James Gillray, an English engraver and caricaturist, born in Chelsea about 1757, died in London, June 1, 1815. He was the son of a Chelsea pensioner, studied in the royal academy, and about 1784 became known as a successful engraver. Between 1779 and 1811 he published 1,200 caricatures, many of which were etched at once upon the copper without the assistance of drawings. The royal family and prominent cabinet ministers and politicians of the day were ridiculed by him without mercy. He died of delirium tremens. His works appeared singly, but a collection of them was published in London in 1830; an edition edited by Bohn in 1851; and a new and complete edition, with a History of his Life and Times," by Thomas Wright, in 1874.