Ancient Music, Monarchs...
London: S.W. Fores Piccadilly, 1847. Notes: Bohn edition of Gillray's vivid caricature.
James Gillray (1756 – 1815), was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Gillray's incomparable wit and humour, knowledge of life, fertility of resource, keen sense of the ludicrous, and beauty of execution, at once gave him the first place among caricaturists. He is honourably distinguished in the history of caricature by the fact that his sketches are real works of art. The ideas embodied in some of them are sublime and poetically magnificent in their intensity of meaning, while the forthrightness—which some have called coarseness—which others display is characteristic of the general freedom of treatment common in all intellectual departments in the 18th century. The historical value of Gillray's work has been recognized by many discerning students of history. As has been well remarked: "Lord Stanhope has turned Gillray to account as a veracious reporter of speeches, as well as a suggestive illustrator of events.", Image Size : 410x540 (mm), 16.14x21.26 (Inches), Platemark Size : 425x554 (mm), 16.73x21.81 (Inches), Paper Size : 480x630 (mm), 18.90x24.80 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Aquatint with etching, Categories: Caricatures;. Very Good. Item #P3676
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