Elements of Skateing. Attitude! Attitude is every thing!
Book Description
Etching and aquatint with original hand-colouring, on wove paper, trimmed to the washed border lines, mounted at edges only to a support sheet forming new margins, otherwise in good bright condition, [BM Satires 10474].
Dealer Notes
One of a group of four social satires depicting the comical manners and mishaps of the winter pastime of skating. This scene depicts an encounter between two heavily caricatured figures, one stout, in a short spencer jacket, completes a curve in the ice with hands on hips and one foot raised, the toe and his disapproving glare aimed squarely at the other figure, younger and slimmer, in a tail-coat, bending his knees with his arms outstretched, and a nervous grin on his face. In the bleak, wintery, background two gentlemen skate gracefully in formation, while another races across the ice.
Author
Gillray (James)
Date
1805
Publisher
Hannah Humphrey
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