Highlights include James
Gillray's muchimitated Fashionable Contrasts (1792), an outrageously provocative satire that summons thoughts of the utmost vulgarity, entirely through the size and angle of two pairs of shoes.
The highlight was the flat iron steak, a butcher's cut that has recently come into fashion and went well with the
Gillray's own-brand beer and simple triple cooked chips.
Gillray's savage representation of the Prince of Wales, later George lV, in "Voluptuary, under the horror of Indigestion" shows the well-stuffed royal heir surrounded by the litter of his excess -- empty bottles of port and brandy, an overflowing chamber pot, a coat of arms with crossed knife and fork and a scattering of horse racing betting slips.
By turning our attention away from bound volumes of poetry to the periodical press, we find that the vibrant culture of pre-1820s satire associated with
Gillray, Byron and Rowlandson continued in 1830s Scotland.
The Twins see themselves inline with artists like
Gillray who satirically critiqued the goings-on of his time.
James
Gillray (1756-1815) was also engaged in political and social satire, and occasionally ventured into the medical world (4).
Crumb, a favorite of Bradley's, is a prime example of an artist who drew on decades of popular art (from James
Gillray to Little Lulu) to arrive at multiple modes of rendering.
In this 1802 engraving, the British satirist James
Gillray caricatured a scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St.
Caption: In this cartoon published in 1802, the British satirist James
Gillray caricatured a scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St.
However, the more profitable aspect of Boydell's scheme was the vast number of prints he produced based on the paintings an enterprise savagely lampooned by the cartoonist James
Gillray with the caption Shakespeare Sacrificed the Offering to Avarice.