Minneapolis Institute of Art
Very Slippy Weather
James Gillray; Publisher: Mrs. Hannah HumphreyLinkedCulture matchlcp-bd9e9feb6e70
- Date
- February 10, 1808
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching, verso, black and white
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 75868
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
From a series of prints about the weather, Gillray's Very Slippy Weather features the print shop of his exclusive publisher, Hannah Humphrey, at 27 St. James's Street, where Gillray lived and kept a studio. Among Mrs. Humphrey's clients was the Prince of Wales, himself the target of a number of devastating caricatures by Gillray. The prince nonetheless bought 121 prints from Humphrey's shop in one year. No one was spared ridicule in Gillray's world. Here his regular clientele is amusingly scorned, portrayed rather grotesquely gawking at the prints displayed in the shop window while a round clergyman inside considers purchasing an anti-papist print Gillray had executed a few years prior. England, Europe
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- Credit line
- The Minnich Collection The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, 1966
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