My new favorite artist is James Gillray, a caricaturist who was one of the great satirists in British history. Working in the late 1700s and early 1800s, the rather solitary Gillray made engravings that savaged all the customary targets: parliamentarians like Pitt and Fox; the royal family, especially George III; the French, especially Napoleon; and high society in general, not excepting my beloved Nelson and his mistress Lady Hamilton. Gillray had great verve and style; sometimes his sketches remind me of Dr. Seuss, but almost always with a delicious edge. On eBay I found a dealer in Britain who was selling prints from a disbound edition of Gillray’s works from 1818, and bought three, including the one above, which shows the King and his ministers dreaming of a Napoleon in bondage. Gillray: my new enthusiasm.