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1.
[Young lady and gentleman descending steps, near pond] [art original].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[after 1780?]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 2 Box D117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man holds a lady's hand as she descends a flight of stairs overlooking a pond. To the left in the distance are shown two figures in a row boat on the water
Description:
Inscription in pencil on verso: Cut mount to fit shape of inlay piece., Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., For further information, consult library staff., and Watermark.
Subject (Topic):
Couples and Etiquette
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Young lady and gentleman descending steps, near pond] [art original].

2.
[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 prodigal son destitute, seated in the countryside watching pigs eat at a trough; the prodigal son returns to his father's home and is embraced, at harvest time; the prodigal son at a feasting at the family table, in celebration of his return. Musicians play their instruments in the gallery above
Alternative Title:
Prodigal son
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Robert Dighton., Oval images (11.0 x 15.3 cm) drawn on rectangular sheets laid paper (12.5 x 16.5 cm), one with a partial watermark, tipped-in to 19th century album leaves; bound in later (probably 20th century) antique-style half morocco over marbled boards, with red morocco title 'Prodigal Son' to spine., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Prodigal son (Parable), Sin, and Parables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Drawings for The prodigal son] [art original].

3.
[The sailor riding to Portsmouth] [art original].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[1782]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 3 Box D117
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A sailor, holding a bowl of water, sits on a bucking horse. The townspeople seem to mock the sailor
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing: Published by Carington Bowles, 20 May 1782., Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Sailors and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The sailor riding to Portsmouth] [art original].

4.
[The barber riding to Margate] [art original].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[1782]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 1 Box D205
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A scene outside a posting inn: A man, his hat flying off, rides right to left clutching his horse round the neck as he has lost his stirrups. The horse is rearing, startled by the drum and fifes of a recruiting party in Guards' uniforms led by an officer with a drawn sword and followed by three recruits wearing ribbon favours in their hats. The rider is fashionably dressed in riding clothes, a pair of curling tongs falls from his pocket; a box which he was carrying has fallen to the ground and various articles of the barber's trade have fallen out: tresses of hair, a packet of "Powder", a comb, razor, &c. In the background is a three-storied inn, with bay-windows on all floors. Spectators watch from the windows. The sign hangs from a standard (right); behind (left) are outhouses inscribed "Licensed to [hire] post horses"; a coach stands in front of them
Description:
Title from print based on this drawing. See British Museum catalogue., Number inscribed on drawing in lower left corner: 474., and Original drawing for a mezzotint published by Carington Bowles, 20 May 1782. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6158.
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Recruiting & enlistment, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The barber riding to Margate] [art original].

5.
[A master parson with a good living] [art original].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1782]
Call Number:
Drawings D574 no. 6 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 63
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Families, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Servants, Sconces, and Rugs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A master parson with a good living] [art original].

6.
[Labour in vain, or, Fatty in distress] [graphic].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[published as the act directs, 9 November 1784]
Call Number:
784.11.09.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Fatty in distress
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '541' in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher information and series number from British Museum catalogue., Artist from Sotheby's catalog., Publication date assigned by the cataloging agency based on the series number., Temporary local subject terms: Spas: St. George's spa -- Quizzing glasses -- Wickets -- Trades: porters -- Walking staves., and Mounted to 36 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dogs, Fans (Accessories), Hats, Health resorts, Obesity, and Shawls
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Labour in vain, or, Fatty in distress] [graphic].

7.
[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 sticks. There are a few women; one who has fainted but is in an erect position owing to the crowd, is being revived with smelling-salts. A man is vomiting. In the foreground two lady's hats, the ribbons partly torn off, lie on the ground with shoes and the broken fragments of a shoe-buckle. In the background two ladies and a man are passing through a narrow door into the theatre itself; through the doorway is seen a section of an upper gallery and boxes below it, both crowded. On the exterior wall, above the heads of the crowd, is a playbill ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the related print
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"., Unsigned and undated; artist attribution and approximate date from those assigned to the related print in the British Museum catalogue. See no. 6769 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., Inscribed on poster in upper center portion of image: By Command of their MAJESTIES. At the Theatre Royal Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter And Euphrasia Mrs Siddons To which will be added The Devil to Pay Tomorrow the Tragedy of Hamlet HAMLET by MR KEMBLE., and Laid down on wove paper with watermark "B. E. & S."
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].

8.
Keep within compass ; Industry produceth wealth [graphic].

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1785]
Call Number:
785.00.00.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Industry produceth wealth
Description:
Title from item., Publication date and the text, 'Published as the Act directs' removed from the plate. Date from British Museum catalogue., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Series number removed from the plate. Numbered '543' in series. Cf. British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Compass (instrument for drawing) -- Masons -- Farmyards -- Harvesting -- Fishing -- Mill-wheels -- Windmills -- Country churches -- Bags of money -- Shipwrecks -- Gambling -- Drunkenness -- Jails -- Gallows -- Male costume, 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Keep within compass ; Industry produceth wealth [graphic].

9.
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., Artist from the Sotheby's catalog and Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Variant issue of No. 7792 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Expressions of speech: 'a deep one' -- Bludgeons., and Mounted to 25 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Aug. 21, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A deep one [graphic].

10.
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, description of the related print
Alternative Title:
Drap of whiskey
Description:
Title written in ink beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "404" in ink in lower left., and For the related print, published by Bowles & Carver, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1738.
Subject (Topic):
Whiskey, Bottles, and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A drap of whisky [art original]