The Right Honourable Henry Fox Esqr Secretary of State : from an original in the possession of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]

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Description

Title
The Right Honourable Henry Fox Esqr Secretary of State : from an original in the possession of the Honble. Horace Walpole / [graphic]
Creator
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Contributor
Liotard, Jean-Etienne, 1702-1789, artist.
Published / Created
[not before 1754]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Portrait, almost half-length in profile to left, looking towards the viewer, his arms at his sides, wearing an unbuttoned coat over an embroidered waistcoat, with a chin-length white wig, in an ornate frame."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Mounted on page 145 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 35.1 x 25.1 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : sheet 35.6 x 26 cm
Edition
[State 2].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1754
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774,
Subjects
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
England > London > 1754
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1809 or 10-1888 > Ownership
Wavertree, Florence Lothrop Sheridan Walker, lady, 1872-1952 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13216262
Object ID (OID)
16733037

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