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Robert Dighton. (c.1752 . .1814).
Robert Dighton was best known
as a
clever social satirist and an unfortunate art thief. Richard Dighton
published his first etching in 1815. By 1828 he had created over one
hundred works of art in this medium. At that date he ceased etching and
moved to the provinces, settling in both Cheltenham and Worcester. Over
the next twenty years Dighton worked mainly as a watercolor
portraitist. After 1835 he again produced original prints, this time in
the medium of lithography. An accomplished portrait painter and etcher,
Dighton exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1769 until 1773.
In addition, he periodically exhibited at the Royal Academy. Dighton
used his subtle style to produce a great number of humorous portraits
of the leading figures in English society. In awkward poses and with
ruddy faces, Dighton satirized lawyers, military officers, actor, and
actresses who were seen about town. He also did a series of amusing
portraits of Oxford professors and country gentlemen, which display the
same subtle sense of humor typical of his caricatures.
In 1806 the British Museum
discovered that
Dighton had been stealing prints from their print room and selling them
on the open market. An art dealer by the name of Samuel Woodburn had
purchased a copy of Rembrandt's "Coach Landscape" from Dighton for
twelve guineas. Supposing it may be a copy, Woodburn took the print to
the British Museum to compare it with their impression; upon which he
discovered that their copy was missing. Upon investigation Dighton
confessed that he befriended the museum officials by drawing portraits
of them when he visited the museum. This relationship allowed him the
freedom to steal prints from the print room and remove them from the
museum in his portfolio. He then proceeded to supplement his artists'
income by selling the pilfered items to the art trade. Although he had
somewhat questionable morals, Dighton remains an important English
caricaturist who brought the profession a refreshing subtlety and quiet
wit. Ironically, many of Dighton's caricatures and some of his original
drawings can now be found in the print room of the British Museum. Sorry
for the shop title on images but I get fed up of my images being on
ebay. . . they now use them with titles(idiots)
Robert Dighton. (c.1752 . . 1814).
. . . . . . . Richard Dighton. (1795 . . 1880).
Both Father and Son produced many
portrait etchings. Usually they were single figures with little or no
background. Robert Dighton's prints are numerous and originally sold
tinted by hand, are chiefly satirical portraits of the leading counsel
then at the bar, military officers, actors and actresses, he signed
himself R. Dighton and Dighton, whereas his son Richard wrote his name
in full
**These are pictured to show any
faults ie strong lighting edge nicks unmended they will normally be
sent mended but I prefer to show ' warts and all' rather than to mount
skillfully and decieve**
A Major Part of the Town of Portsmouth
Major
Charles Ashurst,
was in
command of the Marines protecting Portsmouth Harbour.Drawn
by and published
by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published 1807 London: Published by Robert
Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on
watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary
script on bottom of image. one slight mucky mk pretty perfect £95
inc a scarcer image
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A View from the Pump Room,
Bath.
General Robert
Donkin
who died in March 1821, at the age of 94, had
been a brother-officer of Wolfe on the staff of General Fowke in
Flanders, and afterwards served on the staff of General Rufane in
Martinique, of Lord Granard when commander-in-chief in Ireland, and of
General Gage in America. Drawn by
and published by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published
1809 London: Published by
Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed
on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary
script on bottom of image. pretty perfect SOLD
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A View of the Telegraph, Cambridge
Published June,
1808, by Dighton of Samuel Kilner Drawn by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published December 1809 (1802)London: Published by Robert
Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on
watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary
script on bottom of image. pretty perfect £80
inc
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A view of the
telegraph,
Cambridge (Richard Vaughan('Hell Fire Dick') 2
Portrait
of 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'. He died in 1822. 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. by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published December 1809 London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. Pretty perfect £80
inc
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A view of the
telegraph,
Cambridge'
Portrait of
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'. He died in 1822. 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. by and published by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching,
published May 1809 271 mm x 198 mm plate size;
10 1/4 in. x 12 3/8 in. (260 mm x 315 mm) paper size.Framed glazed
unopened but appears to be free and with good borders.£85 inc
marginal age toning to the paper***Pic slightly distorted taken
through
mucky glass, sorry !*not opened
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'Agamemnon a great general,
taken on the Steyne at Brighton'
He is General William
Dalrymple, 1735-1807, Col. of the 47th Foot and Lt.-Governor of Chelsea
Hospital, father of the 7th Earl of Stair. Below the title: 'Taken on
the Steyne at Brighton.' A very obese man stands in profile to the
right., his hands behind him with a meditative expression. He wears
old-fashioned dress, with round, broad-brimmed hat, and buckled shoes.
