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1.
The discord of matrimony [art original]

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1796]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 10 Box D117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple, the lady seated with her back to her husband, turns with knit-brow to look over her shoulder at her husband who looks at her with anger or disgust and distain
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath image.
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Spouses, and Anger
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The discord of matrimony [art original]

2.
The harmony of courtship [art original]

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1796]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 9 Box D117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple holding hands lean toward each other as they gaze into one another's eyes with affection
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath image.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, and Jewelry
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The harmony of courtship [art original]

3.
Term time, or, The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall [art original]

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[1795]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 7 Box D205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A watercolor drawing of a scene in Westminster Hall with three judges presiding over a crowded courtroom
Alternative Title:
Lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall and Peep into the Court of Kings Bench
Description:
Title "A peep into the Court of Kings Bench" written in lower margin but scored through; a new title "Term time or The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall" is written below in the same hand.
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, Lawyers, Judges, and Juries
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Term time, or, The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall [art original]

4.
Life and death contrasted, or, An essay on woman [graphic].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[not before 1793]
Call Number:
793.00.00.179+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton, standing next to a obleiisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan ...
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, and Pride
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Life and death contrasted, or, An essay on woman [graphic].

5.
Jack in office [art original].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[1793]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 5 Box D117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A exciseman stands in profile facing to the left. His lower lip protrudes, and his chest is thrown out
Description:
Title inscribed in ink, lower right: Jack in office.
Subject (Topic):
Government officials, Excise tax, Inkstands, and Taxes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Jack in office [art original].

6.
A drap of whisky [art original]

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[1792]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 11 Box D117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, ...
Alternative Title:
Drap of whiskey
Description:
Title written in ink beneath image.
Subject (Topic):
Whiskey, Bottles, and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A drap of whisky [art original]

7.
A deep one [graphic].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[21 August 1790]
Call Number:
790.08.21.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. Aug. 21, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A deep one [graphic].

8.
[Drawings for The prodigal son] [art original].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[1780s]
Call Number:
75 D569 780
Image Count:
12
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A series of six drawings illustrating the story of The prodigal son. The six scenes include: The prodigal son receives his patrimony; the prodigal son takes leave of his father; the prodigal son drinking and reveling in the company of harlots; the pro...
Alternative Title:
Prodigal son
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Prodigal son (Parable), Sin, and Parables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings for The prodigal son] [art original].

10.
[The pit door] [art original].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1784]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 12 Box D205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A struggling crowd, partly within and partly without the pit door, a spiked gateway, of Drury Lane Theatre. Men, respectably dressed but of plebeian appearance, stand in the foreground on the outskirts of the crowd or fight their way in, some with st...
Alternative Title:
Porte du parterre
Description:
Title from related print, which bears both the English title "The pit door" and the French title "La porte du parterre".
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823., Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831., and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Crowds, Gates, Doors & doorways, Vomiting, Loss of consciousness, and Signs (Notices)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The pit door] [art original].