Clubs
Gillray's prints include a number of references to clubs. In A smoking club (D12470) he likens the House of Commons to a smoking club in which members rudely blow smoke at each other. The signpost in The kettle hooting the porridge-pot (D12986) points to Brooks's club, at which Charles James Fox had built up large gambling debts.
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'The Union Club'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
published 21 January 1801
NPG D12754
A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique (Emma Hamilton; Horatio Nelson; Sir William Hamilton)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
published 11 February 1801
NPG D12755
'Integrity retiring from office!'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
published 24 February 1801
NPG D12756
'A pair of polished gentlemen' (Sir Lumley St George Skeffington; Montague James Mathew)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
published 10 March 1801
NPG D12757
'Political amusements for young gentlemen; - or - the Old Brentford shuttlecock, between Old Sarum, and the Temple of St Steevens'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
published 15 March 1801
NPG D12758
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