Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: caricatures - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Choir and Orchestra (A Choral Band)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/8 inches (21 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Studies of Academics

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (29.5 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Impeachment, - or - "The Father of the Gang, Turn'd Kings-Evidence"

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 15in. (30.5 x 38.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. United Irishmen Upon Duty

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 x 10in. (18.3 x 25.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Salute, - Vide, The Parade

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Nightly Visitors, at St. Ann's Hill; In Glided Edward's Pale-Eye'd Ghost, and Stood at Carlo's Feet

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 9 5/8in. (34 x 24.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Republican - Hercules Defending His Country

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 x 9 7/8in. (34.4 x 25.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Real Cause of the Present High-Price of Provisions or A View on the Sea Coast of England, with French Agents Smuggling Away Supplies for France

The Real Cause of the Present High-Price of Provisions or A View on the Sea Coast of England, with French Agents Smuggling Away Supplies for France

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 1/4in. (28.6 x 41.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Crown & Anchor - Libel, Burnt by the Public Hangman (from: Caricature, vol. 1)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 1/4in. (22.5 x 33.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A Democrat, - or - Reason and Philosophy

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 3/16in. (31.8 x 23.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Un Petit Souper, a La Parisienne; - or - A Family of Sans-Culotts Refreshing, After the Fatigues of the Day

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. John Bull Bother'd; - or - The Geese Alarming the Capitol

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 14 3/4in. (29.5 x 37.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Alecto and Her Train, at the Gate of Pandeomonium; - or - The Recruiting Sargeant Enlisting John Bull, Into the Revolution Service

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 17 1/4in. (37.5 x 43.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Sin, Death, and the Devil

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 15 1/4in. (29.5 x 38.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. French Liberty - British Slavery

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Hopes of the Party, Prior to July 14th, ---"From Such Wicked Crown and Anchor-Dreams, Good Lord, Deliver Us."

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 x 19 3/16in. (32.7 x 48.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Louis XVI Taking Leave of His Wife and Family

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4in. (24.8 x 19.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Soldier's Return; - or - Rare News for Old England - See the Conquering Hero Comes.

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 7/8in. (24.8 x 20cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Power of Beauty; - St. Cecillia Charming the Brute; - or - The Seduction of the Welch-Ambassador (from: Caricature, vol. 2)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8in. (25.1 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Duet. - Turn Fair Clora, Turn Ah Cruel, Turn Again

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4in. (29.2 x 21cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Finishing Touch

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 6 3/4in. (24.8 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. An Excrescence; - Afungus; - Alias - A Toadstool Upon a Dung-Hill

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 8 3/4in. (24.4 x 22.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Wha Wants Me?

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 1/2in. (22.9 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. La Derniere Resource; - or - Van-Buchells

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 6 3/4in. (26 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The National Assembly Petrified / The National Assembly Revivified

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 11 1/2in. (41 x 29.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Bridal-Night

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 17 1/4in. (28.6 x 43.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Retribution; - Tarring and Feathering; - or - The Patriots Revenge, - Nay You'll Stop Our Mouths, Beware Your Own

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-coloring
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 9 1/8in. (32.4 x 23.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Royal-Bull-Fight

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 13 3/8in. (22.2 x 34cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Republican Rattle-Snake Fascinating the Bedford-Squirrel ---

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 8 1/4in. (31.8 x 21cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Complaint

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 8 3/8in. (21.6 x 21.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Republican - Attack

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (24.8 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Apotheosis of Hoche

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/8 x 14 7/8in. (48.6 x 37.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Nuptial-Bower; "To the Nuptial-Bower he led her Blushing Like the Morn with the Evil-one, Peeping at the Charms of Eden." (from Milton)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 7/16in. (24.1 x 34.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 14in. (24.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. French Generals Retiring, on Account of their Health; - with Lepaux Presiding in the Directorial Dispensary

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 15/16in. (24.1 x 35.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Exit Liberte a la Francois! - or - Buounaparte Closing the Farce of Egalite, at St. Cloud near Paris, Nov. 10th 1799

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 1/2in. (23.2 x 34.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Buonaparte Leaving Egypt

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 10in. (33.7 x 25.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Patience on a Monument

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 8in. (30.5 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Gloria Mundi, or - The Devil Addressing the Sun

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 1/2in. (30.8 x 21.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Fox That Lost His Tail

Creator:: Print made by Charles Williams, active 1796–1830
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 14 5/8in. (22.2 x 37.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Royal Jasey!! A Sketch For a Vice-Roy!!

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 5/8in. (31.4 x 24.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Royal Soldier in His Majesty's Service

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 9in. (36.2 x 22.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Watchman of the State

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 12 7/8in. (21.9 x 32.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Return From Pizarro

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 12 5/8in. (21.6 x 32.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Duel - or Charley Longing For a Pop

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 16 1/16in. (27 x 40.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. A Whig Toast - A Tory Sentement (sic)

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 13 7/8in. (25 x 35.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. The French Bugabo Frightening the Royal Commanders

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 19 1/4in. (24.4 x 48.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Two of a Trade Can Never Agree

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 9 1/4in. (32.1 x 23.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The Budget or John Bull Frightened Out of His (Money) Wits

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 7/8in. (24.4 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. A Visit to the Irish Pig! . . . With Reflections Physical & Moral

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 13in. (22.2 x 33cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Drawing for Twelfth-Cake at St. Annes Hill!!

