A gentle ride from Exeter 'Change to Pimlico [graphic]

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Title: A gentle ride from Exeter 'Change to Pimlico [graphic]
Alternative Title: Gentle ride from Exeter Exchange to Pimlico
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, publisher.
Published / Created: [August 1812]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Robert Dighton
Abstract: "An elderly man in profile to the right sits heavily on a horse which plods slowly with lowered head. He holds the single rein awkwardly; in his right hand is a cudgel. He wears old-fashioned dress with round hat and high-quartered buckled shoes with spurs. Identified as Thomas Clark of Exeter Change."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Leaf 6 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28.1 x 22.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Figure identified as "Mr. Clark" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 32.2 x 22.8 cm, on sheet 33 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English