Sad Sloppy Weather
James Gillray, 1808.
A framed and mounted, hand coloured engraving by the Georgian satirist James Gilray depicting a prosperous, elderly gentleman walking along a soggy pavement past mean dwellings after a rain shower.
Holding a closed and reversed umbrella as a walking-stick he examines his white stockings as they become soiled with the filth of the poorly paved street.
£400
In stock
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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