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Manager & Spouter

July 1, 1802
Not on view
A stage manager (David Garrick), sits at a table and watches an actor perform a scene from a play. The title punningly compares the effusive performance to steam that issues from an urn on the table, next to tray with cups and a chocolate pot carried by a maid. At the back of the room is a door with an elaborate frame topped with a bust, and large pictures hanging to either side, each representing pairs of figures.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Manager & Spouter
  • Artist: After Henry Wigstead (British, 1745?–1800 Margate)
  • Etcher: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
  • Etcher: Aquatint by Samuel Alken (British, London 1756–1815 London)
  • Publisher: S. W. Fores (London)
  • Subject: David Garrick (British, Hereford 1717–1779 London)
  • Date: July 1, 1802
  • Medium: Hand-colored etching, stipple and aquatint
  • Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed and inlaid): 12 1/2 × 14 3/4 in. (31.8 × 37.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.533.1904
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Manager & Spouter, Henry Wigstead British, Hand-colored etching, stipple and aquatint
Manager & Spouter
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July 1, 1802
An Excursion to Brighthelmstone, made in the year 1789, by Henry Wigstead and Thomas Rowlandson...Embellished with Eight Engravings in Aquatinta, from Views Taken on the Road, to, and at that Place
Multiple artists/makers
1790
Title Page: An Excursion to Brighthelmstone, made in the year 1789, by Henry Wigstead and Thomas Rowlandson, Dedicated (By Permission) to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Embellished with Eight Engravings in Aquatinta, from Views Taken on the Road, to, and at that Place. London. Printed (with the Types of Stephenson's British Letter-Foundry,) for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, M,DCC,XC.
Multiple artists/makers
1790
Manager & Spouter, Henry Wigstead British, Hand-colored etching, stipple and aquatint
Manager & Spouter
Multiple artists/makers
July 1, 1802
Weymouth Bay, David Lucas British, Mezzotint on chine collé; proof before published state
Weymouth Bay
David Lucas
John Constable
1830

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