Making the most of a passing-friend in a case of emergency! [graphic].

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Title: Making the most of a passing-friend in a case of emergency! [graphic].
Alternative Title: Elements of skateing
Elements of skateing :
Elements 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: "A man who is falling through the ice clutches desperately at the leg of a passing skater so as to drag him towards the hole he has made. From the edge of the ice (r.) projects a post with a notice-board: 'Humane Society - Whereas this Pond is very deep & dangerous, it is requested that no persons will rashly venture to Skait upon it.'"--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 25.5 x 36.3 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.
Watermarks (Paper)--J Whatman.--CtY-LW
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10477
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 543
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 326