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failing as a portrait painter,
Gillray worked as a freelenace engraver and etcher. After 1782 he
started producing political satires, mainly inspired by the
conflict between the Whigs and the Tories, the French Revolution
and war against Napoleon. Originally his caricatures would have
been issued separately, mainly from the print shop of his mistress,
Hannah Humphrey, in St. James's Street, London. His eyesight
started failing him, causing him to stop work in 1809. Depressed he
turned to drink, and in July 1811 Gillray attempted to kill himself
by throwing himself out of attic window above Humphrey's shop. He
failed, and survived four years of insanity before dying in
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Duke Williams Ghost. Published May 7th 1799 by H. Humphrey 27, St
James's Street.
In this parody of Fuseli’s painting The Nightmare, Gillray
imagines that the ghostly apparition of the Prince’s great-uncle,
the Duke of Cumberland, has appeared before the Prince of Wales in a
drunken slumber to warn the Prince against debauchery. Beginning in
1797, satirical depictions of the Prince, as well as other members of
the royal family, virtually vanished from Gillray’s repertoire,
most likely in exchange for the pension he received from November 1797
to early 1801 from Pitt’s Tory administration. Gillray’s
supporter, George Canning, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, may have allowed this attack in retaliation for the
Prince’s treatment of Princess Caroline, his estranged wife. .x3**
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448. OPERATICAL REFORM; OR, LA DANSE A L'EVEQUE. March Uth, 1798.
MADEMOISELLE PARISOT. M. ROSIERE.The Bishop of Durham (Shute
Barrington) made a vigorous attempt to prevent the growing
licentiousness of the opera dance. For this he became the subject of a
host of caricatures and jeux d'esprit. Gillray has here invented a
dance, a I'eveque, in which the figurantes were to conceal their forms
under the modest covering of tho episcopal cassock. *Originally
published by
Hannah Humphrey in
1798 by James Gillray ** Hand Coloured. Trimmed from a
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106. BLUE AND BUFF CHARITY; OR THE PATRIARCH OF THE GREEK CLERGY
APPLYING FOR RELIEF. June 12th, 1793.
J. HALL. DE. PRIESTLEY. LORD STANHOPE. SHERIDAN.MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR.
HORNE TOOKE. FOX.Fox's private circumstances had become at this time so
embarrassed, that he was obliged to forego even the trifling luxuries
of life, and he was meditating on the necessity of retiring from the
political stage. But his friends interfered, and in the summer of 1793,
they held a meeting at the Crown and Anchor, to take his affairs into
considertion, and a large subscription, with which he was relieved in
his present need, and an annuity which was purchased for him, shewed
Fox's popularity. His enemies turned the distresses of the leader of
the Patriots into ridicule : he is here represented as receiving the
charity of the Committee in the shape of a shower of unpaid bonds,
dishonoured bills, and other similar documents from which they had
relieved him. Sheridan figures as the Sans-culotte highwayman; and
Liberty Hall, as he was called, the ci-devant apothecary, has in his
pocket a bottle of poison for " W. Pitt." Blue and buff were the
colours of Fox's party.*Originally published by
Hannah Humphrey in
1798 by James Gillray ** Hand Coloured. Trimmed from a
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ANTISACCHARITES ; OR, JOHN
BULL AND HIS FAMILY LEAVING OFF
THE USE OF SUGAR. March 27th, 1792.
GEORGE III. THE QUEEN. THE
PRINCESSES. The Royal Pair setting an
example of economy, which appears by no means agreeable to all the
family. Peter Pindar is said to have composed a poem on this
subject, which he destroyed before it was printed. **
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CORPOREAL STAMINA. April
13th, 1801.
LORD CHOLMONDELEY. **
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SYMPTOMS OF DEEP THINKING.
March 25th, 1800.
