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"The Works of James Gillray from the Original Plates with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected"

published by Henry G. Bohn, London
written by Charles Whiting

(1847-1851)

Original Copperplate Engravings/Etchings over 170 years old

Full Sheet Size: approximately 19 x 24.75 inches (about 48 x 63 cm)
Half Sheet Size: approximately 9.5 x 12.25 inches (about 24 x 31 cm)
(trimmed from full sheet)

Image size varies from engraving to engraving. Most, but not all, plates have engravings on both sides of the sheet, as published by Bohn.

Click here for contemporary (1851) descriptions and analyses of the cartoons by James Gillray

Click here for the index to subjects in James Gillray's cartoons

Antique James Gillray prints home

Antique and Vintage Humor and Satire prints
   

Les Plaisirs du MénageGrace Before Meat; or, a Peep at Lord Peter's

Plates 367-368
(Side 1)


Les Plaisirs du Ménage


Grace Before Meat; or, a Peep at Lord Peter's

Gillray prints: The German Dancing Master Regardez Moi

Plates 369-370
(Side 2)


The German Dancing Master


Regardez Moi

$75

Source: Historical & Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray; Comprising A Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third

by Thomas Wright, Esq., F.S.A. and R. H. Evans, Esq.

Published: London, Henry G. Bohn, 1851
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Antique and Vintage Humor and Satire prints