1 January 1804 Drawn by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published London: Published by Robert
Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on
watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary
script on bottom of image. pretty perfect £80
inc
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'Agamemnon
a great general,
taken on the Steyne at Brighton'
He
is General William Dalrymple, 1735-1807, Col. of the 47th Foot and
Lt.-Governor of Chelsea Hospital, father of the 7th Earl of Stair.
Below the title: 'Taken on the Steyne at Brighton.' A very obese man
stands in profile to the right., his hands behind him with a meditative
expression. He wears old-fashioned dress, with round, broad-brimmed
hat, and buckled shoes. 1 January 1804 Drawn by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published London: Published by Robert
Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on
watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary
script on bottom of image. pretty perfect£85
inc delivery ***Pic slightly distorted taken through mucky glass, sorry
!*
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A view from Swan Brew House Oxford'
Mr.
Hall of the Swan
Brewery. A man stands looking to the left., (gloved) r. hand on his
cane, l. 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. Drawn by
and published by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published
1807 London: Published by
Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed
on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary
script on bottom of image. pretty perfect £80
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'A view taken from the Town
Hall, Oxford'
(Sir
William Elias Taunton) Whole length portrait of William Elias Taunton
walking to the left., head in profile, r. hand on his cane. He has a
small pigtail, wears a hat of unusual shape, double-breasted coat,
wrinkled knee-breeches, and loose boots of Hessian type. Taunton (1773
- 1835), son of the Town Clerk of Oxford, Justice of the King's Bench
1830, was made Recorder of Oxford in 1806. He is said to have been one
of three prominent Oxford residents who invited Dighton there to
caricature a fourth, John Ireland by Robert Dighton hand-coloured
etching,
published 1 May 1807 11 in. x 8 1/8 in. (278 mm x 205 mm) plate size;
347 mm x 268 mm paper size .e pretty perfect £80
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'A view taken
from the Town
Hall, Oxford'
(Sir
William Elias Taunton) Whole length portrait of William Elias Taunton
walking to the left., head in profile, r. hand on his cane. He has a
small pigtail, wears a hat of unusual shape, double-breasted coat,
wrinkled knee-breeches, and loose boots of Hessian type. Taunton (1773
- 1835), son of the Town Clerk of Oxford, Justice of the King's Bench
1830, was made Recorder of Oxford in 1806. He is said to have been one
of three prominent Oxford residents who invited Dighton there to
caricature a fourth, John Ireland by Robert Dighton hand-coloured
etching,
published 1 May 1807 11 in. x 8 1/8 in. (278 mm x 205 mm) plate size;
347 mm x 268 mm paper size . Framed glazed
unopened but appears to be free and with good borders.£95 inc
some age toning to the paper***Pic slightly distorted taken through
mucky glass, sorry !*
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Madame Catalani in Semiramide
The famous
soprano advances
trippingly towards the spectator, head turned in profile to the right.,
l. 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. Below the title: 'her
first appearance in England, Decr 13th 1806.' Not a caricature.
