"A man stands looking to the left, (gloved) right hand on his cane, left arm akimbo, legs apart. He wears wide-brimmed hat, double-breasted coat, knee-breeches, high-quartered buckled shoes, and elaborate neck-cloth with kilted jabot and sleeve-ruffle. He is Mr. Hall of the Swan Brewery."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Hall., Leaf 34 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.4 x 19.5 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"A half-length portrait of Tattersall in his rostrum, leaning forward on a large open book, his head in profile to the right, his auctioneer's hammer in his (gloved) right hand. He is very bulky and wears a round hat with curved brim. The rostrum is the base of the design; it is pierced by an arched opening to give a view of a jockey on a galloping horse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 20 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Tattersall" in pencil below plate mark.
Full-length portrait in profile of the Duke of Norfolk looking left and holding his hat in his right hand and a gathering of sheets of paper in his left
Description:
Title engraved below image, with ducal crown above title., Leaf 65 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Duke Norfolk" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1796, by R. Dighton, No. 12 Charing Cross
"The Duke of Somerset in military uniform rides in profile to the left. He wears a double-peaked cocked hat with plume. In the background is a camp with tiny soldiers being drilled."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Leaf 69 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, Duke of, 1775-1855
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Military camps, and Horses
"A caricature portrait of the Marquis of Buckingham (George Grenville Nugent Temple) walking in profile to the left. He wears military uniform with cocked hat and spurred Hessians, and is enormously obese, his sword-belt grotesquely clasped across his paunch. His hand is on the hilt of his sword. He was Lord Lieutenant of Bucks. Unlike other caricatures of Buckingham."--British Museum online catalogue and "George identified the subject as George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813) but it is, rather, his son Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), known until 1813 as Earl Temple."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 76 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808., and Figure identified as "Marquess Buckingham" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839 and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813,
"A coachman in a single-breasted coat reaching to his boot-tops stands looking to the left. His cylindrical hat has an irregular brim. A team-whip leans against his left shoulder and he holds the end of the lash between the tips of the fingers of both hands."--British Museum online catalogue and "Dick Vaughan, the driver of the Cambridge Telegraph, a famous coach, was known as Hell-Fire-Dick, and was 'a favourite companion of University fashionables'."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 22 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
"Dr. John Smith, portly and very round-shouldered, stands in profile to the right, wearing mortar-board, gown, and cassock, with bands. An eye-glass hangs from a ribbon. Smith (1744-1809), B.D. and D.D. 1796, was Rector of Fairford, Glos., 1768-1809, and Master of Pembroke College 1796-1809."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 47 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.3 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"An elderly man shambles from right to left in profile, right hand on his stick, left hand in his coat-pocket. He wears a hat with a curved brim, a curled, old-fashioned brown wig, a long coat, and an overcoat, with ill-fitting gaiters reaching to the thigh. Two seals hang from a fob. He is Councillor John Morris or Morriss."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 57 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
"An elderly man of clerical appearance, stands in profile to the right knees slightly flexed, right hand resting on a heavy cane, left hand raised in an expository gesture. He wears an ill-fitting powdered wig with a curl at the back, a round hat with the brim turned up at the side, long buttoned coat, wrinkled stockings, high-quartered buckled shoes, and gloves. Identified as Dr. John Shepherd."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 56 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
"The tall Dean of Christ Church [Cyril Jackson] and James Webber (B.D. 1807), both in academic dress, walk, right to left, and slightly towards the spectator, heads in profile. Webber expounds with extended hand, the Dean listens with grave intensity. The Dean wears a clerical wig, a cassock with sash, and high-quartered buckled shoes. The younger and smaller man has short hair, double-breasted coat, fashionable jabot, and knee-breeches, with tied shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 43 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 29.7 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figures identified as "Mr. Webber" and "Dr. Jackson, Dean, Christ Church" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Cyril, 1746-1819 and Webber, James, 1772-1847
