Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

J T *

Subjects:

Meteorology, Heat, Pneumatics, Instruments, Comparative Philology

    A comment on the swelteringly hot summer of 1868, showing Mr Punch as the greatly perspiring 'Clerk of the Weather'—dressed in a chequered suit, holding a barometer in one hand and a parasol in the other. He raises his parasol as if to strike St Swithun, who rests near some rocks, a watering can standing by his side.