Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Samuel Percy, 1753–1819, Irish

Title:

Charles James Fox

Date:

ca. 1810

Materials & Techniques:

Tinted and painted wax with textile

Dimensions:

Overall: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B2013.16

Classification:

Sculptures

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

portrait | politician

Currently On View:

Not on view

Publications:

" That Ingenious Artist, Mr Percy ", the wax tableaux of Samuel Percy , Sculpture Journal, vol. 21, 2012, pp. 104-05, AvaiIable online (Orbis) Also available in hard copy at HAAS (NB1 S39)

Laura Beach, On the Money and In the Air : Wax Portrait of Charles James Fox, Magazine Antiques, vol. 180 [??], October 1, 2013, p. 56, NK1125 A3 OVERSIZE (HAAS) Also available online : www.themagazine antiques.com

Portrait of Charles James Fox by Samuel Percy , circa 1810, Elle Shushan Fine Portrait Miniatures, Philadelphia, 2013, leaves 1-4, V 2484 (YCBA)

E. J. Pyke, A biographical dictionary of wax modellers (supplement), Pyke, London, 1981, p.32, NK9580 P95 Suppl (YCBA)

E. J. Pyke, A biographical dictionary of wax modellers, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973, pp. 103-05, NK9580 P95 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:67305