The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Intelligence on the Peace
- Pen and black ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour, on laid paper
- 13 1/16 × 9 ¾ inches · 332 × 247 mm
- Signed lower right: ‘Dighton del’
Inscribed lower left and lower centre: ‘495 Intelligence on the Peace’
Drawn 1783
Engraved: Mezzotint for Carington Bowles published in 1783
Collections
- Carington Bowles (1724-1793);
- by family descent until sold, London, Sotheby's, 30 April 1953, lot 464 (as an album), bt. Sabin, £720;
- The Sabin Galleries, London;
- Jeffrey Rose, bought 1 May 1953, £900;
- Rose sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 February 1978, lot 12;
- with Abbott & Holder, London;
- Michael Winner (1934-2012);
- Winner sale, Bonham’s, London, 16 December 2024, lot.76;
- Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.