Gillray James, Signed (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. James Gillray (illustrator). The cover has brown cloth. The illustrations are browntone. Some of them are details of adjacent illustrations. The front endpaper has an inscription by the author, signed as DRAPER. Below that, he drew a 5 color illustration which includes a drawing of the front panel of this book's dust jacket. The pastedowns are wavy along the spine. The front free endpaper has an embossed stamp of a private library. The half-title page has foxing, some of which has transferred onto the back side of the front free endpaper. The pages have a light odor from the illustrated pages, perhaps from the ink. DJ: The spine panel has faded to a lighter blue. The ends of the spine panel and most ends of folds have color loss from shelf wear rubbing. The lamination is loose on the back panel's right side fold. Scans e-mailed upon request. Priority or international shipping will require extra shipping cost. Inscribed (to a name) And Sign.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket after James Gillray (To whom this book is dedicated) (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'Dear Lionel, Alice Loxton'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£25.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 398pp, illustrated. London 1772, a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy back streets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an art form, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power. Very scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

Small folio. (278 x 222 mm). [12 leaves]. 12 etched plates by James Gillray, each with wash borders and additional colouring by hand, signed beneath 'J[ame]s. G[illra]y. d[elineavit]; & f[eci]t.' at lower left and with the publisher's address 'Pub[lishe]d. April 18th ( - May 21st) 1798. by H[annah]. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street' at lower right and with title caption at foot, the first plate with title as above and numbered '1', the remainder with 'French Habits' and numbered 2 - 12; plates mounted on tabs throughout, sheet size: c.268 x 202x mm. Later marbled paper-covered boards, black morocco label with gilt title to spine. A very fine complete set of James Gillray's hand-coloured satirical etchings of the Whig opposition depicted in the costumes designed by Jacques-Louis David for the legislators of the French republic. Published by Hannah Humphrey from her shop in St. James's between 18th April and 21st May, 1798, Gillray's caricatures depict, despite the title indicating they are French, English legislators.More particularly they satirise the Whig opposition of the day, viewed through the prism of the revolution in France. The first plate for example, 'Le Ministre d'Etat, en Grand Costume', shows Charles James Fox outfitted as a revolutionary but standing on a rug embroidered with the Royal arms and motto 'Dieu et Mon Droit'. Fox was, at that moment, in the political wilderness and he and his allies found themselves in a precarious position in the face of a popular war and its Tory advocates led by Pitt. Gillray, always conservative, was merciless in his ridicule of France, the French, the revolution and those he took to support them. Later the same year, Lord Bateman wrote to Gillray: 'The Opposition are as low as we can wish them. You have been of infinite service in lowering them, and making them ridiculous.' The legislators with their titles and attributions (as per the BM) are the following: 1. Le Ministre d'Etat, en Grand Costume - Charles James Fox. 2. Les Membres du Conseil des Anciens - Lords Landsdowne, Norfolk and Grafton (left to right). 3. Les Membres du Conseil des Cinq Cents - Lords Stanhope, Derby and Lauderdale, M. A. Taylor and Lord Grey (right to left). 4. Membre du Directoire Exécutif - Earl of Bedford. 5. President d'Administration Municipale - John Horne Tooke. 6. Le Boureau - Tierney. 7. L'Avocat de la Republique - Lord Erskine. 8. Membre de la Haute Cour de Justice - Sir George Shuckburgh. 9. Juge du Tribunal Correctionnel - Courtney . 10. Juge de Paix - Nicholls, M.P. for Tregony. 11. Le Tresorier - Sir William Pulteney. 12. Messager d'Etat - Sir F. Burdett. [BM Satires 9196 - 9201 / 9208 - 9213].

