Tower at Pembroke Castle
c. 1770/1782
Artist, Scottish, 1728 - 1812
John Clerk, of Eldin
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler
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Dimensions
plate: 7.8 × 16 cm (3 1/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
mount: 9.3 × 17.2 cm (3 11/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
cut to platemark -
Accession Number
2017.53.12
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bertram 2012, no. 50
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Campbell Fine Art, London); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1925
Lumsden, E.S. "The etchings of John Clerk of Eldin." Print Collector's Quarterly 12 (1925): no. 34
2012
Bertram, Geoffrey. The Etchings of John Clerk of Eldin. Taunton, 2012: no. 50
Inscriptions
on verso of mount in pen and ink: The story of Britain's disgrace / Thought nothing so sure / His pen to secure / As to give the Historien a Place / But art 'tis in vain / 'Tis the curse of his reign / That his projects should never succeed / Though he wrote not a line / Great Britain's decline / In the Author's example we read / His book well describes / How corruption and bribes / O'er threw the great Empire of Rome / and his writing dec... [This is a variation on a poem on Edward Gibbon that seems to have first appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1781.]
Wikidata ID
Q77259204