Two hundred years before internet memes and social media, James Gillray created a visual lie so compelling that it outlived its subject by centuries and spawned an entire psychological framework.

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

If world politics today is changing worlds, it was no less so in late 18th century Britain; there was the American War of Independence, the French Revolution and the changing millennium.

James Gillray, Coloured etching on paper. Published 22 May 1797. William Pitt, the Prime Minister, is picking the coin-filled pockets of an old lady, personifying the Bank, whose dress is made of ...

Yet Chadwick demonstrates “far from being devoid of invention, composition, intellect and originality, printmaking in Britain ...