John Bull Viewing Billy's Preparations for his Birth-day
S. W. Fores|Charles Williams
May 18, 1802
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
sheet: 10 9/16 x 16 3/8 in. (26.9 x 41.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Adele S. Gollin, 1976
Accession Number
1976.602.42
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
SatirePoliticsFoodMen
About the Artist
S. W. Fores|Charles Williams · 1785–1825
**Samuel William Fores (1761–1838), often credited simply as S. W. Fores, was a leading English publisher and printseller whose Piccadilly shop became a landmark during the Golden Age of Georgian caricature.** Born on 8 March 1761, Fores was the son of a cloth merchant and stationer-bookseller. He was apprenticed to his father in 1775 and completed his training in 1782. The following year he esta...