December 1806 by Dighton of Doctor Hartley
Drawn by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published London: Published by Robert
Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on
watermarked laid paper. none for sale at present
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Hamlet in Scotland. A large manager in a Great Character
The
enormously fat Stephen Kemble, as Hamlet, gesticulates, right arm
extended, left arm thrown back, fingers (very large) pointing
awkwardly; his head is turned in profile to the left. He wears
quasi-contemporary dress, much dishevelled, with a star and ribbon from
which hangs the elephant of the Danish order. Beneath the title: 'A
Large manager in a Great Character . . . . . . that I have thought some
of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they
imitated humanity so abominably.' 6 December 1794 Drawn by and
published by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published December
1809 (1802) London: Published by Robert
Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on
watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary
script on bottom of image. pretty perfect £80
inc a scarce early pic with an old tape repair
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A View taken from Christ
Church Meadows Oxford. 1
portraits of James Webber and Cyril Jackson, Dean of Christ Church .
The tall Dean of Christ Church and James Webber (B.D. 1807), both in
academic dress, walk, r. 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. May 1807 Drawn by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured
etching, published December 1809 (1802) London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. pretty perfect £80
inc
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A View taken from Christ Church Meadows Oxford. 2
portraits of James Webber and Cyril Jackson, Dean of Christ Church .
The tall Dean of Christ Church and James Webber (B.D. 1807), both in
academic dress, walk, r. 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. May 1807 Drawn by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured
etching, published December 1809 (1802) London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. light creasing
pretty perfect £80 inc
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A View taken from Christ Church Meadows Oxford. 3
portraits of James Webber and Cyril Jackson, Dean of Christ Church .
The tall Dean of Christ Church and James Webber (B.D. 1807), both in
academic dress, walk, r. 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. May 1807 Drawn by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured
etching, published December 1809 (1802) London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. offsetting
otherwise pretty perfect £80 inc
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The
Principal Arch of Lambeth
palace
Archbishop
Moore stands in profile to the left., holding his episcopal tricorne in
his (gloved) left hand. He wears a short bushy powdered wig, episcopal
waistcoat and apron, with stockings and buckled shoes. Jan 1803 by and
published by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching,London: Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross,
Engraving with added hand-colour. Printedon
watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary
script on bottom of image. Pretty perfect mounted £70
inc**larger than normal image
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A View from
Magdalen Hall, Oxford
Dr. Ford walks
r. to left. in profile, looking at the ground, and clutching his gown
in his right. hand. He wears mortarboard, bands, and cassock. Henry
Ford matriculated 1776, aged 23, at Pembroke, was Lord Almoner's
professor of Arabic 1780-1813, D.C.L. Magdalen Hall 1788, Principal
1788-1813. June 1808 by and
published by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published December
1809 London: Published by Robert Dighton,
Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on watermarked
laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary script on bottom
of image. Pretty perfect £80 inc
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A View From Magdalen Hall,
Dr. Ford walks r. to left. in
profile, looking at the
ground, and clutching his gown in his right. hand. He wears
mortarboard, bands, and cassock. Henry Ford matriculated 1776, aged 23,
at Pembroke, was Lord Almoner's professor of Arabic 1780-1813, D.C.L.
Magdalen Hall 1788, Principal 1788-1813. June 1808by and
published by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published December
1809 London: Published by Robert Dighton,
Charg. Cross, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on watermarked
laid paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary script on bottom
of image. Pretty perfect t £80
inc
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A View from Oriel College, Oxford
Dr.
Eveleigh stands in
profile to the right., holding to his person his voluminous gown. He
wears a clerical wig, mortar-board, and cassock. Eveleigh, Provost of
Oriel 1781-1814, was Bampton Lecturer in 1792. He did much to raise the
college to its high position in the early nineteenth century, and was a
vigorous university reformer. by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published December 1809 London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. Pretty perfect £80
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A View from Oriel College, Oxford 2
Dr.
Eveleigh stands in profile to the right., holding to his person his
voluminous gown. He wears a clerical wig, mortar-board, and cassock.
Eveleigh, Provost of Oriel 1781-1814, was Bampton Lecturer in 1792. He
did much to raise the college to its high position in the early
nineteenth century, and was a vigorous university reformer. by and
published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published December 1809 London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. Pretty perfect £80 inc
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A Vew from Magdalen College Cambridge
Dr.
