Sir Samuel House [graphic].

Description

Title: Sir Samuel House [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
House, Samuel,--d. 1785--Caricatures and cartoons.
Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, publisher.
Published / Created: 1781 July 12
Copyright Date: [12 July 1781]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: C. Knight, Berwick Street
Abstract: "Portrait (whole-length) of Sam House seated in an arm-chair, a wineglass in his right hand, his left hand on his hip. At his right side, on a small rectangular table, is a punch-bowl inscribed "Fox for eve[r]". He is in his well-known dress, see BMSat 5696, &c, and wears ungartered stockings."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue. Also attributed to Charles Knight; see British Museum online catalogue.
Text below title: Libertas et natule [sic] solum.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : stipple engraving & aquatint with etching on laid paper, à la poupée ; plate mark 22.7 x 18.0 cm, on sheet 23.3 x 18.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: A la poupée prints--England--London--1781.
Aquatints--England--London--1781.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1781.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1781.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
House, Samuel,--d. 1785--Caricatures and cartoons.
Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, publisher.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5876
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 32