Gillray, James

(1757 Chelsea-6/1/1815 London) (England); aka pseudonym Kent, J.

   Caricaturist, cartoonist, engraver, and illustrator. Studied at the Royal Academy in London. Famous for producing over 1500 political satires, he is often credited as the founder of journalistic caricature. Like Rowlandson, he depicts the foibles of the lives of the people of his time.

   Reproductions: Balance of power; 1791; Wagner, 1986: p. 198 . Ci-devant occupations; 1805; Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 102 [B]. Fashionable contrasts; 1792; Lorenzoni, 1984a: p. 60 / Hurwood, 1975: p. 189 [B]. Fashionable contrasts, or the Duchess's little shoe yielding to the magnitude of the Duke's foot; 1792; Wagner, 1986: p. 198 [B]. [Figures fall from carriage in a sexual manner]; Dopp, 2000: p. 26 [C]. Lubber's hole — alias the crack'd Jordan; Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 106 [B]. [Madman with huge knife and fork holds a nude woman]; Dopp, 2000: p. 26 [C]. Morning after marriage or a scene on the continent; 1785; Wagner, 1986: p. 196 [C]. Moses erecting the brazen serpent in the desert; 1787; Lorenzoni, 1984a: p. 77 [B]. Presentation of the Mahometan credentials — or — the final resource of French atheists; Wagner, 1986: p. 199 [B] / Orgies, 1969: p. 52 [B]. Swearing to the cutting monster, or a scene in Bow Street; 1790; Wagner, 1986: p. 170 [B],

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 6: pp. 199-200; DoA vol. 12: pp. 639-641; James Gillray, Works of James Gillray: 582plates and a supplement containing the 45 so-called "suppressed plates" (New York: Blom, 1968); ThB XIV 1921: p. 47.