Gillray

Proper noun

Meaning

Gillray (plural Gillrays)

A surname.

Examples

1802 satirical cartoon by James Gillray showing a Royal Institution lecture on pneumatics, with Davy holding the bellows and Count Rumford looking on at extreme right. Source: Internet

Daniel Walker Howe, The American Whigs: An Anthology (1973) Two-party system In A Block for the Wigs (1783), caricaturist James Gillray caricatured Fox's return to power in a coalition with North. Source: Internet

Nonetheless, belief in the existence of a "rule of thumb" law to excuse spousal abuse can be traced as far back as 1782, the year that James Gillray published his satirical cartoon Judge Thumb. Source: Internet

The pictorial satire of William Hogarth is a precursor to the development of political cartoons in 18th-century England. citation The medium developed under the direction of its greatest exponent, James Gillray from London. Source: Internet

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