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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814, British, A Jack in Office, 1793
- Title:
A Jack in Office
- Additional Title(s):
Mr. William Jackson - Commissioner for Excise
- Date:
- 1793
- Medium:
- Etching, hand-colored on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/16 x 9 11/16 inches (35.7 x 24.6 cm), Plate: 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (20 x 15 cm), Image: 7 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches (18.4 x 15 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in blue pen, on back, upper left: "4086"; in graphite, upper left: "2.50"; lower left: "21 (circled)"; lower right: "3.69"
Watermark: "M 1816"
Lettered, center: "Excise | Book"; lower left: "R Dighton del."; lower center: "Pub. Jan.y 4th 1793 | A JACK in OFFICE."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.9712
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | dog (animal) | feather | genre subject | gesturing | grass | hat | jar | lips (mouth) | man | posing | quill | satire | standing | urinating | wig
- Associated People:
- Jackson, William (fl. 1793), Excise man
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26017
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