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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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James Gillray
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(1756–1815) English political caricaturist, with a savagery of attack and a freedom of etched line that have rarely been equalled. His most famous targets were *George III (whom he ridiculed as the boorish Farmer George) and the prime minister, William *Pitt. For much of his life Gillray lived and worked above the shop in St James's Street where his publisher, Mrs Humphrey, sold his prints. Crowds would gather on the pavement to buy straight from the press his up-to-the-minute satires on the political scene.
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