Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814, British
Title:: A Lesson Westward, or, A Morning Visit to Betsy Cole
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Inscribed in black ink, in margin, lower right: "Dighton- del"; in brown ink, lower left: "466"; a small part of inscription in ink across the bottom margin remains
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1986.29.371
Classification:: Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: cart | carriage | caricature | courtesan | man | driving | teaching | horse (animal) | pigs | morning
Currently On View:: Not on view
Exhibition History:: Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28)
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
Publications:: Elisabeth Fairman, Roads to rails : revolution in British transport, , New Haven, CT, 1992, p. 10, no. 40, HE243 .F25 1992 (YCBA)
William Wordsworth, The Prelude 1805, Brandeis University Press, Waltham, MA, 2024, p. 55, fig. 3.10, PR5864 .A2 E54 2024 Oversisze (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2012