Condition: Good. Etching on wove paper. 250 x 345 mm. platemark. Sheet size 300 x 440mm. Signed in the plate lower left with publisher lower right.References: British Museum 1868,0808.7464; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (10574)).The triumphal procession (left to right) of a black woman symbolizing Quassia, a drug obtained from the Quassia tree, which is supposed to have supplanted hops in brewing. She sits astride a drayman's pole (as in BMSat 10580, &c), from which is suspended horizontally a cask inscribed 'True Quassia Free from Taxation'; the pole is supported on the shoulders of two brewers, Whitbread (r.), and Combe (l.). She holds up in one hand a branch of the noxious tree, with a (tricolour) scroll: 'Kill-Devil [rum] for ever', and in the other a frothing tankard inscribed 'Quos-sia'. This is irradiated, the rays being inscribed 'Apoplexy', 'Palsy', 'Consumption', 'Debility', 'Colic', 'Stupor', 'Dropsy', 'Scurvy', 'Dysentery', 'Hæmorrhoids', 'Hydrophobia', 'Idiotism'. A third brewer, the very corpulent George Barclay, follows on the extreme left., waving his hat. He holds up a (tricolour) standard: 'Pro bono Publico - Quassia for Ever, - No Hops! no Malt! Down with all the Private Breweries! - Kill-Devil and Quassia for Ever!' From his apron projects a book: 'Receipts to make a Cauliflour Head'. In front of the procession is a dray-horse, with dangling chains which show that the barrel has been detached from them; its head is cut off by the r. margin. On its back sits the bulky Grenville between Fox and Petty who clings to his waist. All are in court dress, and exultingly wave their cocked hats, which, like the hats of the brewers, are decorated with large tricolour favours inscribed 'Quassia for Ever'. On the horse is a pannier with a (tricolour) label: 'Grains from the Quassia Breweries for the New Piggery' [cf. BMSat 10540]; this, like the riders' pockets, is overflowing with guineas. .From Petty's hat fall two bundles of papers: 'Tax upon Private Brewer[ies]' and 'Tax upon Maid-Servants'. Whitbread, who looks round at the spectator, has a favour in his hat larger than the others and having the additional inscription. 'No Private Breweries - Impeachment of Malt & Hops! No Scotch Barley', indicating his charges against Melville (see BMSat 10576, &c). On the ground lie broken hop-poles, with hop-vines still attached to them. Behind are conical stacks of hop-poles 'To be Sold for Fire-Wood'.

Condition: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 260 x 192 mm. platemark. Sheet size 360 x 260 mm. Signed in the plate lower left with publisher lower right.References: British Museum 1851,0901.911; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (9209).Eighth plate in the series "French habits." First plate in the series has series title "Habits of new French legislators and other public functionaries."Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Temporary local subject terms: French costume: Directory judge.

Condition: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 280 x 215 mm. platemark. Sheet size 380 x 270mm. Signed in the plate lower left.References: British Museum 11105991; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (9585).An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat.;

Condition: Good. Handcolored etching. on wove paper. 35.8 x 25 cm. platemark Sheet size 38.7 x 28.5 cm. Signed and dated in the plate lower left. Publisher name lower right.References: British Museum BM 10571; Met Museum Accession Number: 17.3.888-78;Wright and Evans, No. 321.Yale University library:"Fox and Lord Henry Petty stand at the door of a ramshackle tenement house; a distressed family look down at them from an open casement window over the door. Petty's hand is on the knocker; he holds a large open book and shouts "Taxes! Taxes! Taxes!" Behind his ear a pen. The book, on which Fox puts both hands, is inscribed: 'New Taxes, Property Tax 10 per Cent, Small Beer Tax, Tax on Servant Maids, Iron tax [scored through], new Malt Tax, new Window Tax, new Stamp Tax, Hats, Salt, Tobacco, Shoes, Shirts, stock[ings]'. Between door and window is a board: 'John-Bull, - late Dealer in the Shop-below; - Moved Upstairs: NB - Porter-age done; Shoes clean'd &c.' The angry John, much dishevelled, holds open the window to shout down: "Taxes? - Taxes? - Taxes? - why how am I to get Money to pay them all? - I shall very soon have neither a House, nor Hole to put my head in." Fox answers: " - a house to put your \ "head in? - why what \ "the Devil should you want \ "with a House? - hav'nt \ "you got a first-Floor-Room \ "to live in? - & if that is too \ "dear, can't you move into \ "the Garret or get into the \ "Cellar? - Taxes must \ "be had, Johnny! - come \ "down with your Cash \ "its all for the good \ "of your dear \ "Country!" In Fox's coat pocket is a large money-bag inscribed 'Poundage'. Behind John stands woman holding an infant in each arm, another child gnaws a bone; two others one with a skull-like head, look from the window. On the ground floor (l.) is a shuttered window placarded 'This Shop to Let Enquire of the Tax Gatherer'. The window above it has been bricked up to escape the tax; a lean cat looks from the casement under the eaves. From the window above John Bull (a corner only visible) hang a ragged shirt and stockings. A lamp projectine from the house (a corner one) is broken. Against the wall beside the door (r.) is a pump at which are three ragged children: a little boy pumps, another kneels to put his mouth to the gushing water, while a little girl with a raw turnip eagerly waits her turn. On the pump are two inscriptions: 'New Brewery for the Benefit of the Poor - C.J. F - in ye Chair - Resolved . . .' and 'Erected 1806 C.J Volpone [cf. BMSat 9892, &c.] - Overseer'. By the children lie a hoop-stick and a hoop from a barrel and inscribed 'Whitbreads Entire' [cf. BMSat 10421, &c.]. On the left. are barrels inscribed 'Home-Brew'd Small-Beer Ten Shillings a Barrel Duty'. Across the road (l.) is a pawnshop with the sign of the three balls: 'Broad-bottom Pop-Shop' [see BMSat 10530]. In the upper windows of the prosperous shop are piles of moneybags inscribed 'Pension' and 'Sinecure'."--British Museum online catalogue.

