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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., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "407" in ink in lower left., and For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
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., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "406" in ink in lower left., and For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
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., Signed by the artist in lower right corner of image., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., and Numbered "557" beneath lower left corner of image.
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 decorated with a scene showing a man and woman dancing; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item., Variant state, without plate number, of No. 3793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977.
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., Attributed to Dighton based on published print of the same title., Date based on publication date. Original sketch of British Museum 8395A?, Robert Dighton, English draughtsman, 1752-1814., and Watermark.
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, 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]

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., 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].

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 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].

9.
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].

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 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].