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 8 5/8in. (24.1 x 21.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Anticipation - Ways & Means - or - Buonaparte Really Taken!!

Creator:: Print made by Charles Williams, active 1796–1830
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 15in. (27 x 38.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. John Bull at His Studies. Attended by His Guardian Angell

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10in. (25.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. A Messenger From the Nile - Agreeable News for The Directory - or - The Runaway Admirals Unexpected Arrival

Creator:: Attributed to Charles Ansell, ca.1752–active 1790
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 16 1/2in. (25.4 x 41.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. The Tipperary Duellists or Margate Heroes

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 3/8in. (23.2 x 34cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. The Treasury Spectre, or the Head of the Nation in a Queer Situation

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 13 1/8in. (22.2 x 33.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Gentle Measures of Voluntary Confessions

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 10in. (33.7 x 25.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. A Cure For the Heart Ache!! A New Scotch Reel Altered From the Brunswic Minnet, & The Old Jersey Fig

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 14 3/4in. (21.3 x 37.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. A Dash Up St. James's Street

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 5 5/8in. (22.9 x 14.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Un Diplomatique, Settl'ing Affairs at Stevens's (Baron Haslang, Bavarian Minister)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 1/8in. (25.7 x 18.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. The Tree of Liberty, - With The Devil Tempting John Bull (Fox)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching in brown ink, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 10 7/16in. (36.5 x 26.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. John Bull Ground Down

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 1/4in. (24.1 x 33.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. The Lover's Dream

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 15 5/8in. (27.9 x 39.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Portrait of an Irish Chief; Drawn from Life at Wexford

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 8 13/16in. (32.5 x 22.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Light Expelling Darkness, - Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations, - or - The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 17 3/8in. (33.3 x 44.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Blindmans-Buff - or - Too Many for John Bull

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 1/4in. (24.4 x 33.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. The York Reverence; - or - City - Loyalty Amply Rewarded

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (24.8 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. The Royal Society

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 14 3/4in. (24.1 x 37.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. The Prodigal Son

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 1/2in. (18.1 x 14cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Les Trois Magots

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 13 1/2in. (30.5 x 34.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. The Dagger Scene: - or - The Plot Discover'd

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 11 5/16in. (34.6 x 28.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. The Slough of Despond----; Vide - The Patriots Progress

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 3/8in. (22.5 x 34cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Pantagruel's Victorious Return to the Court of Gargantua, (After Extirpating the Soup-Meagres of Bouille Land.) (from: Caricature, vol. 2)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 14in. (29.5 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. The Bishop of a Tun's Breeches; - or - The Flaming Eveque, Purifying the House of Office

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 1/2in. (24.8 x 34.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Taking Physick; - or - The News of Shooting the King of Sweden!

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13in. (24.8 x 33cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Miss, I Have a Monstrous Crow to Pluck with You!

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 10in. (20 x 25.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Vices overlook'd in the New Proclamation

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 13 3/8in. (22.2 x 34cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. The Introduction

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (24.8 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. The Royal Joke, - or - Black Jades Delight, A Hint For a New Reform

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 1/2in. (23.2 x 34.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Dido Forsaken, Sic Transit Gloria Reginae

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 3/8in. (26.4 x 36.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Monstrous Craws, At a New Coalition Feast

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 18 1/8in. (35.6 x 46cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Ancient Music

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 21in. (40.3 x 53.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Design for the New Gallery of Busts and Pictures

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 12 5/16in. (24.4 x 31.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. French Democrats Surprizing the Royal-Runaways

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/2in. (23.5 x 34.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Malagrida, Driving Post

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4in. (23.5 x 33.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. The Bottomless-Pitt

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 8 3/4in. (24.8 x 22.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Anti-Sacharrites, - or - John Bull and His Family Leaving off the Use of Sugar

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 15 5/8in. (31.4 x 39.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. The Sleep-Walker

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 8 1/4in. (31.8 x 21cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. A Sphere, Projecting against a Plane ---

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 8 3/8in. (23.8 x 21.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. The Prospect Before Us

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 12 1/8 inches (22.1 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. The Loves of the Fox and the Badger, - or The Coalition Wedding

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 1/2in. (20 x 31.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. The Legacy

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 6 1/4in. (29.5 x 15.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. The Dutch Divisions

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2in. (14 x 21.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. The Ghost's, or the Taylor Befrited &c. &c. A German Story

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. The Doctor Indulged with his Favorite Scene ---

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 5/8in. (22.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. The Funeral Procession of Miss Regency

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. A Sacrifice to Slavery, Dedicated without Permission to the Puppet Player in Downing Street

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 7/8in. (19.1 x 30.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. The Tottering Pyramid

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 1/2in. (29.8 x 21.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. The Fall of Dagon - or Rare News for Leaden-Hall Street

