Manager & Spouter
Medium
Hand-colored etching, stipple and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 11 15/16 × 13 9/16 in. (30.4 × 34.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.888-22
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
S. W. Fores|Samuel Alken|Thomas Rowlandson|David Garrick|Henry Wigstead · 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...