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Charles James Fox

Charles James Fox
1784

Medium
mezzotint

Measurements
45.5 × 35.2 cm (image) 50.4 × 35.4 cm (plate) 53.9 × 42.3 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Russell II 28C ii/ii; Chaloner Smith 28 (undescribed state); Hamilton p. 28 iii/v

Edition
2nd of 2 states

Printing/Publishing
published by John Jones, London; published by William Austin, London

Inscription
printed (diagonally) (inverted) in ink (in image) l.l.: A Bill for the / better regulating / the affairs of the / E.J. Company, &c.
printed (diagonally) (inverted) in ink (in image) l.c. l.: Representation / of the Commons / to the King / March 15 / 1784.
printed in ink l.l.: Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
printed in ink l.r.: Engraved by John Jones.
printed in ink l.c.: The Right Honourable / CHARLES JAMES FOX / London, Publiſh’d as the Act directs, Novr (. under r) 1st (. under st) 1784, by J. Jones, No (. under o) 63, Great Portland Street, Marylebone: and Mr (. under r) Auſtin, Drawing Maſter, St (. under t) James’s Street

Accession Number
584-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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