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![[Charles James Fox.]](jpegs/40559.jpg)
[Charles James Fox.] [quotation in Greek.]
T. Day del.t. J. Jones fecit.
[Publish'd as the Act directs, Feby 5th 1787, by J. Jones, No 63, Great Portland Street.]
Stipple, sheet 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½"). Trimmed, losing publication line; good impression.
Charles James Fox (1749-1806), British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years. Fox was the first foreign secretary of the United Kingdom and a vocal supporter of American independence. Also known for his rivalry with William Pitt the Younger and as a staunch opponent of George III, Fox held office briefly as a Tory under Lord North then leading the opposition. He strongly criticised Lord North and the conduct of the American war, viewing the cause of the American patriots as a struggle for liberty against oppressive external power. He supported the revolutionaries of the United States, often dressing in the colours of George Washington's army. He championed America's cause, denouncing taxation of Americans without their consent. Reform was a passion but as a supporter of the revolutionary cause in France, his credibility was diminished from 1792 by the excesses of the French revolutionaries. Stipple engraving after the little-known miniaturist Thomas Day, who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1772 and 1778. Probably published as a pendant to a portrait of Edmund Burke (see ref. 40559).
O'D 10. Ex Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 40559] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
T. Day del.t. J. Jones fecit.
[Publish'd as the Act directs, Feby 5th 1787, by J. Jones, No 63, Great Portland Street.]
Stipple, sheet 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½"). Trimmed, losing publication line; good impression.
Charles James Fox (1749-1806), British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years. Fox was the first foreign secretary of the United Kingdom and a vocal supporter of American independence. Also known for his rivalry with William Pitt the Younger and as a staunch opponent of George III, Fox held office briefly as a Tory under Lord North then leading the opposition. He strongly criticised Lord North and the conduct of the American war, viewing the cause of the American patriots as a struggle for liberty against oppressive external power. He supported the revolutionaries of the United States, often dressing in the colours of George Washington's army. He championed America's cause, denouncing taxation of Americans without their consent. Reform was a passion but as a supporter of the revolutionary cause in France, his credibility was diminished from 1792 by the excesses of the French revolutionaries. Stipple engraving after the little-known miniaturist Thomas Day, who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1772 and 1778. Probably published as a pendant to a portrait of Edmund Burke (see ref. 40559).
O'D 10. Ex Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 40559] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Great Fire in Southwark. Plan of the Buildings Destroyed, from actual Survey. By J.T. Loveday Esq. (of the Phoenix Fire Office).
Lithographed by Edw.d Weller, Red Lion Square.
Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 139 Fleet Street [London: Cassell, 1861.]
Lithograph, printed area 310 x 450mm. Stains, laid on card.
The fire of 22 June 1861, which destroyed Cotton's Wharf & Chamberlain's Wharf, between Tooley Street and the Thames (site of London Bridge Hospital). It burned for over two weeks, destroying three acres and about £2 million of goods, including hemp, cotton, sacks of sugar, wooden casks of tallow, bales of jute, boxes of tea and spices. At least six men were killed, including the captain of the fire brigade, James Braidwood (whose facsimile signature appears lower left), crushed by a falling wall. James Thomas Loveday, 'Surveyor of Risks' of the Phoenix Fire Office spent two and a half years compiling plans of wharves and granaries along the Thames to assess fire risk for insurance purposes. This plan, detailing the owners of the affected buildings, was adapted for the 'Weekly Dispatch Atlas', a periodical. This volume held at Guildhall Library, covers an area on the south bank of the Thames from London Bridge to the Globe Granary at Rotherhithe and on the north bank from London Bridge to Tower Dock.
[Ref: 61751] £180.00
Lithographed by Edw.d Weller, Red Lion Square.
Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 139 Fleet Street [London: Cassell, 1861.]
Lithograph, printed area 310 x 450mm. Stains, laid on card.
The fire of 22 June 1861, which destroyed Cotton's Wharf & Chamberlain's Wharf, between Tooley Street and the Thames (site of London Bridge Hospital). It burned for over two weeks, destroying three acres and about £2 million of goods, including hemp, cotton, sacks of sugar, wooden casks of tallow, bales of jute, boxes of tea and spices. At least six men were killed, including the captain of the fire brigade, James Braidwood (whose facsimile signature appears lower left), crushed by a falling wall. James Thomas Loveday, 'Surveyor of Risks' of the Phoenix Fire Office spent two and a half years compiling plans of wharves and granaries along the Thames to assess fire risk for insurance purposes. This plan, detailing the owners of the affected buildings, was adapted for the 'Weekly Dispatch Atlas', a periodical. This volume held at Guildhall Library, covers an area on the south bank of the Thames from London Bridge to the Globe Granary at Rotherhithe and on the north bank from London Bridge to Tower Dock.
[Ref: 61751] £180.00