The Honourable Charles Yorke. From a Model in Wax done by Gossett in 1766.
M.no Bovi Sculpt late pupil to F. Bartolozzi R.A. [n.d. c.1798] Stipple, 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"), with large margins. Light foxing. Charles Yorke (1722-1770). Having served as Solicitor-General and Attorney-General for different administrations, he committed suicide three days after being forced to become Lord Chancellor by George III. A frontispiece to 'Athenian Letters: or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War'.
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