H Beard Print Collection

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Artist/Maker	Argus (artist) Williams (etcher) Knight, C. (publisher)
Place of origin	London (published)

Print entitled 'The Effect of Whitbreads Entire or Wha Want a Guinea'. The pint shows Whitbread standing outside his ale house tankard in hand. William Pitt leans against the ale house in ill health whist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Charles James Fox collect the guineas being purged from a vomiting Viscount Melville. Published in London by C. Knight.

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Categories	Entertainment & Leisure Prints
Object type	Print
Title	H Beard Print Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques	hand coloured etching cut within the plate, ink and wash on paper Paper Printing Ink Wash Print-Making Painting Hand-Colouring Etching (Corroding)
Brief description	Print entitled 'The Effect of Whitbreads Entire or Wha Want a Guinea'. Published in Lambeth by C. Knight and in London by Sobel in May 1805, Harry Beard Collection.
Physical description	Etched and hand coloured print entitled 'The Effect of Whitbreads Entire or Wha Want a Guinea'.
Dimensions	Print size height: 29.8cm Print size width: 47.2cm
Subjects depicted	Satire Caricature Dundas, Henry (1st Viscount Melville) Pitt, William (The Younger) Whitbread, Samuel Fox, Charles James Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Summary	Print entitled 'The Effect of Whitbreads Entire or Wha Want a Guinea'. The pint shows Whitbread standing outside his ale house tankard in hand. William Pitt leans against the ale house in ill health whist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Charles James Fox collect the guineas being purged from a vomiting Viscount Melville. Published in London by C. Knight.
Other number	F.117-54 - H Beard collection numbering
Collection	Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number	S.4641-2009

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Record created	September 9, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1136781/h-beard-print-collection-print-argus/

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