The Right Honble. Charles James Fox [graphic]

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Title: The Right Honble. Charles James Fox [graphic]
Alternative Title: Right Honourable Charles James Fox
Creator: Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, artist.
Published / Created: [13 October 1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Octr. 13, 1806, by S.W. Reynolds, 47, Poland Street
Abstract: "Portrait, seated full-length in a chair by a writing table, holding his spectacles and a brief; state after addition of books on and beneath the table and against the chair, and replacement of shelves of books with distant trees in the background on right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
"Smaller version in stipple of the image described by Whitman for state II, with slight alterations, e.g. in the shape of the books under the table; the publication date is the same, but the lettering is different, and an engraved border has been added"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,1113.110.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Cf. Whitman, A. Samuel William Reynolds, 93.II.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 272 (leaf numbered '90' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36.7 x 27.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English