# Dublures of Characters [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GILLRAY, James]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Etching and engraving, 235 x 327 mm ## Commentary The Swiss Jean Gaspard Lavater published the Essays on Physiognomy which was translated and illustrated by Fuseli. This publication attempted to bring some order to the contemporary theory that external facial or cranial formation revealed the character. It was a direct parody of Lavater that the greatest London caricaturist, James Gillray designed his plate Dublures of Characters in 1798, alluding to the allegedly sinister revolutionary motives of the radical politician Charles James Fox and his friends in the Whig party by depicting them with their grotesque doubles, the 'Arch Fiend', Judas, or the drunken Silenus. ## Related artworks - [Long Live the Constitution, One and In\(di\)visible]() - [Sin, Death and the Devil]() - [The Blood of the Murdered Crying for Vengeance]() - [The Plum-Pudding in Danger]() - [The Zenith of French Glory]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()