Delicious Weather
James Gillray, 1808.
A framed and mounted, hand coloured engraving by the Georgian satirist James Gillray. A smartly dressed, rosy cheeked gentleman enjoys a pinch of snuff in the fine summer weather.
£400
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This is one of seven coloured plates by the caricaturist and printmaker and James Gillray, published together by his patron and benefactor Mrs Hannah Humphrey on February 10, 1808. The set includes Delicious Weather, Dreadful-Hot-Weather, Fine Bracing Weather, Raw Weather, Sad Sloppy Weather, Windy Weather and Very Slippy-Weather.
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