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Robert Dighton
1752-1814
A view taken from Bladuds Buildings, Bath / drawn, etchd, & pubd by R. Dighton ...
[London] : Pubd by R. Dighton, 6. Charg Cross, Jany. 1809.
etching, hand colored
image: approx. 221 x 200 mm; plate mark: 270 x 200 mm; sheet: 356 x 246 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.710
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Library's copy is annotated in pencil on recto: John Morris High Counsel who retired from the Bar in --- from ill health & resided at Bath. A celebrated counsellor.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an elderly man, identified by George as Councillor John Morris, shambling from right to left in profile, right hand on his stick, left hand in his coat-pocket. He wears a hat with a curved brim, a curled, old-fashioned brown wig, a long coat, and an overcoat, with ill-fitting gaiters reaching to the thigh. Two seals hang from a fob.
Associated names
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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