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Author/Creator:Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker.
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Title:A view from Magdalen College, Cambridge [graphic] / drawn, etchd. & pubd. by Dighton, Charg. Cross, June 1809.
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Publication:[London] : [Robert Dighton], [June 1809]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 27.2 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Quarto 75 D569 812
- Status:No information available
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Notes:Leaf 50 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Figure identifed as "Dr. Gretton" in pencil at bottom of sheet; this note corrects another pencil annotation, now scored through, identifying the figure as "Dr. Grafton".
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Provenance:Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Medium:laid paper
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Notes:Title etched below image.
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Summary:"Dr. Gretton walks in profile to the left, wearing mortar-board, gown, bands, and cassock. He has a pouched and wrinkled face and short white hair or wig. He holds a handkerchief in his right hand which rests on his breast, the left is in the pocket of his cassock. William Gretton (1736-1813) was Master of Magdalene from 1797, and Vice-Chancellor 1800-1."--British Museum online catalogue.
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In_: Characatures by Dighton. [England], [not before 1812] Leaf 50.
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Variant and related titles:View from Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Format:Visual Material
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References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11400
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Subjects:Gretton, William, 1736-1813--Caricatures and cartoons.
College administrators.
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Genre/Form:Caricatures.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1809.
Etchings--England--London--1809.
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Also listed under:Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist, publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15754091