Richard Dighton - D10808
Thomas Massa Alsager ('The mirror of the Times')
by and published by Richard Dighton
published August 1823
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Portraits in Profile: the Dighton Family
Richard Dighton
1796?-1880
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'The Mirror of the Times', Thomas Massa Alsager
(1779-1846),
published 1823
Alsager joined The Times in 1817 as a city correspondent and
in 1819 he was appointed business manager. He worked there for
a total of twenty nine years. Alsager was also a talented musician
and was a friend of James Henry Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb and
William Wordsworth.
The reversed imprint which appears to the left of the figure
is the trade mark of the copperplate maker Russell Pontifrex
of 22 Lisle Street, Soho, London - an indication that Richard,
on occasion, like his father, used the reverse of the plate.
