Subject (Name): Donkin, Robert, 1727-1821 - Yale University Library Search Results

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Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:: [January 1809]
Call Number:: Quarto 75 D569 812
Collection Title:: Leaf 58. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An elderly man with an alert, wrinkled face, stands very erect in profile to the left, his hands resting on his cane. He wears an old-fashioned cocked hat with cockade, with white or powdered hair in a neat (military) pigtail; his long double-breasted blue coat has a small scarlet facing on the high collar; his shoes have large buckles. He is General Robert Donkin, father of Sir R. F. Donkin, died 1821, aged 94."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Leaf 58 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Genl. Donkin" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:: Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):: Donkin, Robert, 1727-1821
Subject (Topic):: Generals, British, Older people, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A view from the Pump Room, Bath [graphic]