Fine bracing weather [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Fine bracing weather [graphic]
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [10 February 1808]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Abstract
-
"A stout man skates towards the spectator, making curves on very cracked ice. Behind are snow-covered hills. Wild geese fly across the sky."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
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.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.6 x 20.7 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 24.2 cm.
Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 11 of 12. - Provenance
- From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 24.5 x 19.5 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Ice skating
Winter - Subjects
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Ice skating
Winter
England > 1808
England > London > 1808
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- 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.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 8802923
- Object ID (OID)
- 11861203
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