Portraits
in Profile:
the Dighton Family

'The Specious Orator' James
Christie
by Robert Dighton (1751-1814), published 1794
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Specialist bibliography
D. Rose, Life, Times and Recorded
Works of Robert Dighton (1752-1814), Actor, Artist and Printseller
and Three of his Artist Sons (Great Britain: Dennis Rose,
1981) N.B. a small number of copies are available from the
author; please contact the Heinz Archive and Library for details.
Dr S. Blake, An Interesting
Group: Portraits by Richard Dighton, (exhibition catalogue,
Cheltenham City Art Gallery and Museum, 1983).
Sir H. Hake, 'Dighton Caricatures',
Print Collectors Quarterly, XIII, 1926, pp. 137-55; XIII,
1926, pp. 237-47.
D. Patton, 'Richard and Joshua
Discovered', Antique Collector, LIV, 1983, pp. 86-89.
A. P. Oppé, English
Drawings of the Stuart and Georgian Periods in the Collection
of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, (London, 1950).
A.E. Haswell Miller and N.P.
Dawnay, Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection
of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, (London, 1966).
D. C. Calthorp, 'Robert and Richard
Dighton', Connoisseur, XIV, 1906, pp. 231-6.
R. Edwards, 'The Watercolours
of Robert Dighton', Apollo, XIV, 1931, pp. 98-102.
A. Bury, 'Unknown Drawings by
Robert Dighton in the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose', Connoisseur,
CLXVI, 1967, pp. 237-241.
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