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Samuel Foote

Also known as: Samuel Foote; primary name: Foote, Samuel
Details: individual; actor/entertainer; British; Male
Life dates: 1721-1777
Biography: Actor, playwright and theatre (Haymarket) manager. Native of Truro, for which his father was MP. Squandered a fortune as a student and took to acting and writing satirical pieces for the theatre, including 'The minor'. He lost a leg in 1766 as a result of a practical joke, but continued acting in spite of it.
Bibliography: ODNB

107 related objects

Museum number: CIB.52501 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Attributed to:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1813-1815

Museum number: CIB.52502 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Attributed to:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1813-1815

Museum number: CIB.52504 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Attributed to:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1813-1815

book; print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1864,0213.203-252 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankBlock cut by:John Byfield |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

drawing

Museum number: K,60.17 |
Producer name: BIOG43837 Drawn by:James Roberts II |
Production date: 1776

drawing

Museum number: K,60.10 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770-1800

drawing

Museum number: 1859,0212.19 |
Producer name: BIOG23752 Drawn by:Francis Cotes |
Production date: 1760

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1864,0213.154-202 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankBlock cut by:Mary Byfield |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Foote in the character of Mrs Cole |
Museum number: K,239.28 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1777-1780

print; satirical print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Foote, the devil and Polly Patterns |
Museum number: K,60.28 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1773

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Foote, the devil and Polly Patterns |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10035 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1773

print

Title: Samuel Foote, Esqr. |
Museum number: K,60.7 |
Producer name: BIOG43488 After:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1770-1790

print

Title: Mr F_te; Orator & Mimick |
Museum number: K,60.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Arthur Pond |
Production date: 1738

print

Museum number: 1950,0520.37 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard BrookshawAfter:Francis Cotes |
Production date: 1773

print

Museum number: 1875,0313.62 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard BrookshawAfter:Francis Cotes |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; satirical print; puzzle-picture

Title: Retort upon retort: a satyrical, hieroglyphical, anatomical, critical & comical epistle, from Saml, |
Museum number: 1871,0610.475 |
Producer name: BIOG32729 Published by:Michael Jackson |
Production date: 1760 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Samuel Foote Esqr. |
Museum number: R,10.32 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas BlackmoreAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Foot on the stage and Asses in the pit-or- A new years-piece. |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2124 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac Robert CruikshankPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Mr Weston in the Character of Dr Last, in the Devil upon two Sticks |
Museum number: 1849,0721.30 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPublished by:Harrison & Co |
Production date: 1770s-1800s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Samuel Foote |
Museum number: 1873,0712.688 |
Producer name: Print made by:William GreatbachAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Miss Forde |
Museum number: 1873,0510.952 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas WoolnothAfter:Rose Emma Drummond |
Production date: 1822 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote as Zach Fungus |
Museum number: K,60.22 |
Producer name: Print made by:Garnett TerryPublished by:Harrison & Co |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Foote in the character of the Devil upon two Sticks. Act I |
Museum number: Ee,3.276 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Samuelis Foote Arm Miscuit Utile Dulci |
Museum number: K,60.3 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard Bernard GodfreyAfter:Jean François Gille Colson |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Mayor of Garratt, Jerry Sneak discovering Major Sturgeon with his wife |
Museum number: 1941,1011.17 |
Producer name: After:Henry James RichterPublished by:Henry James Richter |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Samuel Foote, Esqr. |
Museum number: 1868,0822.4927 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublished by:John Hinton |
Production date: 1770-1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Public exposure, or they have put their Foot in it. Par nobile fratrem!! |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.125 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry HeathPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Miss putting her Foot in it!!- Or the Silver Ball making a breach, but missing The Mark. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8625 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac Robert CruikshankPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1824 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page