SIS CHARLES BUNBURY, BART. Sir
Charles Bunbury, Baronet, of
Barton, in Suffolk, was born in May, 1740. On the 2nd of June,
1762, he married Lady Sarah Lennox, daughter of the Duke of
Richmond. Lady Sarah Lennox was the grace and ornament of the Court
of George III. at the commencement of his reign, and inspired the
youthful monarch with a passion that many persons thought might
place a crown on her head. Never was a couple more unfortunately
associated than Sir Charles and Lady Sarah Bunbury. She was full of
life and spirits, highly accomplished, a distinguished leader of
fashion, to be met with in every scene of gaiety. Sir Charles was
absorbed in the pleasures of the turf : he had one of the finest
studs of race horses in the kingdom : and the training them for the
race course was his supreme delight. He was the constant companion
of sportsmen and jockies. We fear he was too often in the stable
when he should have been in the drawing-room, and neglected to
attend his wife to those parties of 'pleasure which her station in
life entitled her to visit. Fatal consequences ensued ; ' the form
which pleased a king/ and remained unsullied, yielded to the
artifices and unremitting attentions of a seducer. In the year 1
776, at a masqued ball given at'Holland House, by her sister, Lady
Holland, she eloped with the Hon. George Napier. Sir Charles
Buubury sued for a divorce, and the marriage was dissolved **
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MENTAL ENERGY. April 13th,
1801.
LORD CLARE. This nobleman, whose*
eccentric appearance is here
caricatured, was celebrated chiefly as an Irish statesman, and was
especially active at the period of the Union. **
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GUY VAUX. No date.
GEO. III. DUKS OP RICHMOND. FOX.
BURKE. KEPPEL. SHELBUENE.
DUNNING. This caricature, which is not dated, relates to the
intrigues of the Opposition to overthrow Lord North's
Administration in 1 782. Fox holds the dark lanthorn in his left
hand, and the barrel of gunpowder is under Lord Shelburne's left
arm. ** Hand Coloured. Trimmed from a larger sheet,
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LARGE BOOTS. May 25th, 1800.
ME. FRANCO. A gentleman then well
known on the turf, of Jewish
descent, which is indicated by the pigs. This was a private plate. **
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'Field Marshall Count SUWARROW
ROMNISKOY'
FIELD - MARSHAL COUNT SUWARROW-ROM-
NISKOY. May 23rd,
1799.
The great and sanguinary
General of the Emperor Paul I.
of Russia. In the middle of April, 1799, he assumed the command of
the Austro -Russian armies in Italy, and gained repeated successes
against the French in Italy during Buonaparte's absence in the East
; but his career was at length checked by Massena in Switzerland.
His victories had made his name popular in England, and procured
him the honour of this plate. He died in the year following
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527. A HINT TO YOUNG OFFICERS. July 7th, 1804.
LORD MOIRA. TOM SHERIDAN. The circumstance alluded to in this plate, is
as follows. Lord Moira, who was then Governor of Edinburgh Castle,
severely scolded his servant one morning for not calling him in time
for review. The man excused himself on the plea that Mr. Tom Sheridan,
his lordship's aidede-camp, never returned home till four or five
o'clock in the morning, and that this was the cause of his oversleeping
himself. Lord Moira desired him not to sit up that night, as he would
open the door himself. Accordingly, when Sheridan knocked, his lordship
opened it. Sheridan felt the rebuke, made many apologies, and promised
to be more regular in future. Close cut right edgePublished by
Hannah Humphrey in
1799 by James Gillray ** Hand Coloured. Trimmed
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74. PATRIOTS AMUSING THEMSELVES ; OR, SWEDES PRACTISING AT A POST.April
19th, 1792.
GEORGE III. FOX. PRIESTLEY. SHERIDAN.On the designs which the Tories
attributed to the Opposition, or, as they called them, the
Revolutionary Party in England, who they believed, or pretended to
believe, were willing to imitate the example of the Swedish regicide,
Ankerstrom. The faces of the revolutionary triumvirate aro more
coarsely burlesqued than is usual with Gillray. The post at which they
arc practising is very ingeniously worked into a rough contour of King
George.Published by
Hannah Humphrey in
1799 by James Gillray ** Hand Coloured. Trimmed
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