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Robert Dighton, (British, 1751-1814) Intelligence on the Peace; and The Frenchman in Distress The second: 33.6 x 25.2cm (13 1/4 x 9 15/16in) (2) image 1
Robert Dighton, (British, 1751-1814) Intelligence on the Peace; and The Frenchman in Distress The second: 33.6 x 25.2cm (13 1/4 x 9 15/16in) (2) image 2
Robert Dighton, (British, 1751-1814) Intelligence on the Peace; and The Frenchman in Distress The second: 33.6 x 25.2cm (13 1/4 x 9 15/16in) (2) image 3
Robert Dighton, (British, 1751-1814) Intelligence on the Peace; and The Frenchman in Distress The second: 33.6 x 25.2cm (13 1/4 x 9 15/16in) (2) image 4
Robert Dighton, (British, 1751-1814) Intelligence on the Peace; and The Frenchman in Distress The second: 33.6 x 25.2cm (13 1/4 x 9 15/16in) (2) image 5
Selected Items from the Estate of Michael Winner
Lot 76

Robert Dighton,
(British, 1751-1814)
Intelligence on the Peace; and The Frenchman in Distress The second: 33.6 x 25.2cm (13 1/4 x 9 15/16in) (2)

28 November – 16 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,816 inc. premium

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Robert Dighton, (British, 1751-1814)

Intelligence on the Peace; and The Frenchman in Distress
Both signed lower right: Dighton del, the first inscribed lower left and lower centre: 495 Intelligence on the Peace; the second inscribed lower left and lower centre: 5 Pay me me Fare and be damn'd to you - Me ad [sic] only von Sheelin pon my Hona / The Frenchman i[n] Distress
Pen and black ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour, on laid paper
33.2 x 24.7cm (13 1/16 x 9 3/4in).The second: 33.6 x 25.2cm (13 1/4 x 9 15/16in) (2)

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Provenance
Both, Carington Bowles (1724-1793);
by family descent until sold, London, Sotheby's, 30 April 1953, lot 464 (as an album), bt. Sabin, £720;
with The Sabin Galleries, London;
by whom sold to Jeffrey Rose, 1 May 1953, £900;
his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, the first lot 12; the second lot 17;
with Abbott & Holder, London;
Michael Winner (1934-2012)

Engraved
for Carington Bowles (1724-1793), the first circa 1783; the second 1797. Example of the mezzotints are held at British Museum, no. 1935,0522.1.53 and 1935,0522.1.24.

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