Title: Samuel Foothe |
Museum number: K,60.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziPublished by:George Kearsley the elder |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote in the Character of Fondlewife |
Museum number: K,60.20 |
Producer name: Print made by:John ThornthwaiteAfter:James Roberts II |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Title: Samuel Foote, Esqr. |
Museum number: K,60.5 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Jean François Gille Colson |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Lieut goverr Gall-stone, inspired by Alecto; -or- the birth of Minerva |
Museum number: Y,5.25 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The scheming triumvirate. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4125 |
Producer name: Published by:G GibbsPublished by:William Tringham |
Production date: 1760 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Foot on the stage and Asses in the pit-or- A new years-piece. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.135 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac Robert CruikshankPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Russell as Jerry Sneak |
Museum number: K,63.236 |
Producer name: Print made by:John RogersAfter:Thomas Charles Wageman |
Production date: 1810-1817 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Foote in the character of Mrs Cole in the Minor. Act I |
Museum number: Ee,3.277 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionAfter:Johann Ludwig Fäsch |
Production date: 1769-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr. Foot and Mr. Weston, in the characters of the President & Dr. Last |
Museum number: 1902,1011.2085 |
Producer name: Print made by:John FinlaysonAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Foote in the character of the Doctor in the Devil upon Two Sticks |
Museum number: Ee,3.278 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1769-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr. Foot and Mr. Weston, in the characters of the President & Dr. Last |
Museum number: R,10.35 |
Producer name: Print made by:John FinlaysonAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote as Mrs Cole |
Museum number: K,60.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WalkerAfter:Daniel Dodd |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote in the Character of Fondlewife |
Museum number: Ee,5.220 |
Producer name: After:James Roberts IIPrint made by:John Thornthwaite |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Title: Samuel Foote, Esqr. |
Museum number: K,60.5.+ |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Jean François Gille Colson |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Angelo as Mrs Cole |
Museum number: 1927,0531.23 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Satchwell LeneyAfter:Samuel De Wilde |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote in the character of Mrs Cole in the Minor. Act I |
Museum number: K,60.12 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionAfter:Johann Ludwig Fäsch |
Production date: 1769-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Lieut Goverr gall-stone, inspired by Alecto;-or- The birth of Minerva. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.477 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote in the character of the Devil upon two Sticks. Act I |
Museum number: K,60.27 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Garrick in the Character of an Auctioneer |
Museum number: Ee,3.205 |
Producer name: Print made by:James McArdellPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr. Foot and Mr. Weston, in the characters of the President & Dr. Last |
Museum number: 1933,1014.388 |
Producer name: Print made by:John FinlaysonAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Samuel Foote Esqr. |
Museum number: 1838,0714.43 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas BlackmoreAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr. Foot and Mr. Weston, in the characters of the President & Dr. Last |
Museum number: 1902,1011.2084 |
Producer name: Print made by:John FinlaysonAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Foote in the character of Major Sturgeon in the Mayor of Garratt |
Museum number: 1902,1011.2448 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Gottfried HaidAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1765 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Samuelis Foote Arm Miscuit Utile Dulci |
Museum number: 1933,1014.386 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard Bernard GodfreyAfter:Jean François Gille Colson |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Samuel Foote, Esq. |
Museum number: 1893,0202.39 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Robert Cooper |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Lieut Goverr gall-stone, inspired by Alecto;-or- The birth of Minerva. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5912 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Lady Pentweazle |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7978 |
Producer name: BIOG36357 Print made by:David Lucas |
Production date: 1844

print

Title: Samuel Foothe |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2270 |
Producer name: BIOG18591 Print made by:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1778

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.344 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard BrookshawAfter:Francis Cotes |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Mr Foote in the character of Mrs Cole |
Museum number: K,60.13 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1777-1780

print

Title: Mr Foote |
Museum number: K,60.23 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770-1800

print

Museum number: K,60.26 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1768-1780

print

Title: Samuel Foothe |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2269 |
Producer name: BIOG18591 Print made by:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1778

print; frontispiece

Museum number: Ee,3.29 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1770-1810

print

Title: Mr Foote in the Character of the Lecturer |
Museum number: K,60.21 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1762-1780

print

Museum number: K,60.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard BrookshawAfter:Francis Cotes |
Production date: 1773

print; satirical print; puzzle-picture

Title: The retort an hieroglyphic epistle from the Revd. Dr.. [Whitefield] to Saml.. [foot i.e. Foote] Esqr |
Museum number: Y,5.21 |
Production date: 1760

