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1. A view from the Pump Room, Bath [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1809]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 58. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly man with an alert, wrinkled face, stands very erect in profile to the left, his hands resting on his cane. He wears an old-fashioned cocked hat with cockade, with white or powdered hair in a neat (military) pigtail; his long double-breasted blue coat has a small scarlet facing on the high collar; his shoes have large buckles. He is General Robert Donkin, father of Sir R. F. Donkin, died 1821, aged 94."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 58 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Genl. Donkin" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Donkin, Robert, 1727-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Generals, British, Older people, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from the Pump Room, Bath [graphic]
2. A view taken from Bladuds Buildings, Bath [print]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1809]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 57. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly man shambles from right to left in profile, right hand on his stick, left hand in his coat-pocket. He wears a hat with a curved brim, a curled, old-fashioned brown wig, a long coat, and an overcoat, with ill-fitting gaiters reaching to the thigh. Two seals hang from a fob. He is Councillor John Morris or Morriss."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Leaf 57 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Morris, John, active 1809
- Subject (Topic):
- Older people and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view taken from Bladuds Buildings, Bath [print]
3. A view taken from Chatham Row, Bath [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1809]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 56. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly man of clerical appearance, stands in profile to the right knees slightly flexed, right hand resting on a heavy cane, left hand raised in an expository gesture. He wears an ill-fitting powdered wig with a curl at the back, a round hat with the brim turned up at the side, long buttoned coat, wrinkled stockings, high-quartered buckled shoes, and gloves. Identified as Dr. John Shepherd."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Leaf 56 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bath (England).
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Older people, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view taken from Chatham Row, Bath [graphic]
4. Descriptions of battles by sea & land in two volumes, from the Kings Library's at Greenwich & Chelsea / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1801]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 63. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two jovial old pensioners sit together on a bench, smoking and gesticulating. The sailor (left) holds a frothing tankard, and raises his pipe above his head; his wooden leg extends stiffly. The soldier turns his head in profile to the left, gesticulating with his right hand; he has lost his left arm. Both are neatly dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Descriptions of battles by sea and land
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: wooden leg -- Greenwich Hospital pensioner -- Chelsea Hospital pensioner -- Pensioners., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospitals -- Chelsea Hospital., Leaf 63 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.1 x 17.3 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Hospitals, Prosthesis, Amputees, Older people, Veterans, Disabled veterans, Peg legs, Pipes (Smoking), and Drinking vessels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Descriptions of battles by sea & land in two volumes, from the Kings Library's at Greenwich & Chelsea / [graphic]