Samuel William Fores

[10] Both by commissioning new plates from leading caricaturists, and by buying up plates from retiring or insolvent competitors such as Elizabeth Jackson, Fores built up a large stock of caricatures and became one of the leading London dealers, also supplying prints wholesale to provincial and foreign printsellers.

[11] The mummified hand of the executed Danish physician Count Struensee was one of several sensational objects Fores included in his displays to attract visitors.

Fores died in February 1838 at the age of 77 and was buried in his family vault at St. James Church in Jermyn Street.

His prints spoke against the depravities of the French Revolution and he led the way in producing satires against Napoleon, fashioning himself 'Caricaturist to the First Consul'.

He became friends with political writer and fellow publisher William Hone (1780–1842) and several letters from their correspondence survive.