Some useful websites:

• Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature On-line
• British Museum
• Art and satire on Tate@ BBC
• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRgillray.htm
• http://sweeney.ucr.edu/gallery/collection/gillray.html
• http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/art/courses/gillray/index.asp?num=9677

Please note: Tate cannot be responsible for the content of external web sites

Some useful books:

For an illustrated catalogue to the current exhibition, see James Gillray: The Art of Caricature, by Richard Godfrey and Mark Hallett, published by Tate Publishing in 2001. This item is available from the Tate online shop.

For a general introduction to British caricature, see English Caricature: 1620 to the Present, by Richard Godfrey, published by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1984

For a detailed examination of late-eighteenth-century graphic satire, see The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III, by Diana Donald, published in London and New Haven in 1996

For a biography of Gillray, see Mr Gillray the Caricaturist, by Draper Hill, published in London in 1965

For a very detailed description of the people and events in prints by Gillray and other satirists of the 16th - early 19th centuries, see Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, volumes 1 to 4 by Frederick G. Stephens and volumes 5 to 11 by M. Dorothy George, published in London between 1870 and 1954 (volumes 5 to 9 cover the years in which Gillray was working)