Excerpt from Quaker PicturesIN a work on Quaker Pictures the first place naturally falls to portraits of George Fox. These are several in number. The earliest ofthcm we owe to Gerard iionthorst, a Dutch artist ofconsiderable repute in his day, and a native of Utrecht. It was while executing some commissions for Charles I. That Honthorst sclzedtheoppmtu111t\ otsketching the voung enthusiast whose name was doubtless already known at the court. His pictu1e has been thought by some to be 11 caric a.ture This, we think, is an unfor tunate mistake that could onlv have been niade by those who have not seen the original mezzotint c11rr111110' (min. By 75in.) by I'. Llolmes, published m 1799 bv the Quaker bookseller, Thomas ('lio Rickman. The fact 1s that George Fox's face, as seen in this print, is one of quite singular beaut\. No reproduction can convev it, and our small block 1s introduced only to 1ri\ e the barest idea of Holmes' s beautiful work. The cry of 11 truly aspiring soul seems to be on the lips, and the intense expression of the features is not more remarkable than their re finement. It has been well suggested that Honthorst sketched George Fox as he appeared 111 one of his solitary walks ln the fields, of which we read ln the earlier portions of the Journal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.