Hannah Humphrey
(circa 1745-1818), Publisher and printsellerSitter in 1 portrait
Artist associated with 720 portraits
Hannah Humphrey was the sister of engraver William Humphrey. She began to publish prints in the 1770s and she established a print shop in London in around 1779, from where she initially sold history and portrait plates and caricatures. In 1791, the renowned satirist, James Gillray, began to work exclusively for Humphrey, making her London's leading seller of caricature prints. Gillray lived with Humphrey for the next twenty years.
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 18 May 1780
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Emma Edgcumbe (née Gilbert), Countess of Mount Edgcumbe
probably by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 18 May 1780
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Emma Edgcumbe (née Gilbert), Countess of Mount Edgcumbe
probably by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
etching, published 18 May 1780
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 1 August 1781
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Queen Elizabeth I ('The great and glorious days of Queen Bess')
by Unknown artist, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 30 June 1781
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John Campbell ('Mr C-m-l the jolly presenter of the Cannongate Kirk, in Edinburgh')
possibly by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published circa 1781
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Giuseppe Puppo ('Signor Puppy. First catgut scraper')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 27 November 1781
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'Aside he turn'd for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyd them askance'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 12 December 1782
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 5 April 1782
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 12 April 1782
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'Rodney introducing de Grasse'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 7 June 1782
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'Irish gratitude' (Henry Flood?; Henry Grattan; Edmond Sexton Pery, Viscount Pery)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 13 June 1782
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'St George and the dragon' (Charles James Fox; George Bridges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 13 June 1782
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'Monuments lately discovered on Salisbury Plain'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 15 June 1782
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probably by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 26 November 1782
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Lady Cecilia Johnston ('St Cecilia')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 24 April 1782
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 4 May 1782
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'Evacuation before resignation'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 21 May 1782
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 22 August 1782
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'Neithe[r] war nor peace!' (Charles James Fox; Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Edmund Burke)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
etching, published 9 March 1783
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
etching, published 20 March 1783
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possibly by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 14 February 1783
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possibly by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 9 February 1783
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possibly by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 25 February 1783
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'Old man holding a candlestick'
possibly by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published February 1783
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possibly by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 25 February 1783
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'Neithe[r] war nor peace!' (Charles James Fox; Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Edmund Burke)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
etching, published 9 March 1783
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'Morning preparation' (Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Charles James Fox; Edmund Burke)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 25 February 1785
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'Evening consolation' (Edmund Burke; Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Charles James Fox)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 25 February 1785
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'Paille d'Avoine, - paille d'Avoine'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 10 November 1786
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Alessandro, Count of Cagliostro (Giuseppe Balsamo) ('A Masonic anecdote')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 21 November 1786
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 12 May 1787
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King William IV and an unknown woman ('Wouski')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 January 1788
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'Questions and commands; or, the mistaken road to He-r-f-rd; a Sunday evenings amusement'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 11 February 1788
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'There's more ways than one' (Charles James Fox; William Pitt; Edward Thurlow, Baron Thurlow)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 18 February 1788
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published July 1788
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'Mason, the Duke's confectioner, disposing of the trinkets'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 21 July 1788
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'Blood and co., setting fire to the tower, and stealing the crown'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 26 July 1788
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'Harry Jenkins, the masculine and feminine bellows mender'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 29 July 1788
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'John Bull, in a quandary' (Lord John Townshend; Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 31 July 1788
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'Election-troops, bring in their accounts, to the pay-table' (Edward Topham; William Pitt)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 14 August 1788
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'A lady at a card party who does not play'
possibly by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 22 May 1788
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published July 1788
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Marie-Madeleine Guimard ('The celebrated Mademoiselle G-m-rd or Grimhard from Paris')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
etching, published 26 May 1789
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William Pitt ('The vulture of the constitution')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 3 January 1789
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Messenger Monsey ('Ornaments of Chelsea Hospital; - or - a peep into the last century')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 19 January 1789
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'Shakespeare sacrificed; - or - the offering to avarice' (John Boydell)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 20 June 1789
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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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'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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'The monster going to take his afternoons luncheon'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 10 May 1790
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'Swearing to the cutting monster or- a scene in Bow Street'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 20 May 1790
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Philip Thicknesse ('Lieut Goverr Gall-Stone, inspired by Alecto; - or - the birth of Minerva')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
etching and aquatint, published 15 February 1790
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George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
by Henry Hudson, published by Hannah Humphrey, after Mather Brown
mezzotint, published 10 November 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
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Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk ('A natural crop;- alias- a Norfolk dumpling')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 21 September 1791
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 11 October 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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'Barbarities in the West Indias [Indies]'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 April 1791
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