JAMES GILLRAY
1756-1815
Unless noted, all prints are printed in sepia ink on wove paper.
All were printed and coloured during Gillray’s lifetime.
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All were printed and coloured during Gillray’s lifetime.
Please get in touch for prices, availability or more details of condition etc.
If the print you are looking for is not listed below, please call us or fill in the contact form. Our stock is constantly changing. We have a large number or James Gillray prints for sale.
Wife & no Wife – or – A trip to the Continent
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Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition FeastS.W.Fores, 29 May 1787
Etching, engraving & aquatint 375 x 478 mm in black on laid paper, watermark indistinct bm 7166 A good early impression, the aquatint still printing strongly Sheet dusty on back, trace of vertical fold, just split in top margin & old strengthening centre. Small to very small margins with some minor blemishes |
Smelling out a Rat; - or The Atheistical-Revolutionist disturbed ...
H.Humphrey, 3 December 1790
etching & engraving 248 x 350 mm, printed in black, with publisher’s watercolour BM 7686 Laid paper, watermark: i taylor fine early impression with the earliest colouring showing Burke in purple Jesuit’s habit, later on this was altered to the blue & red Windsor uniform SOLD |
Anti-Saccharites, -or-John Bull and his family leaving off the use of SugarH.Humphrey, 27 March 1792
Etching 315 x 406 mm printed in sepia, with publisher’s watercolour bm 8074 A boycott of West Indian sugar and rum, a protest against the Slave Trade, was urged by W.Fox in 1791. Gillray’s fantasy of the Royal Family taking an anti- saccharite stand is combined with their reputed frugality very slightly faded, some marginal spotting SOLD |
A Proof of the Refin’d Feelings of an amiable character, lately a Candidate for a certain ancient City.
Without date or publisher, a privately commissioned electioneering print, c. June 1796
etching (244) x (354) mm, with H.Humphrey’s watercolour BM 8819 rare cut on/just within the plate-mark, faint diagonal crease mark |
Un Diplomatique, settling affairs at Stevens’s
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Habits of New French Legislators, and other Public Functionaries.
H.Humphrey, 18 April & 21 May 1798
etchings with engraving, each approx 260 x 195 mm, the final six prints with aquatint, all with publisher’s watercolour BM 9196-9201 & 9207-9212 with a variant of plate 5 in the supressed first state ex Kinross House, a uniform set, the variant print originally purchased with the set watermarks: 1794 / j whatman ex Kinross House The Whig party dressed in a burlesque of David’s costumes. Sheridan’s friends asked to have him removed from the set and Gillray replaced him with Horne Tooke very fine set, some with contemporary ms identities in the margin |
Portrait of an Irish Chief; drawn from Life at WexfordH.Humphrey, 10 July 1798
etching, engraving & aquatint 364 x 261 mm, with publisher’s watercolour bm 9236 (both second states) FIRST STATE before NO UNION added in flag above Erin go Brach! Faint mount burn, a rust inclusion in the sky, early 47 in ink lower margin SOLD |
Metallic TractorsH.Humphrey, 11 November 1801
Etching, engraving & aquatint 248 x 350 mm, with publisher’s watercolour bm 9761 The print was commissioned by Benjamin Perkins, Yale class of 1794, a Connecticut quack; presumably on the principle that any publicity is good publicity Collection: Dr.C.S.Warren, a descendant of Dr.Joseph Warren killed at Bunker Hill Margins top & botton, cut more or less on the plate-mark, well clear of border, at sides; a brown spot in the upper border |