Best Gillray
James Gillray’s “The Plum-pudding in Danger” (1805) is a British political caricature depicting Napoleon Bonaparte and William Pitt the Younger. The print satirizes escalating tensions between Britain and France following the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens. Gillray uses the image of carving a plum...
James Gillray’s “Caricatura” from circa 1801 is a significant satirical print that critiques the genre of caricature. The work demonstrates Gillray's mastery as a British political artist during the Georgian era. He employed this meta-caricature to examine and comment on his own artistic practice, m...
Gillray's 1792 political caricature parodies Milton's Paradise Lost, recasting Prime Minister Pitt as Satan, Queen Charlotte as Sin, and Lord Thurlow as Death in a commentary on British political corruption.
Weird Sisters is a satirical etching created in 1791 by British caricaturist James Gillray. The artwork portrays three prominent political figures of the Georgian era as the witches from William Shakespeare's Macbeth, brewing a potion in a cauldron. The figures depicted are widely believed to includ...
Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal is a satirical etching published in 1792 by British caricaturist James Gillray. The artwork mocks King George III and Queen Charlotte, depicting them as miserly figures dining on a remarkably meager meal of boiled eggs and toast. Gillray contrasts this extreme royal...
Gillray's 1798 print attacks the French Republic by depicting the apotheosis of General Lazare Hoche in grotesque terms, reflecting British hostility toward revolutionary France's military cult of personality.
