Very slippy-weather [graphic] / etch'd by Js. Gillray.

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Title: Very slippy-weather [graphic] / etch'd by Js. Gillray.
Alternative Title: St. James's Street
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Humphrey, Hannah,--active 1774-1817.
Published / Created: 1808 February 10
Copyright Date: [10 February 1808]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: In front of Humphrey's print shop window, a man sits on the pavement, having fallen backwards; his legs are splayed up, his wig is falling off, and coins spill from his pockets. The man's predicament is unobserved by four men studying the Gillray prints displayed in the shop window, each identifiable: a gentleman with a quizzing glass held to his eye; a military officer; a coachman; and a young dustman carrying a pair of skates under his arm, his nose eaten away by syphilis. From the cobblestone street a dog looks at the man. Through the shop door, two men, one an obese cleric, are shown examining a print.
Description: One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored, ; sheet 27 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1808.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1808.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Humphrey, Hannah,--active 1774-1817.
Subject (Topic): City & town life.
Clergy.
Coach drivers.
Falling.
Merchandise displays--England--London--1800-1810.
Military officers--British.
Older people.
People associated with commercial & service activities.
Printing industry--England--London--1800-1810.
Prints.
Stores & shops.
Syphilis.
Thermometers.
Weather.
Window displays.

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. 11100
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 559
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 360