You are not Cruikshank
David Bromwich: Gillray’s Mischief, 21 September 2023
James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire
by Tim Clayton.
Yale, 400 pp., £50, November 2022,978 1 913107 32 1 Show More
by Tim Clayton.
Yale, 400 pp., £50, November 2022,
Uproar! Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
by Alice Loxton.
Icon, 397 pp., £25, March,978 1 78578 954 0 Show More
by Alice Loxton.
Icon, 397 pp., £25, March,
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps and Spectres
by Joseph Monteyne.
Toronto, 301 pp., £49.99, June 2022,978 1 4875 2774 7 Show More
by Joseph Monteyne.
Toronto, 301 pp., £49.99, June 2022,
“... Tim Clayton’s book is a magisterial study of a great popular artist: a full-scale interpretation of James Gillray’s output of satirical prints, and a biography that warrants comparison with the best ever done on an 18th-century artist. It has been furnished with gorgeous reproductions, along with close-ups that illuminate Gillray’s care for visual detail and his uninhibited verbal wit ... ”
