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1. A general view of Old England [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [September 1808]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 71. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly general rides a high-stepping horse in profile to the left, posed like an equestrian statue. He wears a high cocked hat with cockade and plume; his sword-belt is buckled over his sash, which girds a heavy paunch. In his right hand is a cane. He is Lt.-General Richard England of Lifford, co. Clare, Colonel of the 5th Foot and Lt.-Governor of Plymouth, father of Sir Richard England (b. 1793). He was a veteran of the American War, and had been one of the first colonists of Western Upper Canada."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, with minimal loss of image from right edge., Leaf 71 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- England, Richard, approximately 1750-1812
- Subject (Topic):
- Military officers, British, Horses, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A general view of Old England [graphic]
2. A gloomy Day taken on the Steyne at Brighton / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [November 1801]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 31. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A half length portrait of Matthew Day standing in profile to the right. He is very obese, wears round hat, long coat, tasselled Hessian boots, and holds a cane in his gloved hand."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Leaf 31 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 1801 by Dighton, Charg. Cross
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A gloomy Day taken on the Steyne at Brighton / [graphic]
3. A view from Trinity College, Cambridge [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 January 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 52. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker tentatively identified as Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue., Leaf 52 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Bishop of Bristol" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 10th, 1810, by Dighton, 6 Charg. Cross
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Mansel, William Lort, 1753-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops, Clergy, College administrators, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from Trinity College, Cambridge [graphic].
4. A view of a Temple near Buckingham [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- July 1811.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 76. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A caricature portrait of the Marquis of Buckingham (George Grenville Nugent Temple) walking in profile to the left. He wears military uniform with cocked hat and spurred Hessians, and is enormously obese, his sword-belt grotesquely clasped across his paunch. His hand is on the hilt of his sword. He was Lord Lieutenant of Bucks. Unlike other caricatures of Buckingham."--British Museum online catalogue and "George identified the subject as George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813) but it is, rather, his son Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), known until 1813 as Earl Temple."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 76 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808., and Figure identified as "Marquess Buckingham" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
- Subject (Name):
- Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839 and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813,
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of a Temple near Buckingham [graphic].
5. Agamemnon a great general taken on the Steyne at Brighton / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1804]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 29. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Leaf 29 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Agamemnon a great general taken on the Steyne at Brighton / [graphic]
6. French officer & English alehouse man [art original]
- Creator:
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1767?]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 181. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- French officer and English alehouse man and Officer francois / by Miss Conway
- Description:
- Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (60 x 86 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Officer francois, by Miss Conway., Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767., and Mounted on page 181 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Military officers, French, Ethnic stereotypes, Drinking vessels, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > French officer & English alehouse man [art original]
7. Hamlet in Scotland a large manager in a great character / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- pubd. Decr. 6th, 1794.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 23. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,2.22., Two lines of text from Hamlet are etched below title: ---------- that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably., Leaf 23 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching and stipple engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.5 x 16.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Stephen Kemble" in pencil below plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, Stephen, 1758-1822
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Obesity, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hamlet in Scotland a large manager in a great character / [graphic]
8. I vont take a farden less [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1795]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 5. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An obese butcher (three-quarter length), in profile to the left, leans back from the waist, sucking a long pipe held in his right hand. His ill-fitting wig is perched on a bald head. He wears apron and oversleeves, a steel hanging from his waist."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades -- Dutchmen -- Tools: butchers' steel., Leaf 5 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.8 x 14.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- [Robert Dighton], Charing Cross
- Subject (Topic):
- Butchers, Obesity, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > I vont take a farden less [graphic]
9. If you'd know who this is, Read [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1786-1865, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1805?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 2. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An obese man, one Read, stands directed to the right, head in profile, sucking a straw and holding a cane against right shoulder. He has short legs, accentuated by a long waistcoat, and wears round hat with curved brim, riding-breeches, and spurred boots with deep tops."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Leaf 2 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > If you'd know who this is, Read [graphic]