A fundamental error in the art of skaiting [graphic].

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Title: A fundamental error in the art of skaiting [graphic].
Alternative Title: Elements of skateing
Elements of skateing :
Elements of skating :
Fundamental error in the art of skating
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1805 November 24
Copyright Date: [24 November 1805]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "One man falls violently, arms and legs in the air; he brings the ferrule of his stick heavily down on the eye of a neighbour who has just landed on his posterior, his legs and arms extended. In the background three other skaters have fallen, and lie or sit, legs in the air."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing.
Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image, following series title.
Extent: 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.3 x 35.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1805.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1805.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10476
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 542
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 326