In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Rooms
View by AppointmentBiography
James Gillray (13 August 1756 or 1757 – 1 June 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810.
Gillray has been called "the father of the political cartoon", with his works satirizing George III, prime ministers and generals. Regarded as being one of the two most influential cartoonists, the other being William Hogarth, Gillray's wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, keen sense of the ludicrous, and beauty of execution, at once gave him the first place among caricaturists.
This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Spotted a problem? Let us know.
Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
Attributed to James Gillray Shipwreck. Verso: Rough Sketch of a Similar Scene
date not known
Film and audio
Watch
Rude Britannia: Gerald Scarfe
TateShots' Comic Art trail continues with a look at satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe.
Features
Tate Etc
Who farted?: British comic art
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art:, Tate Britain’s forthcoming exhibition exploring the riotous history of humour in British visual culture ...
Press Release
Tate Etc
Thy hand, by Nature guided, marks the line – That stamps perfection on the form divine: Joshua Reynolds
Forget today’s celebrity icons. Paula Byrne looks at the first ever media frenzy for young actress and lover of ...
Tate Papers
Gothic Romance and the Quixotic Hero:A Pageant for Henry Fuseli in 1783
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) was one of the most inventive artists of his age, exploring the strange and fantastic in ...
You might like
John Thomas Serres
1759–1825
Dr Thomas Monro
1759–1833
Henry Tresham
1750 or 1–1814
John Robert Cozens
1752–1797
George Barret Junior
1767–1842
Robert Blake
1762–1787
John `Warwick’ Smith
1749–1831
Michael Angelo Rooker
1746–1801
Thomas Rowlandson
1756–1827
Thomas Kerrich
1748–1828
Henry Edridge
1768–1821
George Chinnery
1774–1852
Heneage Finch, Fourth Earl of Aylesford
1751–1812
Edward Francis Burney
1760–1848
William Henry Hunt
1790–1864