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Gillray

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Gillray
James. 1757--1815, English caricaturist


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Works are included by a large number of British artists, with Ford Madox Brown, James Gillray, Paul Nash, and William Blake among those receiving more lengthy treatment as examples of certain descriptive themes.
The Pop art sexiness is deliberately tempered by a depth-charge of 18th-century earthiness recalling the satire of Gillray.
The collection includes an engraving by Gillray of Pitt the Younger as a fungus growing from a murky dunghill, and a few steps down the corridor from Mendoza's painting of the sublimated Commons hangs an apocalyptic vista of the same room by Gerald Scarfe.
 
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