Dreadful-hot-weather [graphic] / etch'd by Js. Gillray.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[10 February 1808]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.3 x 21.5 cm

Notes:

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.
CtY-LW
Temporary local subject terms: Seasons: Summer.

Abstract:

"A fat 'cit' halts on the road beside a milestone on which he has hung his hat, to mop his dripping forehead. In his left hand is his wig. His waistcoat is unbuttoned. Against the stone, inscribed 'One Mile from..', leans his gold-headed cane. He stands on a sandy hill, the focus of rays striking almost vertically down, and is beset by flies. Though only fields are visible culminating in a mound on which stands a windmill, he is evidently on his way to a Sunday Ordinary close to London, a favourite theme, cf. BMSat 8405."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1808.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1808.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

808.02.10.02
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11

Orbis Record:

8802820

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr10992

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11095
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 360
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 554

OID:

15814096

PID:

digcoll:2783107