"Skaters have fallen upon breaking ice, some lie flat; heads and legs and arms emerge in wild confusion. In the middle distance (right) two skaters, one a parson, flee headlong from the danger-spot. On the shore (left) three men stand watching the cat...
Alternative Title:
Cold broth and calamity
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, England, Ice skating, Skaters, and Marquees
"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.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"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.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"An elderly man with his hat tied over his ears and his right hand plunged deep in his coat-pocket walks (left to right) in a wintry landscape, across ice or snow. A flying demon, 'Jacky Frost', nips his nose between finger and thumb; he has webbed wi...
"Two men skating, one of them holding an umbrella that hits the other on the nose, his hat falling on a hole on the ice to the right and he's about to fall on his back; in the right background two men pulling another on skates."--British Museum online...
"Four men skating, colliding with each other in a mangle, one of them about to fall head first into a whole in the ice, holding a man's skate with his right hand and another's coat with his left, his right foots hitting the man who's coat he is holdin...