Gretton walks in
profile to the left, wearing mortar-board, gown, bands, and cassock. He
has a pouched and wrinkled face and short white hair or wig. He holds a
handkerchief in his right hand which rests on his breast, the left is
in the pocket of his cassock. William Gretton (1736-1813) was Master of
Magdalene from 1797, and Vice-Chancellor 1800-1 June 1809 by and
published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. Pretty perfect £80
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A Celebrated Public Orator
William
Crowe stands in
profile to the right. holding his mortar-board in his right. hand, his
left hand extended, slightly stooping, as if making a speech. He has
short thick hair (or wig) and wears bands and cassock under his
gown.Crowe (1745-1829) was Public Orator, Oxford, 1784-1829. Jan
1808 by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. Pretty perfect £80
inc
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A View from Peter House cambridge /Peterhouse
Dr.
Barnes, wearing cap
and gown, a clerical wig, and bands, stands in profile to the right. He
is tall, with a fierce Punch-like profile. A second imprint is etched
in reversed characters in the shadow at his feet: 'Whitt . . . N°
31 Shoe La[ne], London'. Francis Barnes, D.D., Master of Peterhouse
from 1788, was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1813 to
1838, but gave no lectures by and published by
Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published 1810 London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. Pretty perfect £80
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A View from Trinity College cambridge
Mansel, Bishop
of Bristol and Master of Trinity (from 1798), walks from left to right,
and slightly towards the spectator, head in profile, and thrown back,
his mortar-board in his left hand. His voluminous, inflated, and much
convoluted gown covers a bulky figure. He wears a clerical wig. Jan 10
1810 .by and
published by Robert Dighton hand-coloured etching, published London:
Published by Robert Dighton, Charg. Cross, Engraving with
added hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image. £80
inc
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A View from Brazen Nose College Oxford / BNC/Brasenose
William
Cleaver
(1742-1815),
Principal of Brasenose. He gave Brasenose
a reputation for scholarship and discipline, which it had lacked,
and
also became successively Bishop of Chester, Bangor and St. Asaph
by and published by
Richard Dighton, reissued by Thomas McLean
hand-coloured etching, published December 1808 Engraving with
added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image £80 inc
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A View Taken at Oxford
Dr.
John Smith (1744-1809), Master of Pembroke College, stands in profile
to the right. He has a fat, jowly face, scowling grimly, is very round
shouldered and has a pot belly, and wears a crumpled, voluminous
academic gown by
and published by Richard Dighton, reissued by Thomas McLean
hand-coloured etching, published 1808, Engraving with added
hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Name of subjects
inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of image £80
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'A View from Merton College
Samuel
Kilner
(1732-1815),
Fellow of Merton till 1815, Sub-warden in 1814. He appears younger than
his age. A tall slim man( Samuel Kilner
) stands in profile to the left., wearing a long gown over lay dress
and holding out a round hat. He is sharp-featured, and wears (?) a wig
simulating short natural hair with a curl at the neck. Caricature of Dr Kneller by and published by Richard
Dighton,
reissued by Thomas McLean hand-coloured etching, published December
1819, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid
paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of
image £80 inc
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'A view
from Merton College,
Oxford' (Samuel Kilner)
Samuel
Kilner (1732-1815),
Fellow of Merton College, Oxford
Samuel
Kilner (1732-1815),
Fellow of Merton till 1815, Sub-warden in 1814. He appears younger than
his age. A tall slim man( Samuel Kilner
) stands in profile to the left., wearing a long gown over lay dress
and holding out a round hat. He is sharp-featured, and wears (?) a wig
simulating short natural hair with a curl at the neck. Caricature of Dr Kneller by and published by Richard
Dighton,
reissued by Thomas McLean hand-coloured etching, published December
1819, Engraving with added hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid
paper. Name of subjects inscribed in contemporary script on bottom of
image £80
inc framed
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