Caliban
1775
Artist, British, 1740 - 1779
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching
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Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler
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Dimensions
plate: 40.6 × 32.9 cm (16 × 12 15/16 in.)
sheet: 55.3 × 38.5 cm (21 3/4 × 15 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.53.67
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Catalogue Raisonné
Sunderland 1986, no. 96.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Campbell Fine Art, London, 2 August 1992); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1986
Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works," Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 96.6
Inscriptions
upper center in plate: CALIBAN.; lower center in plate: Do not torment me prithee / I'll bring my wood home faster. / Tempest Act II Scene the 2. / Publish'd May 20 1775 by J. MORTIMER, Norfolk Street, STRAND
Wikidata ID
Q77259465