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Very Slippy Weather

Print
1808 (published)
Artist/Maker
Gillray (artist)
Hannah Humphrey (publisher)
Place of origin
London (made)

A print depicting a man slipping on ice outside a shop on St James' street, London. In the window of the shop are displaying several of Gillray's prints. A crowd is gathered around the window and they have not noticed the gentleman slipping on the cobbled street. The fallen man is holding large thermometer in his left hand and has lost the contents from his pockets and his hat and wig.

Object details

Categories
Caricatures & Cartoons
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleVery Slippy Weather (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching, coloured by hand
Brief description
Print, 'Very Slippy Weather' by James Gillray 1808
Physical description
A print depicting a man slipping on ice outside a shop on St James' street, London. In the window of the shop are displaying several of Gillray's prints. A crowd is gathered around the window and they have not noticed the gentleman slipping on the cobbled street. The fallen man is holding large thermometer in his left hand and has lost the contents from his pockets and his hat and wig.
Dimensions
  • 26.1 height: cm (sheet size)
  • Width: 20.5cm (sheet size)
Content description
The shop depicted in the print is that of Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's publisher, on St James's Street.
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
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. ....One of a set of seven plates by Gillray. All are from drawings by Sneyd sent to Gillray in Nov. 1807, when he was beginning to fail in health...
  • The Grotesque Factor Malaga: Museo Picasso, 2012. ISBN: 9788494024917.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
1232:44-1882

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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