Fine Bracing Weather

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Artist/Maker	James Gillray (artist) Hannah Humphrey (Publisher)
Place of origin	London (published)

Etching print with hand colouring

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Categories	Caricatures & Cartoons Prints
Object type	Print
Title	Fine Bracing Weather (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Etching, coloured by hand
Brief description	Print, 'Fine Bracing Weather' by James Gillray 1808
Physical description	Etching print with hand colouring
Dimensions	Height: 26.3cm (sheet size) Width: 21.2cm (sheet size)
Marks and inscriptions	London published Fby 10th 1808 by H Humphrey. 27 St James's Street Etchd by Js Gillray
Credit line	Bequeathed by John Jones
Object history	Object originally bound in a guard-book containing one hundred and fifteen caricatures by T. Rowlandson, W. Heath, J. Gillray, R. Dighton, G. Cruikshank and others
Subjects depicted	Ice Skating Cold
Bibliographic references	George, Mary Dorothy, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VII 1801-1810 British Museum, London, 1947. The Grotesque Factor Malaga: Museo Picasso, 2012. ISBN: 9788494024917.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	1232:46-1882

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Record created	June 8, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O248152/fine-bracing-weather-print-james-gillray/

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