Fine bracing 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 24.5 x 19.5 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: Winter.

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.

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:

808.02.10.04
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11

Orbis Record:

8802923

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr10994

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11098
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. 557

OID:

15814098

PID:

digcoll:2783114