An original etching with the portrait of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland, after the oil by William Hogarth then owned by Samuel Ireland. Engraved by Joseph Haynes, a pupil of the painter John Hamilton Mortimer, and published in London on 19 March 1782.
An original etching with the portrait of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland, after the oil by William Hogarth then owned by Samuel Ireland. Engraved by Joseph Haynes, a pupil of the painter John Hamilton Mortimer, and published in London on 19 March 1782.
Henry Fox (1705-1774), father of Charles James Fox, was Paymaster General and one of the most disputed political figures of Georgian England; Hogarth's portrait is among the few he made of him from life.
Medium: etching on paper
Artist / after: William Hogarth
Engraver: Joseph Haynes
Date: 19 March 1782
Dimensions: Plate mark 7.2 x 9.5 in (18.3 x 24.2 cm)
Condition: good; sheet with wide margins and a clean plate mark, paper lightly toned