Sad Sloppy Weather, published 1808

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series Title

The Weather

Medium

hand-colored etching and engraving on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.7 x 20.6 cm (10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.)

sheet: 27.4 x 21 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Arcana Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Wright and Evans 1851, no. 555

Accession Number

1996.51.5

Artists / Makers

James Gillray (artist) British, 1757 - 1815

Rev. John Sneyd (artist after) British, 1763 - 1835

Hannah Humphrey (publisher) British, c.1745 - 1818

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: London Publish'd February 10th.1808. by H. Humphrey No. 27. St. James's Street, / SAD SLOPPY WEATHER. / Etch'd by Js. Gillray.

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased by Ladislaus von Hoffmann; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David
von Hoffmann, Ladislaus, Mr.

Bibliography

1851: Wright, Thomas and Robert H. Evans. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray; Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third. London, 1851. Reprint. NY: B. Blom, 1968.