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Gillray, James, 1756-1815

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Personal name headingGillray, James, 1756-1815
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Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date17560813
Death date1815
Place of birthChelsea (London, England)
Field of activityCaricature--Great Britain
Profession or occupationCartoonists Printmakers
Found inCarlyle, E. I. William Cobbett, 1904: p. xi (caricatures of Cobbett ... by Gillray ... and H.B. (John Doyle))
Katanka, M. Gillray and Cruikshank, 1973: p. 7 (Gillray was born in London on August 13th, 1756 ... )
Fashionable contrasts, 1966: p. 183 (1756 ... Birth of Gillray)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Gillray, James, 1757-1815, per DNB and Art index Oct. 1947-Oct. 1950; gives also Hill, D. Mr. Gillray the caricaturist, 1965: b. 13 Aug. 1756 in Chelsea, "dates often inaccurate")
James Gillray, 2022, ©2022: title page (James Gillray) pages 15-19 (b. 13 August 1756 in Chelsea near the Robin Hood Tavern, baptised in the Moravian Chapel in Fetter Lane, London, he was the only child survived in childhood among his other four siblings; learned engraving maps as a young trainee during 1770s) pages 27 (in 1777 he began as a caricaturist) page 335 (health in declined started 1808, died in 1815)