#James Gillray
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thefugitivesaint · 2 days ago
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James Gillray (1756-1815), 'The Powerful Arm of Providence: An Allegorical Print, Applicable to the Year 1831', 1800 "Satire: Providence dropping her flowers on England, at end of rainbow, with storm raging in sky and 'cosmic' hand reaching out from behind cloud to crush solar system" Source
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random-brushstrokes · 1 year ago
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James Gillray - Fashionable contrasts; -or- the duchess's little shoe yielding to the magnitude of the duke's foot (1792)
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empirearchives · 2 years ago
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Me: *feels guilty about reading the private love letters of historical figures which can get pretty intimate at times*
Also me:
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guy60660 · 9 months ago
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James Gillray | Public Domain Review
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mysterious-secret-garden · 1 month ago
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James Gillray - Shakespeare Sacrificed, 1789.
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lordansketil · 9 months ago
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The Prince of Wales, wearing the uniform of his light dragoon regiment, rides Lord Jersey to a bed where Lady Jersey awaits him. (1796)
Fashionable jockeyship. Nobody does it like James Gillray.
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werewolfetone · 2 years ago
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That one James Gillray cartoon that I just reblogged a video about is the most famous but that's a shame because that particular drawing does not even come close to representing how insane your average cartoon by Gillray is. for instance here is something that he drew to warn people about what was going to happen if the French Revolution was replicated in Britain,
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clove-pinks · 2 years ago
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James Gillray, The bow of a three-decker; part of a ship with figure-head at left. Pen and grey ink, with grey and pale buff wash, made 1772-1794 (British Museum).
Adam Smith had a lot of interesting things to say about sailors in The Wealth of Nations (1776):
The lottery of the sea is not altogether so disadvantageous as that of the army. The son of a creditable laborer or artificer may frequently go to sea with his father's consent; but if he enlists as a soldier, it is always without it.
But he dates himself with statements like: "The great admiral is less the object of public admiration than the great general; and the highest success in the sea service promises a less brilliant fortune and reputation than equal success in the land." (Obviously this is before the Royal Navy was respectable enough to have a king's son as a midshipman, and other aristocracy who crowded its ranks post-Battle of Trafalgar).
After a mention of sea captains being less in "common estimation" than army colonels, this passage about sailors rings true for the early 19th century:
Common sailors, therefore, more frequently get some fortune and preferment than common soldiers; and the hope of those prizes is what principally recommends the trade. Though their skill and dexterity are much superior to that of almost any artificers, and though their whole life is one continual scene of hardship and danger, yet for all this dexterity and skill, for all those hardships and dangers, while they remain in the condition of common sailors, they receive scarce any other recompense but the pleasure of exercising the one and of surmounting the other. Their wages are not greater than those of common laborers at the port which regulates the rate of seamen's wages.
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Thomas Rowlandson, Ships and Sailors (late 18th century-early 19th century), The Met.
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heracliteanfire · 9 months ago
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A great Stream from a Petty-Fountain;-or-John Bull swamped in the flood of new-taxes:-cormorants fishing in the stream.
Satirical print, James Gillray, 1806.
(via British Museum)
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tratadista · 1 year ago
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James Gillray
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laku-incarnate · 4 days ago
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Geography Bewitched! or, a droll caricature map of England & Wales, Robert Dighton, 1795
Britannia, James Gillray, 1791
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kecobe · 6 months ago
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Modern Grace, or, The Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro James Gillray (British; 1756–1815) Hand-colored etching on wove paper, 1796 Yale University Library, The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Connecticut
Publisher: Hannah Humphrey, New Bond Street, London
“Didelot dances on the stage between two women, both very lightly clad in quasi-classical costume, and wearing ‘cothurnes.’ He wears a feathered hat, tunic, and cloak, and looks towards Mme Parisot (right); she strikes an attitude with right leg raised and arms extended, and looks alluringly towards him, her right breast bare. Mme Rose (left), his wife, dances with more restraint, her sharp-featured profile turned austerely towards her husband. All wave their arms above their heads, and their attitudes are in fact graceful (though caricatured). Two plump ‘danseuses’ (left and right) whirl on one toe in the background. Behind Didelot is an irradiated sun, with features looking down disapprovingly at the dancer.” — British Museum online catalogue
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amoebasareverysmall · 9 months ago
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empirearchives · 2 years ago
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Historian Alice Loxton explaining this political satire of Napoleon and William Pitt the Younger, 1805, by James Gillray. Displayed at the London Original Print Fair.
She calls it “one of the most famous political cartoons ever made.”
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wordycheeseblob · 1 year ago
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If caricatures, which aside from social commentary were seen as powerful political tools, can be considered as a predecesor of memes, by that logic
Napoleon was defeated by a Meme Lord.
True story. In a way, James Gillray did what many generals in Europe couldn't creating a myth that perpetuated the image of a tiny little man with a short fuse in the minds of people centuries later.
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mysterious-secret-garden · 1 year ago
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James Gillray - A Peep into the Cave of Jacobinism, or Magna est Veritas et praevalebit, 1798.
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