"The Duke of Grafton stands directed to the left, his head in profile, both (gloved) hands resting on the head of his stick. He wears his accustomed and characteristic dress of an earlier fashion: small tricorne and full-skirted coat buttoned at the waist, with a star, and spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Leaf 30 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Duke of Grafton" in pencil below plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20th, 1801, by Dighton, Charg. Cross
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
"Lord Harrington, in uniform, slim and upright, sits his horse in profile to the right. A cane dangles from his right wrist. He has a leopard's skin saddle-cloth."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched at bottom of image., Leaf 67 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Earl of Harrington" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
"Portrait caricature of George Nugent Grenville when a student at Oxford, whole length, walking in profile to left, wearing academic gown and hat, tight jacket, breeches, glove on his right hand, holding another glove."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Leaf 40 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identifed as "Ld. G. Grenville" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"A tall imposing man, wearing a clerical wig and bands, mortar-board, gown, and cassock, stands directed slightly to the left, head in profile, one gloved hand on his breast, the right arm hanging by his side."--British Museum online catalogue and "He is William Cleaver (1742-1815), Principal of Brasenose College 1785-1809, who continually lived there, giving it a (temporary) leadership in scholarship and discipline, according to De Quincey. He was Bishop of Chester 1787, Bangor 1800, St. Asaph 1806. ... He was Lord Grenville's tutor, and was active in his election (see British Museum Satires No. 11384)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 39 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.9 x 20.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Bishop of Bristol" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"Dr. Gretton walks in profile to the left, wearing mortar-board, gown, bands, and cassock. He has a pouched and wrinkled face and short white hair or wig. He holds a handkerchief in his right hand which rests on his breast, the left is in the pocket of his cassock. William Gretton (1736-1813) was Master of Magdalene from 1797, and Vice-Chancellor 1800-1."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View from Magdalene College, Cambridge
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 50 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identifed as "Dr. Gretton" in pencil at bottom of sheet; this note corrects another pencil annotation, now scored through, identifying the figure as "Dr. Grafton".
"A tall slim man stands in profile to the left, wearing a long gown over lay dress and holding out a round hat. He is sharp-featured, and wears (?) a wig simulating short natural hair with a curl at the neck."--British Museum online catalogue and "Identified as Samuel Kilner (1732-1815), Fellow of Merton till 1815, Sub-warden in 1814. He appears younger than his age."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 44 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.3 x 19.6 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Mr. Kilner" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"A young man in cap and gown over fashionable dress, with short but not cropped hair, walks in profile to the right, his arms by his sides, bending slightly forward. He is Winchcombe Hartley who matriculated 9 Dec. 1806, aged eighteen, and was a Fellow of Merton 1808-13."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 45 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Mr. Hartley" in pencil below plate mark.
"Dr. Eveleigh stands in profile to the right, holding to his person his voluminous gown. He wears a clerical wig, mortar-board, and cassock. He is tall and dignified with sharply cut, alert, sensitive features."--British Museum online catalogue and "Eveleigh, Provost of Oriel 1781-1814, was Bampton Lecturer in 1792. He did much to raise the college to its high position in the early nineteenth century, and was a vigorous university reformer."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 49 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.8 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Dr. Eveligh" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"Dr. Barnes, wearing cap and gown, a clerical wig, and bands, stands in profile to the right. He is tall, with a fierce Punch-like profile. A second imprint is etched in reversed characters in the shadow at his feet: 'Whitt . . . N° 31 Shoe La[ne], London'."--British Museum online catalogue and "Francis Barnes, D.D., Master of Peterhouse from 1788, was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1813 to 1838, but gave no lectures. He was 'a disreputable survival from the eighteenth century'. Winstanley, 'Early Victorian Cambridge', 1940, pp. 80, 175."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Leaf 53 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Dr. Barnes" in lower left corner of sheet.