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1. The specious orator [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 25, 1794.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 10. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A half length portrait of Christie standing in his auctioneer's rostrum, the upper part of which forms the base of the design. He leans insinuatingly to the left, his head in profile, spectacles on his forehead, his hammer delicately raised."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Three lines of text below title: Will your ladyship do me the honor to say £50-000 - a mere trifle - a brilliant of the first water, an unheard of price for such a lot, surely., Temporary local subject terms: Auctioneers' hammers., Leaf 10 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.8 x 14.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Mr. Christie" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by R. Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Christie, Mr. 1730-1803 (James),
- Subject (Topic):
- Auctioneers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The specious orator [graphic]