George Fox. Aetat 30.Founder of the Sect of the People called Quakers. From the original painting by Honthorst, done in the year 1654, now in the Possession of Thomas Clio Rickman.
Painted by Honthorst 1654. Engraved by Holmes.
Published May 1799 by T.C. Rickman No.7 Upper Marylbone Street, London, as the Act directs.
Stipple in sepia, image 230 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼". Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of George Fox (1624 - 1691), Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, aged thirty; he looks upwards, his hands raised in devotion, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a cape. After Gerard van Honthorst (1590 - 1656). The publisher, Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), was born a Quaker but was disowned by them after marrying outside the faith. He set himself up as a bookseller in 1783, publishing political pamphlets as well as a portrait of George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement. Thomas Paine lived with him when composing The Rights of Man in 1791, and Rickman had to go into hiding for selling Paine's works in 1792. In 1819 Rickman published a 'Life of Thomas Paine'.
[Ref: 13349] £150.00
Published May 1799 by T.C. Rickman No.7 Upper Marylbone Street, London, as the Act directs.
Stipple in sepia, image 230 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼". Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of George Fox (1624 - 1691), Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, aged thirty; he looks upwards, his hands raised in devotion, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a cape. After Gerard van Honthorst (1590 - 1656). The publisher, Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), was born a Quaker but was disowned by them after marrying outside the faith. He set himself up as a bookseller in 1783, publishing political pamphlets as well as a portrait of George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement. Thomas Paine lived with him when composing The Rights of Man in 1791, and Rickman had to go into hiding for selling Paine's works in 1792. In 1819 Rickman published a 'Life of Thomas Paine'.
[Ref: 13349] £150.00