The Right Honourable Charles James Fox [graphic]

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Title: The Right Honourable Charles James Fox [graphic]
Creator: Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Jones, J. approximately 1745-1797, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 November 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd as the act directs, Novr. 1st, 1792, by J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, Marylebone
Abstract: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 674); standing three-quarter length to front, head turned to face right, with his right hand on papers on table, wearing coat buttoned at chest and his hair powdered; curtain pulled back to reveal pillar and sky behind; state with price, before it was altered to 1s.6d."--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.
"Price, 10s.-6d."--Following imprint.
Bound in opposite page 412 (leaf numbered '26' in pencil) in volume 3 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 50.5 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English