The lance exercise, : in three divisions, / drawn by Denis Dighton, and etched by Richard Dighton.
Denis Dighton (London 1792 – St Servan 1827)
Category
Books
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100883
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2] p., 9, 8, 8 leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; fol. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Dighton's Lance Exercise / 25 Coloured Etchings / Drawn and Etched by Denis and Richard Dighton / The "Milne" copy realized £47 at Sotheby's in 1913 / This is the second copy I have seen, and can trace no record of another. F.A.C.B.". Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Victor Staunton Sandeman 17th Lancers'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half blue morocco, blue sheep over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The lance exercise'; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Denis Dighton (London 1792 – St Servan 1827), original artist Richard Dighton (1795/6 - 1880), engraver (printmaker)