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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 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].
3. 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].
4. 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]
5. Simon Lord Lovat (beheaded 1747) / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Maddocks, W., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [179-?]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 790.00.00.01 Box 115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly, rotund Lord Lovat is seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book (entitled "Memoirs" in the original by William Hogarth) and quill pen in an ink bottle
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., and For a discussion of the original see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Peerage, British, Jacobites, and Rebellions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Lord Lovat (beheaded 1747) / [graphic]
6. Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy of William Hogarth's portrait of Simon Lord Lovat as an elderly, rotund man seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book (entitled "Memoirs" in the original by William Hogarth) and quill pen in an ink bottle
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Page 293"--Upper right corner., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., For a discussion of the original see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of sheet: Copy., and On page 123 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobites, Obesity, Peerage, British, and Rebellions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
7. Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 25th 1746.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Plate 56. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 46. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly, rotund Lord Lovat is seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book entitled "Memoirs" and quill pen in an ink bottle
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State from Paulson., "Price 1 shilling.", Formerly on page 123 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator., and Sheet trimmed to: 35.6 x 22.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Peerage, British, Rebellions, and Traitors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
8. Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 25th 1746.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 56. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 46. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly, rotund Lord Lovat is seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book entitled "Memoirs" and quill pen in an ink bottle
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State from Paulson., "Price 1 shilling.", On page 123 in volume 2., and Sheet trimmed to: 35.8 x 22.9 cm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Peerage, British, Rebellions, and Traitors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
9. Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, August 25th 1746.
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 56+ Box 200
- Collection Title:
- Plate 56. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 46. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An elderly, rotund Lord Lovat is seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book entitled "Memoirs" and quill pen in an ink bottle
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State from Paulson., and "Price 1 shilling."
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Peerage, British, Rebellions, and Traitors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]