print; satirical print

Title: The S[tate] Puppitt Shew or the whole Play of King Solomon the Wife |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4283 |
Producer name: BIOG148204 Published by:Edward Sumpter |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: Folly Triumphant; or, and Humorous Epilogue to the Beaux of the Town |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3893 |
Producer name: BIOG178590 Print made by:Monogrammist LP |
Production date: 1749 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote as Fondlewife |
Museum number: K,60.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WalkerAfter:John James Barralet |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1912,0605.6 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1820-1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: K,60.29 |
Producer name: BIOG191038 Print made by:J Williams |
Production date: 1760-1780

print; satirical print

Title: The Bottle Conjurer, from Head to Foot, without Equivocation |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3871 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1749 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Weston in the character of Dr Last in the Devil upon two Sticks |
Museum number: K,66.59 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1769-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; watch-paper

Museum number: R,10.34 |
Producer name: After:Johan Joseph ZoffanyPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1765 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Public exposure, or they have put their Foot in it. Par nobile fratrem!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8637 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry HeathPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Lieut goverr Gall-stone, inspired by Alecto; -or- the birth of Minerva |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5913 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Lieut Goverr gall-stone, inspired by Alecto;-or- The birth of Minerva. |
Museum number: 1863,0110.134 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote in the character of the Doctor in the Devil upon Two Sticks |
Museum number: K,60.25 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1769-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Samuel Foote Esqr. |
Museum number: 1833,0610.33 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Thomas Blackmore |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote as Fondlewife |
Museum number: K,60.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WalkerAfter:John James Barralet |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Woodward in the character of Buck |
Museum number: K,66.118 |
Producer name: BIOG188993 Published by:Joseph Wenman |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A theatrical candidate. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6679 |
Producer name: BIOG44408 Print made by:Thomas Rowlandson |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Buck Metamorphos'd Or Mr Foote in the Character of the Englishman return'd from Paris |
Museum number: K,60.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gabriel SmithPublished by:C Sheppard |
Production date: 1790s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr. Foot and Mr. Weston, in the characters of the President & Dr. Last |
Museum number: R,10.36 |
Producer name: Print made by:John FinlaysonAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Samuel Foote |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7679 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1835 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Foote in the character of Major Sturgeon in the Mayor of Garratt |
Museum number: R,10.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Gottfried HaidAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1765 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Samuel Foote, Esqr. |
Museum number: K,60.6 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPublished by:John Hinton |
Production date: 1770-1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; lottery ticket; advertisement

Museum number: 1862,1217.151 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Richardson Goodluck & Co |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; puzzle-picture

Title: Retort upon retort: a satyrical, hieroglyphical, anatomical, critical & comical epistle, from Saml, |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4131 |
Producer name: BIOG32729 Published by:Michael Jackson |
Production date: 1760 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page

Title: Samuel Foothe |
Museum number: 1897,1231.189 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziPublished by:George Kearsley the elder |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Weston in the character of Dr Last in the Devil upon two Sticks |
Museum number: Ee,3.274 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1769-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Lieut Goverr gall-stone, inspired by Alecto;-or- The birth of Minerva. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12473 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Plucking a goose!!!- |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.124 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Foote in the Character of Fondlewife |
Museum number: K,60.18 |
Producer name: After:James Roberts IIPrint made by:John Thornthwaite |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Foot on the stage. and Asses in the pit-or-a new years-piece. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8640 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac Robert CruikshankPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Lady Pentweazle |
Museum number: 1888,0716.262 |
Producer name: Print made by:David LucasPublished by:Mary Parkes |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Plucking a goose!!!- |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2125 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Miss putting her Foot in it!!- Or the Silver Ball making a breach, but missing The Mark. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac Robert CruikshankPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1824 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; toy theatre

Museum number: 1886,0513.1087 |
Producer name: BIOG156232 Published by:William West |
Production date: 1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; watch-paper

Museum number: K,60.24 |
Producer name: After:Johan Joseph ZoffanyPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1765 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Angelo as Mrs Cole |
Museum number: 1939,0303.47 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Satchwell LeneyAfter:Samuel De Wilde |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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