Robert Dighton Etching The Specious Orator Portrait Of The Auctioneer James Christie 1794 James Ward and his niece

and his niece

he turned increasingly toward sculpture in a more or less realist style

Watercolour on wove paper 1788

5 cms to mounted oval

Some general timestaining and marking

Robert Dighton Etching The Specious Orator Portrait Of The Auctioneer James Christie 1794 James Ward and his nieceRobert Dighton 1752 1814. Hand coloured etching. "The Specious Orator. Will your Ladyship do me the honor to say 50,000 a mere trifle a brilliant of the first water. An unheard of price for such a lot, surely." Portrait of The Auctioneer James Christie. 1794 laid on card 15 by 20. 5 cms. Pl. James Christie (17301803) was a Scottish auctioneer who founded the auction house Christie's.