Fine bracing weather [graphic]

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

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: Ice skating
Winter
England > 1808
England > London > 1808
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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