James Gillray

"A Meeting of the Monied Interest - Constitutional Opposition to the 10pr Cent - John Bull's Friends Alarmed by the New Tax

Handcolored aquatint etching

We believe that his is most likely a reprint of Gillray's work from the London und Paris newsletter which was published in Germany during Gillray's lifetime.

18th Century Anti-Tax protest

According to the National Portrait Gallery which has a copy of the original of this print in it collection, the personalities shown include: Sir William Pulteney; Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings; George Walpole; Sir John Sinclair, 1st Bt; George Tierney; John Horne Tooke; Michael Angelo Taylor; and Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope.

James Gillray (1756-1815) was the leading English caricaturist of his time. After studying at the Royal Academy under Francesco Bartolozzi he attempted to set himself up as a portrait painter but was unable to earn a living at it and turned to producing engravings to support himself.

James Gillray was a conservative - a supporter of William Pitt and the Tories, and his engravings were critical of the Whigs and of the Radicals.

Gillray's work was recently the subject of an exhbitition at London's Tate Gallery.

Dimensions: 10.5 X 8.25 inches

Condition: Three creases - probably original. Some light discoloration.

 

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