Dighton (Richard)

further captioned ‘Mr Richardson’ on the pavement in the image, a classic Dighton caricature portrait, full length in profile walking to our right, this is of Thomas Richardson (1771-1853), a Quaker and financier, originally from Stamford Hill in London, who was an early investor in the Stockton & Darlington Railway, founded by his cousin, Edward Pease. By the time this portrait was re-issued by Thomas McLean, Richardson had also become a partner in the locomotive manufacturing firm of Robert Stephenson & Co. He later went on, with his cousins, to be the owner and developer of the port town of Middlesborough, to better serve the railway’s primary activity of exporting coal,

etching with original hand-colouring on wove paper, 265 x 185 mm. (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in), a short repaired tear in the left margin, [BM Satires 14065A],