# Monument to Charles James Fox \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [WESTMACOTT, Sir Richard](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/westmacott-sir-richard-r443eb0c68a0533>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Marble

## Commentary

When Canova visited Westmacott&#39;s workshop and saw the figure of an African, one of the secondary figures of the monument to Fox, he is supposed to have declared that he had never seen a marble piece to surpass it either inside or outside England.

## Related artworks

- [Horace&#39;s Dream](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/westmacott-sir-richard-r443eb0c68a0533/horaces-dream-r88c0cc785ab820>)
- [Monument to Charles James Fox](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/westmacott-sir-richard-r443eb0c68a0533/monument-to-charles-james-fox-raa9319907aa3dc>)
- [Monument to General Abercrombie](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/westmacott-sir-richard-r443eb0c68a0533/monument-to-general-abercrombie-r8fffd2811dfaa6>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)