A view from Merton College, Oxford [graphic].

Description

Title: A view from Merton College, Oxford [graphic].
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, publisher.
Published / Created: June 1808.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Dighton, Charg. Cross
Abstract: "A young man in cap and gown over fashionable dress, with short but not cropped hair, walks in profile to the right, his arms by his sides, bending slightly forward. He is Winchcombe Hartley who matriculated 9 Dec. 1806, aged eighteen, and was a Fellow of Merton 1808-13."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Leaf 45 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Figure identified as "Mr. Hartley" in pencil below plate mark.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.8 x 21.3 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English