Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on wove 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: 40.5 × 33 cm (15 15/16 × 13 in.)
sheet: 54 × 38.5 cm (21 1/4 × 15 3/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.53.62
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Catalogue Raisonné
Sunderland 1986, no. 96.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Campbell Fine Art, London, 4 May 1992); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2023
Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Bibliography
1986
Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works," Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 96.7
Inscriptions
upper center in plate: BEATRICE.; lower center in plate: Much ado about nothing Act I, Scene 2d.; Is it possible disdain should die whilst she hath such / meet food to feed it as Senior Benidict. / Published March 15, 1776; by J. MORTIMER, Norfolk Street, STRAND.
Wikidata ID
Q77259453