An Illustrious Consort
Caricature Portrait
1818 (made)
1818 (made)
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Portrait of Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louise of Hesse-Cassel, wife of Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge. Lettered with title and 'Drawn Etchd [...] by Richd. Dighton 1818 July. Pubd by T McLean Haymarket' and inscribed in pencil 'Dutchess of Cambridge'.
Object details
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| Title | An Illustrious Consort (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching, coloured by hand |
| Brief description | Richard Dighton. One of a group of 45 caricature portraits. London, early 1820s. |
| Physical description | Portrait of Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louise of Hesse-Cassel, wife of Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge. Lettered with title and 'Drawn Etchd [...] by Richd. Dighton 1818 July. Pubd by T McLean Haymarket' and inscribed in pencil 'Dutchess of Cambridge'. |
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| Object history | This print is from a set of caricature portraits originally published as single plates. These were collected together into two volumes with the titles City Characters, Drawn and Etched by Richard Dighton (referred to as City Characters, published by T. McLean, London, 1924); and Characters at the West End of the Town, Drawn and Etched by Richard Dighton (referred to as West End Characters), published by McLean, 1825. The latter volume contains an additional plate by George Cruikshank. A number of these portraits were included in a reduced form in a roll entitles The Mirror of Fashion, published by W. Samms, London, 1822-3, re-issued by McLean, 1825 (BM:S.14817), an impression of which is in the Department of Prints and Drawings, E.2257-1929. The caricatures are discussed and listed by Sir Henry Hake in 'Dighton Caricatures', The Pint Collector's Quarterly, Vol.13, London, 1926. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963 |
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| Accession number | E.1867-1953 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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