Banditti Taking His Post
1778
Artist, British, 1740 - 1779
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: 30 × 20.1 cm (11 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
sheet: 43.3 × 29.3 cm (17 1/16 × 11 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.53.77
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Catalogue Raisonné
Sunderland 1986, no. 140.9
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(William Weston Gallery, London, 3 March 1986); 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. 140.9
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: BANDITTI taking his post / Publish'd Decr. 8, 1778; by later hand, lower left in graphite: (not deciphered) / 2 / 69
Wikidata ID
Q77259488