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[Richard Dickinson] Rich.d Dickison Behold the Governor of Scarborough Spaw / The Uglyest Fisz you ever Saw / Yet when you View the Beauty of his Mind / In him a Second Esop you may find
Sold by John Bowles [?Printseller in] Cheapside, London [n.d., c.1720.].
A very scarce mezzotint, Sheet 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to image.
Caricature of Richard Dickinson (1669 - 1738), a shoe-cleaner and ginger-bread vendor who used the money he accumulated to build facilities for visitors to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, who came to drink the waters. Dickinson had enlarged extremities, and he may have suffered from acromegaly.
Russell: English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits", 32a.
[Ref: 64355] £340.00
A very scarce mezzotint, Sheet 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to image.
Caricature of Richard Dickinson (1669 - 1738), a shoe-cleaner and ginger-bread vendor who used the money he accumulated to build facilities for visitors to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, who came to drink the waters. Dickinson had enlarged extremities, and he may have suffered from acromegaly.
Russell: English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits", 32a.
[Ref: 64355] £340.00