Beschreibung:

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Intelligence on the Change of Ministry, pen, brush and ink with monochrome washes, numbered '477' in the lower left corner, signed but trimmed in the lower right corner, on laid paper mounted on wove paper support, 330 x 250 mm. (13 x 9 3/4 in), under glass, some spotting and damp-stains, otherwise light cockling and minor surface dirt, framed, [circa 1783]. Provenance: Mr Jeffrey Rose; his executor's sale, Sotheby's, 23rd February 1978, 23rd February 1978, lot 33 Anonymous sale; Ex-collection of David Padbury Engraved: Mezzotint published by Carrington Bowles, 1783 [BM Satires 6348] Literature: Padbury, The Dighton family, their times, caricatures and portraits, 2007, p. 81