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...Gillray's works the Library has the largest collection existing; it includes several hundred copies, many of them the original color-and-ink drawings. About a dozen are now on exhibition...
...Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room at present contains selections from one of the Library's most interesting historical collections, the cartoons of James Gillray...
Born in 1757, Gillray soon developed remarkable ability at caricaturing, and before his death in 1815 had come to wield perhaps a more powerful influence than any other Britisher not directly affiliated with a political party. His cartoons touched every possible matter of public interest; and as he lived in a period of fast-occurring and momentous events, to follow his sketches is to learn the history of the times...