Ireland in Scotland, or, A trip from Oxford to the land of cakes [graphic]

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Title: Ireland in Scotland, or, A trip from Oxford to the land of cakes [graphic]
Alternative Title: Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, publisher.
Published / Created: [June 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Robert Dighton
Abstract: "A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes.
Leaf 4 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.2 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads & Co. 1808.
Figure identified as "Mr. Ireland" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.3 x 21 cm, on sheet 29 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English