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He displayed this at his home at No. 95 Piccadilly. When he died in 1882 he left his collection to the South Kensington Museum as the V&amp;A was then called.\r\n\r\nRichard Dighton (1795-1880) is known for his portraits of prominent men of fashionin London, Cheltenham and Worcester. This portrait is typical of his work in being full-length profile and set against a blank background with just a shadow and small patch of ground below. The artist began his career as a caricaturist following in the footsteps of his father Robert Dighton (1752-1814). Richard made around ten or twelve caricatures a year between 1817 and 1824 of prominent Londoners including merchants, politicians, aristocrats, lawyers and bankers. From 1824 he began to turn more to portrait painting in watercolours and after 1835 also produced lithographs. \n","physicalDescription":"Full length profile, facing left, holding an eye glass to his eye","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Joseph Brown","id":"A26684"},"association":{"text":"engraver","id":"x30813"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Richard Dighton","id":"A20897"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"after"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"chine colle","id":"AAT256021"},{"text":"stipple etching","id":"x38052"},{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"},{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Stipple etching on chine-collé, engraved lettering, etched facsimile signature","categories":[{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"PP","shelf":"47","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1835-1855","earliest":"1830-01-01","latest":"1855-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Date based on age of sitter"}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.848-1966","id":"O695436"},"association":"Version"},{"object":{"text":"E.847-1966","id":"O695437"},"association":"Duplicate"},{"object":{"text":"29390B","id":"O973086"},"association":"Duplicate"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"451","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"16/10/2012","earliest":"2012-10-16","latest":"2012-10-16"},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"297","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"16/10/2012","earliest":"2012-10-16","latest":"2012-10-16"},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"228","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"16/10/2012","earliest":"2012-10-16","latest":"2012-10-16"},"part":"platemark","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"154","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"16/10/2012","earliest":"2012-10-16","latest":"2012-10-16"},"part":"platemark","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'John Jones'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed with facsimile signature"},{"content":"ENGRAVED BY JOSEPH BROWN, FROM A SKETCH BY RICHARD DEIGHTON.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered"}],"objectHistory":"John Jones (c1800-1882) born in Middlesex, apprecticed to a tailor and established himself c1825 as a tailor and army clothier in Waterloo Place, retired 1850 but retaining a share in the business, in 1865 moving to Piccadilly. He formed a magnificant collection of pictures, enamels, miniatures, porcelain, furniture, ivories, which he bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum.\n\n\nThis impression 'received from Stores', 1882. (Accessions Register)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Portrait of John Jones stipple-etched by Joseph Brown after Richard Dighton, ca. 1835-1855.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1966 </u> pub. 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