Call Number: Quarto 75 D569 812 / Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1786-1865, printmaker

Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1786-1865, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1805?]
Call Number:: Quarto 75 D569 812
Collection Title:: Leaf 2. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An obese man, one Read, stands directed to the right, head in profile, sucking a straw and holding a cane against right shoulder. He has short legs, accentuated by a long waistcoat, and wears round hat with curved brim, riding-breeches, and spurred boots with deep tops."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Leaf 2 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:: Robert Dighton
Subject (Topic):: Obesity and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > If you'd know who this is, Read [graphic]

Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1786-1865, printmaker
Published / Created:: [December 1806]
Call Number:: Quarto 75 D569 812
Collection Title:: Leaf 27. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The famous soprano advances trippingly towards the spectator, head turned in profile to the right, left arm extended as if beckoning, a handkerchief in her right hand. She wears a gold fillet in her hair from which hang draperies, falling over her left arm, a dress with a double tunic, and a long train or mantle with tasselled ends flung over her shoulder and looped under her gold belt. All her quasi-barbaric draperies are heavily embroidered with gold. She has long rucked transparent sleeves. ... Not a caricature."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Leaf 27 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.8 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:: Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):: Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. and Catalani, Angelica 1780-1849,
Subject (Topic):: Opera singers and Operas & operettas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Madame Catalani in Semiramide her first appearance in England, Decr. 13th, 1806 / [graphic]

Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1786-1865, printmaker
Published / Created:: August 1803.
Call Number:: Quarto 75 D569 812
Collection Title:: Leaf 7. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Brook Watson (1735-1807) walks in profile to the right, using a sturdy tasselled cane; his right hand is in his coat-pocket. He is well preserved; a slight stoop suggests hurried walking (on his (right) wooden leg) rather than age. He wears a round hat, double-breasted coat, frilled shirt, and breeches; a small pigtail and a spatterdash suggest a quasi-military career."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Elderly man with peg leg and cane
Description:: Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower left portion of design, possibly an additional publication line "Pubd. by Dighton", has been obscured with etched lines., Leaf 7 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 15.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Pencil annotation in lower left corner of sheet is mostly trimmed away.
Publisher:: Pubd. by R. Dighton Junr
Subject (Name):: Watson, Brook, 1735-1807
Subject (Topic):: Amputees, Peg legs, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Brook Watson] [graphic].

Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1786-1865, printmaker
Published / Created:: [June 1805]
Call Number:: Quarto 75 D569 812
Collection Title:: Leaf 75. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two officers stand together directed to the right, almost in profile, dressed alike. The taller (right) holds a sheathed sword crooked in the left elbow; his shorter and slightly stouter friend stands very erect, and takes his right arm. They wear cocked hats with small plumes and side-tassels, stock and jabot under high-collared tunics, wide crossed belts, high cavalry boots, and gauntlet gloves. They are Robert Christopher Packe, Captain Royal Horse Guards, killed at Waterloo, and Lieut. George Augustus Fenwick."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Two soldiers
Description:: Title from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 75 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 18.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:: Dighton Junr.
Subject (Name):: Packe, Robert Christopher, -1815 and Fenwick, George Augustus, active 1805
Subject (Topic):: Military officers and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Views of the Blues] [graphic]

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