"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...
An elegantly dressed young woman is seated in an armchair facing right reading a letter. The room is richly carpeted and furnished, with striped upholstery on the furniture and matching draperies. Through the window is visible a winter scene with ice ...
Description:
Title from manuscript inscription on mount.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ice skating, Reading, Rugs, Draperies, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
