"The King, wearing military uniform, walks in profile to the left, bending forward and holding a cocked hat in his right hand, left forefinger extended. He wears a close-fitting wig with side-curl and tail, a star, high cavalry boots without spurs, and a large sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
George the Third aged 72 1810 and George III aged 72 1810
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.17.31., Leaf 1 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.2 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"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
"Mrs. Siddons as Elvira in 'Pizarro'. Her words are from Act III. iii (in Pizarro's tent). She stands with her head turned in profile to the left, right arm extended in a commanding gesture. She wears a high-waisted, quasi-classical dress, with a long cloak bordered with gold, folds of which are twisted round her left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: actors in performance -- Literature: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, iii.3 -- Female costume: theater costume., Leaf 28 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.3 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Siddons" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
"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.
"Two men, wearing patched and ragged clothes, stand together. One (left) stands full-face, arms folded, shoulders hunched, staring to the right with fierce despair. From his pocket issues a bulky document: 'By Law I'm Ruin'd quite'. The other (right) stands in profile to the left, his left hand in his coat-pocket from which hang papers inscribed: 'Spent all my Money & Lost my Cause'; 'Mortgage'; 'Officer's Fees'. He looks down with an expression of angry melancholy."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Doe & Richd. Roe, brothers in law and John Doe and Richd. Roe, brothers in law
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Law: legal fees., Leaf 62 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.8 x 16.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle labelled 'Two Spoonsfull to be taken at Bed time'. On the ground is a pill-box on its side, spilling its contents. He wears two thistles in the breast of his coat; a thistle-plant grows near his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Prescriptions -- Thorn stick canes -- Scotland -- Male costume: 1809 -- Snuff boxes., Leaf 4 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.2 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads & Co. 1808., and Figure identified as "Mr. Ireland" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Ireland, John, 1745-1839
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
"A tall and elegant officer walks left to right and slightly towards the spectator, his hand on the hilt of his sword. He wears cocked hat, high tasselled Hessian boots; gold aiguillettes hang from his right shoulder below the waist. Donald Macdonald, of the 55th Foot, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort William, was commissioned Lieutenant-General in 1810."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant General Macdonald
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher tentatively identified as Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1848,1221.44., Leaf 73 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808.
"Equestrian portrait of Sir George Prevost, full-length, in profile to the right, holding a despatch in his gloved hand and the reins in the other, a cocked hat on his head, dressed in military uniform with light blue facings and trousers, an epaulette and an aiguillette on his shoulder, spurs on the heels of his boots, his black horse standing quietly with a a saddle-blanket and a docked tail, a military camp on the hills."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant General Sir George Provost and Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Dighton; see description of later state in the British Museum online catalogue., Early state, before Dighton's title and publication line burnished from plate and replaced with those of Thomas Palser. For the later state with the title "Sir George Prevost, Governor of Canada", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1848,1221.47., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 513., and Leaf 70 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Prevost, George, 1767-1816
Subject (Topic):
Governors, British, Military officers, Military camps, and Horses
"Norfolk (left) and Fox (right) sit close together, hands on knees, the left knee of Norfolk and the right knee of Fox touching; their heads are turned in profile, each gazing fixedly at the other with a melancholy expression. On the back of Norfolk's chair is a ducal coronet; Fox sits on a stool. At their feet is an open book: 'List of his Maje[stys] \ Privy Council \ Earl of.. Lord.. \ Duke of D...\ Earl of... \ Rt Hon. C. J. Fox [scored through] Duke of Leed[s]'. By Norfolk is a torn paper: 'Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding York . .' Under Fox's feet: 'A Seat in Parliament to be disposed off enquire at next General Election'. Under this is another paper: 'Speech Whig Club'. Their words (or thoughts) are etched beneath the title (left): 'Charley, keep a civil \ Tongue in your Head'. (right) 'Jocky of Norfolk \ be not so bold'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Leaf 64 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching and stipple engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.1 x 15.0 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25th, 1798, by Dighton, Charg. Cross
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, Duke of, 1751-1799., and Whig Club (London, England)
Print of Molyneux in a fighting stance, likely during his fight against English champion Tom Cribb of 1810 or 1811
Description:
Thomas "The Moor" Molineaux, although usually called Tom Molineaux (which is sometimes spelled Molyneaux) was an African-American bare-knuckle boxer and former slave. He spent much of his career in Great Britain and Ireland, where he had some notable successes. He arrived in England in 1809 and started his fighting career there in 1810. It was his two fights against Tom Cribb, widely viewed as the Champion of England that brought fame to Molineaux, although he lost both contests. His prizefighting career ended in 1815. After a tour that took him to Scotland and Ireland, he died in Galway, Ireland in 1818, aged 34., Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., and Leaf 16 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818, and Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818.
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers, Prints, and Boxers (Sports)