Dreadful-Hot-Weather

published 1808

James Gillray

Artist, British, 1757 - 1815

Hannah Humphrey

Publisher, British, c.1745 - 1818

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored etching and engraving on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Arcana Foundation

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.7 x 20.7 cm (10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.6 x 21.1 cm (10 7/8 x 8 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.51.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wright and Evans 1851, no. 554

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Associated Artworks

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Delicious Weather

James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey

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Windy Weather

James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey

1808

Very Slippy Weather

James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey

1808

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q75398115

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