The smoaker [graphic]

Description

Title: The smoaker [graphic]
Alternative Title: Smoker
Creator: Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker
Contributor: Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: Half-length portrait of a man with mustache and beard wearing in an artist's cap, looking left, with a pipe in his hand and smoke rising from his mouth
Description: Title engraved below image.
Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792 . See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers, p. 31.
Plate numbered '161' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Michael Finney; July 1999;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 14.8 x 11.4 cm, on sheet 18 x 13.6 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.