A Calm
James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1810
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
260 x 360 mm
Order this imageCollection
Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 792118
Summary
Print, engraving, A Calm by James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815). 1810, etching with aquatint in a gilt frame. Published by H. Humphrey, St James Street, London. A sea-side scene on a hot day. The centre figure is a tall young woman, in a muslin dress with bare arms and neck, holding an open parasol and a patterned scarf. A fat 'cit' trudges along, much distressed; he mops his bald head, holding his hat with his wig inside it. A family party, forbidding and censorious, is grouped on the left, with a panting dog. In the middle distance are the sands with pedestrians fashionably dressed, and a barefooted fisher-boy with a net. Bathing-machines are in the sea, with tiny figures in the water; another with a horse is about to enter the water.
Makers and roles
James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815), artist Hannah Humphrey (c.1745-1818), artist