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Dighton. THE GOLDEN BALL.
Published by Dighton. May 1819.
12¼ x 7¾. Good 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.
BM. 13352.
£70. |
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Dighton. A VIEW OF A LAKE.
Drawn and etched by Richard Dighton. May 1818. Published by
T. McLean. Haymarket.
10¾ x 7¾. Good original colour with good margins.
Not in BM.
£60. |
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Dighton. A View of Norfolk.
Published February 1st 1796 by R. Dighton, No. 12 Charing Cross.
8¼ x 9¾. Good 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. |
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R. Dighton. A Discharg’d Fife=r.
Published by T. McLean, Haymarket. April 25th 1821.
7 x 12. Good 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. |
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Dighton. A View Of Gloucester.
Drawn Etchd. & Published by Richard Dighton. April 1821.
6½ x 11½. Original colour with large margins and
a watermark of 1818
Portrait of the Duke of Gloucester.
Not in the B. M. although they have a photographic record of a
reduced version of this – see B. M. 14817.
£55. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. Good 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Dighton. A VIEW FROM BRAZEN NOSE COLLEGE,
OXFORD.
Published by Dighton, Char. Cross, May, 1808.
8 x 11. Original colour with good margins. Marks in the corners
resulting from old glue marks on the back.
A portrait of William Cleaver, (1742 – 1815), Principal
of Brasenose College 1785 – 1809. He had also been Bishop
of Chester.
B. M. 11069.
£65. |