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 11 5/16in. (18.7 x 28.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Choir and Orchestra (A Choral Band)

2. Studies of Academics

3. The Impeachment, - or - "The Father of the Gang, Turn'd Kings-Evidence"

4. United Irishmen Upon Duty

5. The Salute, - Vide, The Parade

6. Nightly Visitors, at St. Ann's Hill; In Glided Edward's Pale-Eye'd Ghost, and Stood at Carlo's Feet

7. The Republican - Hercules Defending His Country

8. The Real Cause of the Present High-Price of Provisions or A View on the Sea Coast of England, with French Agents Smuggling Away Supplies for France

9. The Crown & Anchor - Libel, Burnt by the Public Hangman (from: Caricature, vol. 1)

10. A Democrat, - or - Reason and Philosophy

11. Un Petit Souper, a La Parisienne; - or - A Family of Sans-Culotts Refreshing, After the Fatigues of the Day

12. John Bull Bother'd; - or - The Geese Alarming the Capitol

13. Alecto and Her Train, at the Gate of Pandeomonium; - or - The Recruiting Sargeant Enlisting John Bull, Into the Revolution Service

14. Sin, Death, and the Devil

15. French Liberty - British Slavery

16. The Hopes of the Party, Prior to July 14th, ---"From Such Wicked Crown and Anchor-Dreams, Good Lord, Deliver Us."

17. Louis XVI Taking Leave of His Wife and Family

18. The Soldier's Return; - or - Rare News for Old England - See the Conquering Hero Comes.

19. The Power of Beauty; - St. Cecillia Charming the Brute; - or - The Seduction of the Welch-Ambassador (from: Caricature, vol. 2)

20. A Duet. - Turn Fair Clora, Turn Ah Cruel, Turn Again

21. The Finishing Touch

22. An Excrescence; - Afungus; - Alias - A Toadstool Upon a Dung-Hill

23. Wha Wants Me?

24. La Derniere Resource; - or - Van-Buchells

25. The National Assembly Petrified / The National Assembly Revivified

26. The Bridal-Night

27. Retribution; - Tarring and Feathering; - or - The Patriots Revenge, - Nay You'll Stop Our Mouths, Beware Your Own

28. The Royal-Bull-Fight

29. The Republican Rattle-Snake Fascinating the Bedford-Squirrel ---

30. The Complaint

31. The Republican - Attack

32. The Apotheosis of Hoche

33. The Nuptial-Bower; "To the Nuptial-Bower he led her Blushing Like the Morn with the Evil-one, Peeping at the Charms of Eden." (from Milton)

34. Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt

35. French Generals Retiring, on Account of their Health; - with Lepaux Presiding in the Directorial Dispensary

36. Exit Liberte a la Francois! - or - Buounaparte Closing the Farce of Egalite, at St. Cloud near Paris, Nov. 10th 1799

37. Buonaparte Leaving Egypt

38. Patience on a Monument

39. Gloria Mundi, or - The Devil Addressing the Sun

40. The Fox That Lost His Tail

41. The Royal Jasey!! A Sketch For a Vice-Roy!!

42. The Royal Soldier in His Majesty's Service

43. The Watchman of the State

44. The Return From Pizarro

45. The Duel - or Charley Longing For a Pop

46. A Whig Toast - A Tory Sentement (sic)

47. The French Bugabo Frightening the Royal Commanders

48. Two of a Trade Can Never Agree

49. The Budget or John Bull Frightened Out of His (Money) Wits

50. A Visit to the Irish Pig! . . . With Reflections Physical & Moral

51. Drawing for Twelfth-Cake at St. Annes Hill!!

52. Anticipation - Ways & Means - or - Buonaparte Really Taken!!

53. John Bull at His Studies. Attended by His Guardian Angell

54. A Messenger From the Nile - Agreeable News for The Directory - or - The Runaway Admirals Unexpected Arrival

55. The Tipperary Duellists or Margate Heroes

56. The Treasury Spectre, or the Head of the Nation in a Queer Situation

57. Gentle Measures of Voluntary Confessions

58. A Cure For the Heart Ache!! A New Scotch Reel Altered From the Brunswic Minnet, & The Old Jersey Fig

59. A Dash Up St. James's Street

60. Un Diplomatique, Settl'ing Affairs at Stevens's (Baron Haslang, Bavarian Minister)

61. The Tree of Liberty, - With The Devil Tempting John Bull (Fox)

62. John Bull Ground Down

63. The Lover's Dream

64. Portrait of an Irish Chief; Drawn from Life at Wexford

65. Light Expelling Darkness, - Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations, - or - The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition

66. Presages of the Millenium

67. Blindmans-Buff - or - Too Many for John Bull

68. The York Reverence; - or - City - Loyalty Amply Rewarded

69. The Royal Society

70. The Prodigal Son

71. Les Trois Magots

72. The Dagger Scene: - or - The Plot Discover'd

73. The Slough of Despond----; Vide - The Patriots Progress

74. Pantagruel's Victorious Return to the Court of Gargantua, (After Extirpating the Soup-Meagres of Bouille Land.) (from: Caricature, vol. 2)