the artist died at the age of only 58 years. Among collectors the caricatures of James Gillray are still very popular. Key prints such as "Fashionable Contrasts" and "Light Expelling Darkness" have already fetched prices of 10,000 to 20,000 US dollars at auctions.
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.jpg "The Plum Pudding in danger or State Epicures taking un Petit Souper, pub. 1805 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Nelson")
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.jpg "A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion, July 2, 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "National Conveniences, 1769 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-161499).jpg "Dido in Despair, published by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")
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.jpg "John Bull Taking a Luncheon, or British Cooks, cramming Old Grumble-Gizzard with Bonne-Chere, published by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Le Baiser a la Wirtembourg, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1797 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-297654).jpg "Tales of Wonder, pub. H. Humphrey, London, 1802 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Germans Eating Sauerkraut by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Grand Coronation Procession of Napoleon the 1st Emperor of France, from the Church of Notre-Dame by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Fashionable Contrasts, or The Duchess")
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.jpg "Fighting for the Dunghill or Jack Tar settling Buonaparte by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Destruction of the French Colossus by James Gillray")
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.jpg "New Morality, or The Promised Installment of the High Priest of the Theophilanthropes by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Wine Duty, or The Triumph of Bacchus and Silenus with John Bull")
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.jpg "Evidence to Character: being, a Portrait of a Traitor, by his Friends and by Himself by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Triumphant Britons, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1780 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Scotch Harry")
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.jpg "Enter Cowslip, with a Bowl of Cream, Published by Hannah Humphrey in 1795 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency, with its Effect upon Patriotic Feelings by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Sketch of the Interior of St Stephens, as it now Stands by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Slice of Gloster Cheese, Published by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Ci-devant Occupations, or Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1805 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Zenith of French Glory; The Pinnacle of Liberty by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Phantasmagoria; Scene - Conjuring-Up an Armed Skeleton by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Germans Eating Sour-Krout, published by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Opposition Telegraph")
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.jpg "German Luxury, or Repos a l")
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.jpg "The Stays, plate one from Progress of the Toilet by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Patience on a Monument, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1791 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt, 1798 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Life of William Cobbett, written by himself, 1809 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Gillray Cartoon on Vaccination Against Smallpox Using Cowpox Serum by James Gillray")
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.jpg "London Corresponding Society, alarmed, vide. Guilty Consciences by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Lord Longbow the Alarmist, Discovering the Miseries of Ireland by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Accusing Spirit and the Recording Angel by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Plum Pudding in Danger, or State Epicures taking un Petit Souper by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Caning in Conduit Street, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1796 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Charon")
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.jpg "Boxing Match between Thomas Futrell and John Jackson, June 9th 1788 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Broad Bottom Drones storming the Hive: Wasps, Hornets, & Bumble Bees joining the attack, pub. 1808 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Generae of Patriotism, or The Bloomsbury Farmer planting Bedfordshire Wheat by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Sound of the Horn, or The Danger of Riding an Old Hunter, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1807 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Pigs Possessed: or the Broad bottomd Litter running headlong into the Sea of Perdition, pub. 1807 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Death of the Great Wolfe, pub. by H. Humphrey, 1795 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Boney and Talley, The Corsican Carcase-Butchers Reckoning Day - No Quarter Day! by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-392082).jpg "Give me the Sweet Delight of Love, a Catch, pub. 1781 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Sir Richard Worse-than-Sly, Exposing his Wife")
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.jpg "The Hustings. Vox Populi Well have a Mug! A Mug! A Mug! by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Theologie a la Turque, The Pale of the Church Mahomet, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1799 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Chancellor of the Inquisition marking the Incorrigibles, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1793 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Reception of the Diplomatique & his Suite, at the Court of Pekin, 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Political Candour, i.e. Coalition")
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.jpg "A Standing-dish at Boodles, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1800 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Guy Vaux discovered in the attempt to destroy the King & the House of Lords by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Duet:")
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.jpg "Lordly Elevation, pub. by Hannah Humphrey by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-392762).jpg "At Church, pub. 1791 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "All Bond Street Trembled as He Strode by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Pigs Possessed, or the Broad bottom’d Litter running headlong into the Sea of Perdition, 1807 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-391926).jpg "A Sale of English Beauties in the East Indies, pub. 1786 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Anti-Saccharites, or John Bull and his Family leaving off the use of Sugar, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1792 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Farmer Giles and his Wife showing off their daughter Betty to their neighbours on her return from school, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1809 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Uncorking Old Sherry, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1805 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Georgey in the Coal-Hole, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1801 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Death of Admiral Lord Nelson, in the moment of Victory, pub. 1805 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-391912).jpg "The Marriage of Cupid & Psyche, pub. 1797 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "French Liberty, British Slavery by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Britannia between Death and the Doctors by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Three Mr Wiggins")
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.jpg "Acting Magistrates committing themselves, being their first appearance as performed at the National Theatre Covent Garden, published in 1809 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Kick at the Broad-bottoms! - Emancipation of")
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.jpg "President of Municipal Administration, plate 5 from French Habits published by Hannah Humphrey in 1798 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Nuptial Bower with the Evil-One peeping at the Charms of Eden, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1797 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Metallic Tractors, 1801 by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1130889).jpg "The Times, Anno 1783, published by William Humphrey by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Liberty of the Subject, published by H. Humphrey, October 15th 1779 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Spanish Bull Fight, or The Corsican Matador in Danger, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1808 by James Gillray")
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_(see_191204_-_(MeisterDrucke-226030).jpg "Despair, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1802 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Royal Extinguisher, or Gulliver Putting Out the Patriots of Lilliput by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Lady Putting on Her Cap, Published in 1795 by James Gillray")
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_(see_191205)_-_(MeisterDrucke-576796).jpg "Hope, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1802 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Naval Eloquence (detail) by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-392463).jpg "Harpyes defiling the Feast by James Gillray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-196785).jpg "The Cole-Heavers, published by William Humphrey in 1783 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "A Phantasmogoria; - Scene - Conjuring-up an Armed-Skeleton by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Progress of the Toilet, or Dress Completed, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1810 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "End of the Irish Invasion - or - The Destruction of the French Armada by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Characters in High Life, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1795 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Hanging and Drowning, or Fatal Effects of the French Defeat by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Dun-Shaw, One Foot in Leadenhall Street & the other in the Province of Bengal by James Gillray")
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.jpg "The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, Published by Hannah Humphrey in 1797 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Substitutes for Bread, or Right Honourables Saving the Loaves & Dividing the Fishes, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1795 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Armed Heroes: British Prime Minister Henry Addington confronting Napoleon and the threat of a French invasion, 1803 by James Gillray")
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.jpg "Improvement in Weights & Measures or Sir John Seeclear discovering every balance of every British Flag by James Gillray")
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