James Gillray etchings, 1777-1811 (1781-1810 volume VII)
72 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.
Marie Auguste Vestris ('A stranger at Sparta')
by Francesco Bartolozzi, by Benedetto Pastorini, probably after George Dance
etching and aquatint, published 2 April 1781
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by James Gillray, published by Robert Wilkinson
stipple and line engraving, published 4 June 1784
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'Col. Gardiner's last interview with his wife and daughter'
by James Gillray, published by Robert Wilkinson
stipple and line engraving, published 1 February 1786
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by James Gillray, published by William Holland
etching, published 5 April 1786
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'A new way to pay the National-Debt'
by James Gillray, published by William Holland
hand-coloured etching and engraving, published 21 April 1786
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'A sale of English-beauties, in the East Indies'
by James Gillray, published by William Holland
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 16 May 1786
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'Lady Termagant Flaybum going to give her step son a taste of her desert after dinner'
by James Gillray, published by William Holland
etching, published 25 May 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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'Wife & no wife - or - a trip to the Continent'
by James Gillray, published by William Holland
hand-coloured etching, published 27 March 1786
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by James Gillray, published by Susannah Vivares, after Lavinia Spencer (née Bingham), Countess Spencer
stipple engraving, published 27 February 1787
NPG D13057
by James Gillray, published by Susannah Vivares, after Lavinia Spencer (née Bingham), Countess Spencer
stipple engraving, published 27 February 1787
NPG D13058
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 10 May 1787
NPG D13060
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
etching and aquatint, published 29 May 1787
NPG D13061
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 29 May 1787
NPG D13062
'The loss of the Halsewell East Indiaman'
by James Gillray, published by Robert Wilkinson, after James Northcote
line engraving, etching and stipple, published 4 June 1787
NPG D13063
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
etching, published 22 August 1787
NPG D13064
John Howard ('The triumph of benevolence')
by James Gillray, published by Robert Wilkinson
stipple and line engraving, published 21 April 1788
NPG D13059
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 4 June 1788
NPG D13065
'The funeral procession of Miss Regency'
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 29 April 1789
NPG D13053
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
line engraving, published 20 February 1789
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by and published by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
line engraving, published 20 February 1789
NPG D13067
'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
NPG D13069
by James Gillray, published by James Aitken
hand-coloured etching, published 3 August 1789
NPG D13070
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
NPG D13071
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 14 May 1791
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by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 4 July 1791
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by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 19 July 1791
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'A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July, by the - Revolution Society'
by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 23 July 1791
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James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale ('The pacific entrance of Earl-Wolf, into Blackhaven')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 20 January 1792
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
etching, published 8 May 1792
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'The landing of Sir John Bull and his family, at Boulogne sur Mer'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 31 May 1792
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by and published by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 9 November 1792
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 20 May 1793
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'Blue and buff charity; - or - the patriarch of the Greek clergy applying for relief'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 12 June 1793
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by Isaac Cruikshank, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 1 April 1795
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by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, soft-ground etching and engraving, published 30 April 1795
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'The contrast, or things as they are'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 12 November 1796
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'Titianus Redivivus; - or - the seven-wise-men consulting the new Venetian oracle'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 2 November 1797
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'Consequences of a successful French invasion, No 1, plate 1st'
by and published by James Gillray
hand-coloured etching, published 1 March 1798
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'Consequences of a successful French invasion, No 1, plate 2d'
by and published by James Gillray
hand-coloured etching, published 1 March 1798
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