Foggy weather [graphic].

Description

Title: Foggy weather [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 December 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 22d Decr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A stout lady (left), her hands in a muff, cannonades into a fat parson walking in the opposite direction. Behind (right) a rider urges his horse forward; on the left a pedestrian walks into a pond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Plate numbered '144' in lower right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Female costume -- Walking staves -- Signposts.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 25 cm, on sheet 23 x 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Stipple engravings England London 1794
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Muffs
Clergy
Staffs (Sticks).
Horseback riding
Pedestrians
Traffic signs & signals
Subjects: Muffs
Clergy
Staffs (Sticks).
Horseback riding
Pedestrians
Traffic signs & signals
England > 1794
England > London > 1794

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