Condition: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. 35 x 24.3cm. sheet size. Trimmed inside the platemark. Signed in the plate with publisher name lower right.References: British Museum 1868,0808.6520; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (8798); Yale University no. 11105991. A tun of 'Wine' lies on solid trestles inscribed 'Treasury Bench'. From its huge bung-hole emerges the naked body of Pitt, as Bacchus, crowned with vine branches. He leans back tipsily, a brimming glass in each hand. Behind him stands Dundas as Silenus, fat, and partly draped in tartan; his right hand grasps Pitt's shoulder, in his left he holds up a brimming glass. He also is crowned with vine branches. Bunches of grapes hang down from a vine above their heads and are indicated as a background to the cask whose trestles are on a dais covered with a fringed carpet. Opposite the tun stands John Bull in profile to the left, looking up at Pitt, hat in hand; in his left hand is a lank purse, under his arm three empty bottles. He is a yokel, with lank hair and hydrocephalic head, wearing a smock and wrinkled gaiters. He says: "Pray Mr Bacchus have a bit of consideration for old John; - you know as how I've emptied my Purse already for you - & its waundedly hard to raise the price of a drop of Comfort, now that one's got no Money left for to pay for it!!!" Pitt says: "Twenty Pounds a T-Tun, ad-additional Duty i-i-if you d-d-don't like it at that, why t-t-t-then Dad & I will keep it all for o-o-our own Drinking, so here g-g-goes old Bu-Bu-Bull & Mouth!!! - " 20 April 1796Hand-coloured etching.

Condition: Good. Handcolored etching on laid paper. 24.5 x 33cm. platemark. Lettered watermark ARXXXX?Sheet size 27 x 35.7cm. Signed and dated in the plate lower left. No publisher name lower right.No. IV above the image upper right. Fold marks. Very fine contemporary coloring.References: Grego, 'Gillray', p. 329 (reproduction, p. 328). Wright and Evans, No. 311; BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (10540). Yale University library:"An old sow lies exhausted on a pile of straw outside a sty roofed with dilapidated thatch. She is beset by thirty-two voracious piglets with human heads. [The identifications are those of Miss Banks, confirmed by Lord Holland. The identifications of Wright and Evans are incomplete; Ellenborough is called the Speaker.] John Bull, a clumsy yokel in a smock, holding a pitchfork, looks over the low stone wall surrounding the sty. He exclaims: "O Lord - O Lord! - well! - I never had such a Litter of hungry Pigs in all my life before! - why, they's beyond all count! - where the devil do they think I shall find Wash & Grains for all their Guts? - zookers, why they a drain the poor old Sow to an Otomy! - 'e'cod She'll make but bad Bacon for Boney, when they's all done sucking o' her - !!!' In the centre of the struggling mass of pigs is Fox with Grenville on his left. and Grey on his right. He bestrides the Duke of Clarence, whose hind-quarters only (clad in blue and buff) are visible, and supports his right. hind-leg on the back of the Prince of Wales, who is in back view but wearing a ribbon and unmistakable. Grey also clambers over the Prince. On Grenville's l. is his fat nephew, Lord Temple. The head next Grenville is that of Sidmouth, across whose back Lord Henry Petty scrambles open-mouthed. Above Petty, Sheridan scrambles avidly over the sow; Erskine, in his Chancellor's wig scampers over the sow's hind leg. Lauderdale, whose body is chequered to indicate tartan, is behind Grenville, next him (l.) is Vansittart; on the left of the latter is a group of three plump pigs one with the head concealed, the others smiling with complacent anticipation; they are Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn and his two brothers, see BMSat 9760, &c. Behind them (l.) three pigs scamper towards the sow (l. to r.): Tierney, the Duke of Bedford, and Lord Derby. Behind again, and on the extreme left. are five rather smaller animals: George Walpole, Adair (half cut off by the margin), Burdett, Horne Tooke wearing clerical bands, and Lord Carlisle. On the r. of Grey and the Prince are Lord St. Vincent, with a foreleg on the Prince, Courteney, a foreleg on Grey, Lord Spencer who has secured a teat, and Windham who clambers downwards from the sow's shoulder. Between Courteney and Spencer is a pig whose head is concealed, 'not meant for any body'. Climbing up the farther side of the sow and on the r. are Lord Ellenborough in his wig, Lord Fitzwilliam, and Moira who scampers on the creature's back."--British Museum online catalogue.

