At that time, the sight of an able-bodied adult male carrying an umbrella for himself in an english city or town hadn't entirely shed the connotations of excessive dandyism or effeminacy which it had earlier in the eighteenth century. Date: 1782. Dimensions: height: 222 mm (8.74 in); width: 174 mm (6.85 in). Medium: hand-coloured etching. Collection: National Portrait Gallery. A meeting of umbrellas by James Gillray
