Gillray's Works
Printsellers/Publishers
Honi. Soit. Qui. Mal. Y. Pense [Detail] [1821]
© Trustees of the British Museum
We are accustomed to think of Gillray working almost exclusively with Hannah Humphrey and indeed eventually living above her shop as a boarder at 27 St. James's Street. And it is certainly true that Gillray worked much of his active career for Mrs. Humphrey or other members of the Humphrey family. But, especially while he was making his name in the business, Gillray created prints—satiric and otherwise— for a surprisingly wide variety of publishers. Sometimes a print would appear with a small publisher and then, perhaps because it was popular, be taken over by a larger publisher. An especially crude example is the print Anticipation, or, The Approaching Fate of the French Commerical Treaty (1787) which first appears in a non-colored version publshed by a Mrs. Jackson, at Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square. A colored version is then published by William Holland literally crossing out Mrs. Jackson's name and address and supplying his own beneath it.
What follows is a list of the publishers Gillray worked for. I include their names and addresses, the number of prints Gillray created for them, and (when there are multiple prints) a representative sample of the titles created for each.
BTW: The best source of information about the print and publishing culture in the long 18th century is Mathew Crowther's The Printshop Window.
| Printseller & Address |
No. of Prints | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| J. Aitken 14 Castle Street Leicester Square |
18 | Mendoza (1788) Cooling the Brain, or The Little Major Shaving the Shaver (1789) The Accomodating Spouse. Tyr-nn-es Delight!... (1789) Shakespeare Sacrificed, or The Offering to Avarice (1789) Lord Chancellor Thurlow (1789) Mr Edwin in the Crusade (1790) Scotch Harry's News, or Nincumpoop in High Glee (1792) |
| C. Atkinson Mark Lane |
1 | The V__ Committee Framing a Report (1782) |
| W. Brown Unknown |
1 | A Warm Birth for the Old Administration (1782) |
| J. Browning Oxford Street |
1 | Dame Rat, and Her Poor Little Ones (1782) |
| E. D'Archery No. 11 St. James's Street |
13 | Britannia's Assassination, or the Republicans Amusement (1782) Rodney Triumphant, or Admiral Lee-Shore in the Dumps (1782) Malagrida & Conspiritors, Consulting the Ghost of Oliver Cromwell (1782) Rodney Invested, or Admiral Pig...(1782) Ahithophel in the Dumps (1782) The Jubilee (1782) Judge Thumb, or Patent Sticks for Family Correction (1782) The Nabob Rumbled or a Lord Advocate's Amusement (1783) |
| Mary & Matthew Darly [39] Strand |
2 | Prattle, the Political Apothecary [?] (1779) Bumbardinian. Conferring upon State Affairs with One in Office (1780) |
| S.W. Fores 3 Piccadilly |
49 | Ancient Music (1787) Dido Forsaken. Sic Transit Gloria Reginae (1787) Monstrous Craws at a New Coalition Feast (1787) A March to the Bank (1787) Amsterdam in a Damn'd Predicament... (1787) Blood on Thunder Fording the Red Sea (1788) The Westminster Hunt (1788) Market Day (1788) The Funeral Procession of Miss Regency (1789) Bandelures (1791) The Impeachment, or The Father of the Gang Turn'd Kings Evidence (1791) A Birmingham Toast, as given on the 14th July by the Revolution Society (1791) |
| John Harris Sweetings Alley, Cornhill |
1 | Monsieur le Comte de Grasse (1782) |
| John Hatchard No. 190 Piccadilly |
1 | The Arms of France (1803) |
| William Holland 66 Drury Lane (1783-86) 50 Oxford Street (1786-88) |
15 | Apollo and the Muses Inflicting Penance on Dr Pomposo round Parnassus (1783) Wife & No Wife, or a Trip to the Continent (1786) The Morning after Marriage, or a Scene on the Continent (1786) The Political Banditti Assailing the Saviour of India (1786) A Sale of English Beauties in the East-Indies (1786) The Prince's Bow [?] (1788) |
| Mrs. Holt No. 111 Oxford Street |
1 | Sawney in the Bog-House (1779) |
| S. Hooper 25 Ludgate Hill |
Ecce! (1782) | |
| G. Humphrey 48 Long Acre |
5 | The Coalition/Junction of Parties Re-named (1782) Black Dick Turn'd Taylor (1788) Flemish Characters (1793) A Barbers Shop in Assize Time (1818) |
