James Gillray etchings, 1777-1811 (1790-94 volume II)
99 Portraits in set
The Heinz Archive holds a significant collection of James Gillray prints, bound in 8 folio volumes, including an 'outsize' album containing some of the artist's largest and most impressive caricatures. The volumes, purchased in 1947 from the print/book dealer Thomas Thorp, came from the collections of Ralph Clutton and John Roland Abbey (1894-1969), whose bookplates appear within each volume. The 846 prints represent approximately 90% of Gillray's entire oeuvre and include many of his most ambitious creations, such as 'Titianus Redivivus' (1797) and 'Shakespeare Sacrificed' (1789) as well as a number of his less familiar non-satirical items such as the engraving of William Pitt (1789). The prints are invariably in excellent condition and the hand-colouring retains its original vibrancy.
by Unknown artist
watercolour, circa 1810
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'John-Bull, baited by the dogs of excise'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 9 April 1790
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by James Gillray, published by James Ridgway
etching, published 14 September 1790
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'Smelling out a rat; - or - the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight 'calculations''
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 3 December 1790
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'Wierd sisters; ministers of darkness; minions of the moon'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 23 December 1791
NPG D12436
'Bandelures' (King George IV; Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe); Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
etching and stipple, published 28 February 1791
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'Oh! That this too too solid flesh would melt'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 20 March 1791
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Margaret's ghost' (Elizabeth Gunning; Susannah Gunning (née Minifie); Peg Minifie)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 25 March 1791
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'The accusing spirit which flew up to heavens chancery with the oath...'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 8 April 1791
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'Taming of the shrew : - Katharine & Petruchio : - the modern Quixotte, or what you will'
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 20 April 1791
NPG D12416
!['Barbarities in the West Indias [Indies]', by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey - NPG D12417](https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/std/mw61443/Barbarities-in-the-West-Indias-Indies.jpg)
'Barbarities in the West Indias [Indies]'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 April 1791
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John Boydell ('The monster broke loose - or - a peep into the Shakespeare Gallery')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 26 April 1791
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'The impeachment, - or - 'the father of the gang, turnd Kings evidence''
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published May 1791
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 May 1791
NPG D12420
probably by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 25 June 1791
NPG D12421
'French democrats surprising the royal runaways'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 27 June 1791
NPG D12422
'The National Assembly petrified. The National Assembly revivified'
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 28 June 1791
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Sarah Archer (née West), Lady Archer ('The finishing touch')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 29 September 1791
NPG D12424
Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire ('La derniere ressource; - or - Van-Buchells garters')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 3 October 1791
NPG D12425
Juliana Elizabeth Schwellenberg ('An angel, gliding on a sun-beam into paradise')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 11 October 1791
NPG D12426
Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe) ('Patent-bolsters; - le moyèn d'etre en-bon-point')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 13 October 1791
NPG D12427
Emma Edgcumbe (née Gilbert), Countess of Mount Edgcumbe ('A witch, upon a mount's edge')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 17 October 1791
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 1 November 1791
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'The soldier's return; - or - rare news for old England'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and stipple engraving, published 14 November 1791
NPG D12430
'A uniform whig' (King George III; Edmund Burke)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 16 November 1791
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 22 November 1791
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'Frying sprats, toasting muffins' (Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; King George III)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 28 November 1791
NPG D12433
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 14 December 1791
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William Pitt ('An excrescence; - a fungus; - alias - a toad-stool upon a dung-hill')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 20 December 1791
NPG D12435
'The York-reverence; - or - city-loyalty, amply rewarded'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 27 December 1791
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'A Connoisseur examining a Cooper' (Oliver Cromwell (in portrait); King George III)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured stipple engraving, published 18 June 1792
NPG D12459
King George IV ('A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured stipple, published 2 July 1792
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'A sphere, projecting against a plane' (William Pitt; Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 3 January 1792
On display in Room 11 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D12438
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published February 1792
NPG D12439
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 1 February 1792
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and soft-ground etching, published 16 March 1792
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William Pitt ('The bottomless-Pitt')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 16 March 1792
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Charles James Fox ('Design for the new gallery of busts and pictures')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 17 March 1792
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 March 1792
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 March 1792
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