A framed and mounted, hand coloured engraving by the Georgian satirist James Gilray depicting a sour faced, skinny gentleman walking along a country road on a raw, dry, freezing, winters day.

Wrapping his coat close against the biting cold he grimaces in discomfort.

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.