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

(1847-1851)
published by Henry G. Bohn, London
written by Charles Whiting

Original Copperplate Engravings 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

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Antique and Vintage Humor and Satire prints
   

orginal james gillray prints Théologie à Turque Mamaluck et Hussard Republicain

Plates 225-226
(Side 1)


Théologie à Turque – The Pale of the Church of Mahomet

Mamaluck et Hussard Republicain. General result of Buonaparte's attacke upon Ibrahim Bey's rear-guard

Tirailleiur Français et Cheval Leger original gillray prints Supposed to be a Correct Representation

Plates 227-228
(Side 2)


Tirailleiur Français, et Cheval Leger de l'armee du Pacha de Rhodes. Evolutions of French mounted Riflemen

Supposed to be a Correct Representation of a Mamaluke Chief

$150

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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