Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Sad sloppy weather / etch'd by Js Gillray.

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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]
etching, hand colored
sheet: 251 x 202 mm, trimmed to image size
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.642
Notes
One of a series of seven prints by Gillray regarding the weather, (BMSat 11094-100), all with the same signature and imprint.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

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.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department