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James Gillray
1756-1815
Sad sloppy weather / etch'd by Js Gillray.
London : Publish'd February 10th 1808, by H Humphrey, 27, St James's Street, [1808]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.642
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London : Publish'd February 10th 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27, St James's Street, [1808]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Notes:
One of a series of seven prints by Gillray regarding the weather, (BMSat 11094-100), all with the same signature and imprint.
Summary:
Print shows a stout, elderly, well-dressed man walking along a pavement past a ramshackle hovel, holding a closed umbrella, which he uses as a walking-stick. He steps on a stone which tilts, splashing his white stockings with filth. From a rotten pipe which runs down the adjacent building a black flood drips and streams across the pavement. From an (invisible) upper window hang ragged garments, dripping down the wall. Broken crockery and refuse lie against the edge of the pavement.
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