Jun 07, 2017 - Sale 2450

Sale 2450 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(CARICATURE.) Dighton, Robert. English caricature album. 50 full-length etched caricature portraits on wove paper. Oblong 4to, 9x14 1/2 inches, 19th century half morocco over pebbled cloth, spine gilt, lightly rubbed; all fully colored by a contemporary hand; front endpaper with corner loss, scattered edge soiling and minor marginal flaws, most plates with personages identified in faint ink below printed title, evidence of several leaves being removed from the rear. London, 1796-1815

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Collection of Dighton plates satirizing social, political, military, aristocratic and academic personalities. Includes a peg-legged Brook Watson, lord mayor of London who at an early age suffered the loss of his leg as documented in Copley's famous painting Watson and the Shark; William Molyneux as Lord Dashalong; George III aged 72; and many plates with Oxford and Cambridge interest.