| H. Humphrey 18 Old Bond Street [1779-1783] 51 New Bond Street [1783-1795] 37 New Bond Street [1795-1797] 27 St James's Street [1797-1817] |
648 | Politeness (1779) [Lady (Mount) Edgcumbe] (1780) Signor Puppy. First Catgut Scraper 1781) Banco to the Knave (1782) Neither War nor Peace! The Astonishing Coalition (1783) Paille d'Avoine, Paille d'Avoine (1786) La Belle Assemblee (1787) Wouski (1788) The Vulture of the Constitution (1789) Lieut Goverr Gall-Stone, Inspired by Alecto, or the Birth of Minerva (1790) The Rights of Man, or Tommy Paine, the Little American Taylor... (1791) A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper (1792) A View in Perspective. The Zenith of French Glory. The Pinnacle of Liberty (1793) The Noble Sans-Culotte (1794) Light Expelling Darkness (1795) Lady Godina's Rout, or Peeping Tom Spying Out Pope Joan (1796) Push-Pin (1797) The Apotheosis of Hoche (1798) Egyptian Sketches (1799) Democracy, or a Sketch of the Life of Buonaparte (1800) The Union Club (1801) The Cow-Pock, or the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation! (1802) The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver (1803) Brisk-Cathartic (1804) The Plumb-Pudding in Danger, or State Epicures taking un Petit Souper (1805) Making Decent, i.e. Broad-bottomites Getting into the Grand Costume (1806) The Fall of Icarus (1807) Very Slippy Weather (1808) The Life of William Cobbett, written by himself (1809) "A Little Music " or the Delights of Harmony (1810) Old Q (1811) |
| W. Humphrey Gerrard Street, Soho [1775-1777] 227 Strand [1778-1782] Lancaster Court |
127 | Six-Pence a Day (1775) Pro Bono Publico and his Lady (1776) The Death of Rochester (1777) The Captain's So Kind (1777) Grace before Meat, or a Peep at Lord Peter's (1778) Squire Thomas Just Arrived (1778) The Church Militant (1779) The State Tinkers (1780) The Dutchman in the Dumps (1781) Sir Richard Worse-Than-Sly Exposing His Wife's Bottom... (1782) A New Administration, or the State Quacks Administring (1783) Ahithophel in the Dumps (1785) |
| Mrs. E. Jackson Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square |
1 | Andrew Robinson Bowes Esqr. as He Appeared in the Court of Kings Bench... (1786) Anticipation, or The Approaching Fate of the French Commerical Treaty (1787) |
| J. Jarvis Richmond Buildings |
1 | Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (1787) |
| P.J. Leatherhead Possibly Fictitious |
1 | The Kettle Hooting the Porridge (1782) |
| T. Macklin No. 39 Fleet Street |
2 | Sophia, Honour & the Chambermaid (1780) Jones, Partridge and the Cripple (1780) |
| C. Morgan Holles Street Cavendish-Square |
1 | The Injured Count, S |
| S.J. Neale No. 352 near Exeter 'change, Strand |
1 | General Murray (1782) |
| R. Phillips Southwarke |
3 | The Minister Endeavoring to Eke Out Dr Pr*ty***n's Bisho-Prick (1787) A Noble Lord, on an Approching Peace, Too Busy to Attend to the Expenditure of a Million of Public Money (1787) The Board of Controul, or the Blessings of a Scotch Dictator *(1787) |
| W. Renegal Unknown |
1 | Argus (1780) |
| W. Rennie Unknown |
1 | Old Wisdom Blinking at the Stars (1782) |
| William Richardson No. 403 Strand (1777) No. 174 near Surry Street Strand (1783) |
1 | The Country Politicians (1777) The Fox and Stork [?] (1783) |
| James Ridgeway 196 Piccadilly |
1 | Westminster School, or Dr. Busby Settling Accounts... (1785) |
| M. Smith No. 46 Fleet Street |
1 | The Irish Patriots (1783) |
| T. Trotter Various locations/Westminster |
1 | Love in a Coffin (1784) |
| S. Vivares No. 13, Great Newport Street |
3 | L'Enfant Trouve (1785) The Tender Mother (1787) The Happy Mother (1787) |
| W. Wells 132 Fleet Street? |
1 | Returning from Brooks's [?] (1784) |
| R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill? 20 Strand |
18 | The Sinking Fund [?] (1779) [Portrait of Haidar Ali] (1781) The Return (1781) Remorse (1783) The Village Train (1784) The Deserted Village (1784) The Nancy Packet (1784) The Duke of Athol East Indiaman (1785) |
| J. Williams No. 227 Strand (William Humphrey's address) |
1 | A Sun Setting in a Fog; with the Old Hanover Hack Descending (1783) |
| John Wright 169 Piccadilly |
3 | A Peep into the Cave of Jacobinism (1798) Councellor Ego, i.e. Little I, Myself I (1798) Two Pair of Portraits (1798 |