Dighton's

Robert Dighton. (c.1752 – 1814).
Richard Dighton. (1795 – 1880).
Both Father and Son produced many portrait etchings. Usually they were single figures with little or no background.

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	Dighton. THE GOLDEN BALL. Published by Dighton. May 1819. 12¼ x 7¾. Original colour with good margins. Edward Hughes Ball Hughes stands in profile forefinger extended. He is dressed as a Dandy. Ball Hughes (originally Ball), was known as The Golden Ball. He was a social celebrity who inherited a fortune from his uncle, Admiral Hughes. B. M. 13352. £70.
	Dighton. A VIEW OF A LAKE. Drawn and etched by Richard Dighton. May 1818. Published by T. McLean. Haymarket. 10¾ x 7¾. Original colour with good margins. Not in B. M. £60.
	Dighton. A View of Norfolk. Published February 1st 1796 by R. Dighton, No. 12 Charing Cross. 8¼ x 9¾. Original colour, trimmed within the plate mark but outside the border on laid paper with a watermark of 1808. Written in ink above the image, in an early hand, is, “Charles 11th Duke of Norfolk”. “Died 1815”. B. M. 8866. £40.
	R. Dighton. A Discharg’d Fife=r. Published by T. McLean, Haymarket. April 25th 1821. 7 x 12. Original colour with large margins An engraving of Lord Fife, fashionably dressed, wearing full, strapped trousers. He is walking along a pavement and using a cane. Fife (1776-1857), M.P. for Banffshire, was dismissed from his place as Lord of the Bedchamber for voting against the malt tax. B. M. 14264. £60.
	Dighton. A VIEW FROM BRAZEN NOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD. Published by Dighton, Char. Cross, May 1808. 7¾ x 10. Original colour, trimmed onto/within the plate mark. On laid paper with old pen script next to image describing William Cleaver. A portrait of William Cleaver, (1742 – 1815), Principal of Brasenose College 1785 – 1809. He had also been Bishop of Chester. B. M. 11069. £40
	Dighton. A View from Magdalen College, Cambridge. Published by Dighton. Char. Cross June 1809. 8 x 10¾. Original colour with reasonable margins. Some creases and small wormholes. William Gretton was Master from 1797. B. M. 11400. £30.
	Dighton. A View from St John’s College Cambridge. Published May 1809, by Dighton Char. Cross. 8 x 10¾. Original colour with reasonable margins. Tear into the title, not reaching the image and some worm holes. Dr Wood, at this time a fellow, and afterwards Master (1815 – 39). The most influential man at the University. B. M. 11399. £30.
	R. Dighton. Vil you give us a glass OF GIN. I’ll see you D___N’D FIRST. Published January 4th 1793 by R. Dighton. 5¾ x 7¾. Original colour with large margins on laid paper. A large buxom woman looks alluringly towards a scowling man with a bunch of carrots in his arm. She is asking for a drink of Gin, which is being refused very sternly by the man. B. M. 8396. £85.
	R. Dighton. OLD Q-UIZ THE OLD GOAT OF PICCADILLY. Published February 25th 1796, by R. Dighton Charing Cross. 9¼ x 9¾. Original colour with reasonable margins on laid paper with a watermark of 1808. The Duke of Queensbury is walking beside a buxom young milliner. Beneath the title is, “A Shining Star – in the British Peerage And a usefull Ornament to Society ____ Fudge". B. M. 8867. £90.
	Dighton. A View near Hyde Park Corner. Published Feb. 1802 by Dighton. Char. Cross. 5½ x 8. Original colour on laid paper and trimmed onto/within the plate mark. “Mr Tattersall” is written in an early hand at the top. A portrait of Edmund Tattersall in his rostrum. B. M. 9901. £50.
	Dighton. A Noble Duke. taken on the Steyne at Brighton. Published November 20th 1801 by Dighton. Char. Cross. 8¼ x 10¼. Original colour, trimmed within the plate mark, on laid paper, with slight marks. Written in ink above the image, in an early hand, is, “Augustus Henry 3rd Duke of Grafton”. “Died 1811”. B. M. 9742. £35.
	Dighton. A Near Guess. Published by T. McLean 26, Haymarket 1824. 6¾ x 9½. Original colour, with good margins, with a watermark of 1827. A middle-aged man stands in profile with both gloved hands resting on an umbrella, from his mouth comes the words, “Y.C. Tallow 30/-“. He is Thomas Tooke, (1774 – 1858). He was a partner in Stephen Thornton & Co. until 1826. This is a third state issue with the name Mr. Tooke inscribed on the pavement. B. M. 14536. £35.
	R. Dighton. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. Published by Dighton Spring Gardens. (c.1810?). 8½ x 11. Original colour and good margins. The oar is inscribed ‘Moll Muggins Billingsgate’ and the rough looking women travesties the lines below which end with ‘Like monument of Grecian art’ B. M. 11607. £100.
	R. Dighton. IF YOU’D KNOW WHO THIS IS, READ. Drawn Etched and Published by Dighton. Charing Cross. (c.1805?). 5 x 10. Original colour and large margins. Probably a portrait of Read the Bow St. Officer. B. M. 10454. £75.
	R. Dighton. MADAME CATALINI IN SEMIRAMIDE. Her first appearance in England, December 13th 1806. Drawn Etched & Published by Dighton 21 New Bond St. December 1806. 8¼ x 11. Original colour. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark top and bottom and small margins at the sides. Slight marks. A portrait of the famous soprano. B. M. 10628. £85.
	R. Dighton. A NOBLE DUKE. Taken on the Steyne at Brighton. Published November 1801 by Dighton Charring Cross. 8½ x 11. Original colour with large margins. Slight marks. A portrait of the Duke of Grafton. B. M. 9742. £70.
	R. Dighton. AGAMEMNON A GREAT GENERAL. Taken on the Steyne at Brighton. 8 x11. Original colour with good margins. William Dalrymple who was colonel of the 47th Foot and Lt-General of Chelsea hospital. B. M. 10289. £85.
	Dighton. A GENERAL VIEW OF OLD ENGLAND. Drawn, Etched, & Published September 1808 by Dighton, Charring Cross. 10¼ x 11¾. Original colour with small margins top and bottom and trimmed onto/within the plate mark at the sides. Lt - General Richard England who was a veteran of the American war and had been one of the first colonists of Western Upper Canada. B. M. 11075. £80.
	Richard Dighton. (HON. ARTHUR UPTON). Drawn Etch’d & Published by Rich. Dighton. 1817. 8 x 10½. Original colour with small margins and slight marks. A portrait of Major Arthur Percy Upton of the 1st Foot Guards, the third son of Baron Templeton. B. M. 12911. £45.