"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)
"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.
"Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Clarkes levee
Description:
Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching ; sheet 16.9 x 22.8 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Imperfect; only top image "Mrs. Clarks Levee" is present, with bottom image (including imprint statement) having been trimmed away from sheet., and Mounted opposite page 27.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Courtesans, Mistresses, Military officers, British, Clergy, Bags, Money, Windows, Staffs (Sticks), and Dogs
"Horsley, stout and prelatical, in apron, gaiters, and buckled shoes, walks in profile to the right, holding cane and tricorne hat in gloved hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Late Right Reverend Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph
Description:
Title etched below image., "A reissue, with altered title, of a plate published in 1802, 'A trip from Rochester to St. Asaph', the final figure of the date being altered and '4 Spring Gardens' inserted with a caret"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., and Leaf 38 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
Wales
Subject (Name):
Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806 and Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806.
"Horsley, stout and prelatical, in apron, gaiters, and buckled shoes, walks in profile to the right, holding cane and tricorne hat in gloved hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Late Right Reverend Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph
Description:
Title etched below image., "A reissue, with altered title, of a plate published in 1802, 'A trip from Rochester to St. Asaph', the final figure of the date being altered and '4 Spring Gardens' inserted with a caret"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 20.1 cm, on sheet 32.2 x 25.1 cm., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 560 (leaf numbered '154' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
Wales
Subject (Name):
Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806 and Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806.
