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The Explanation Wall Art
ART BY: James Gillray
The Explanation Wall Art
ART BY: James Gillray
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About this artwork
The Explanation is a hand-colored etching on paper by James Gillray (1756–1815). The artist is catalogued as English. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 3000 × 2105 px (2.3 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Neoclassicism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 378 works by James Gillray, a British artist.
James Gillray was an English caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Many of his works are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by James Gillray →
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