Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1786-1865, printmaker / Genre: Etchings England London 1806

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Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1786-1865, printmaker
Published / Created:: [December 1806]
Call Number:: 806.12.00.04 Impression 1
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.
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:: [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]