Condition: Good. Handcolored etching on wove paper. Trimmed at the platemark.Sheet size 24.7 x 35.2 cm. Signed and dated in the plate lower right.Publisher name lower right.References: British Museum BM 8984; Met Museum Accession Number: 1976.602.23.The Feast of Reason. . . shows five notable Whigs siting at a table engaged in what can only very broadly be described as conversation. They include (from left to right) George Hanger, the longtime carousing companion of the Prince of Wales, with spilled glass and his trademark bludgeon in his boot, Charles James Fox, the Whig opposition leader (with his back to us), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright, ardent Whig, and perennial debtor, looking (as usual in Gillray's prints) furtive and unreliable, the diminutive Michael Angelo Taylor, Member of Parliament, Whig supporter, and frequent subject in Gillray's prints after 1793, and finally John Courtenay, a sarcastic speaker in Parliament, and member of both the Whig Club and Brooks's.Yale University library:"The feast of reason & the flow of soul", i.e., The wits of the age setting the table in a roar.

Condition: guter Zustand. Gillray, James. Two-Penny Whist.1796. Kupferstich / Linienstich. Originale Künstlergrafik, von James Gillray. 24,9 x 35,4 cm (Darstellung / Platte), 31 x 49 cm (Blatt).Verso weitere Karikatur: The fashionable mamma, or the convenience of modern dress, Gillray, 1796. Ecken leicht bestoßen. Sonst aber guter Zustand.James Gillray (1757 Chelsea - 1815 London). Britischer Karikaturist und Radierer. Ab 1778 studierte er an der Royal Academy of Arts. Ab 1782 veröffentlichte er fast ausschließlich Karikaturen zum aktuellen politischen Geschehen. Vertrieben wurden seine Arbeiten von Printshops und Hannah Humphrey, der Schwester des Grafikers William Humphrey. Links unten signiert: J. Gillray ad viv. fec.t. Unterhalb der Darstellung Titel und rechts Verlegeradresse mit Datierung. 24,9 x 35,4 cm (Darstellung / Platte), 31 x 49 cm (Blatt).

Condition: mäßiger Zustand. Gillray, James. Two Pair of Portraits; - presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain, by John Horne Tooke.1798. Radierung / Kupferstich. Karikatur, von James Gillray. 20,5 x 28 cm (Blatt), 18,3 x 26,0 cm (Darstellung / Einfassungslinie), 19,5 x 26,8 cm (Platte).Bartsch 10. Blatt mit drei vertikalen Knickspuren und vereinzelt schwach fleckig. Eher mäßig guter Zustand.James Gillray (1757 Chelsea - 1815 London). Britischer Karikaturist und Radierer. Ab 1778 studierte er an der Royal Academy of Arts. Ab 1782 veröffentlichte er fast ausschließlich Karikaturen zum aktuellen politischen Geschehen. Vertrieben wurden seine Arbeiten von Printshops und Hannah Humphrey, der Schwester des Grafikers William Humphrey. Rechts unten signiert: J.s Gillray, inv.t & fec.t, datiert und Verlegeradresse J. Wright . Piccadilly. Unterhalb der Darstellung betitelt. 20,5 x 28 cm (Blatt), 18,3 x 26,0 cm (Darstellung / Einfassungslinie), 19,5 x 26,8 cm (Platte).