Going Out in the Morning

1779

Robert Blyth, after John Hamilton Mortimer

Associated Names
Robert Blyth

Artist, British, 1750 - 1784

John Hamilton Mortimer

Artist After, British, 1740 - 1779

The image shows two individuals standing side by side. The person on the left is positioned with their arm raised, pointing forward, while supporting a large spear with their right hand. They have a helmet covering their head, long hair, and wear a robe and sandals. The person on the right stands closely, leaning toward the first person with their arm around the other's shoulder, holding a flagpole. They have a beard, curly hair, and wear a shirt, trousers, and a bag slung over one shoulder, barefoot. The background displays a landscape with shrubbery, trees, and distant figures wielding spears, against a cloudy sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.7 × 17.7 cm (9 5/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 43 × 29.4 cm (16 15/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.53.86

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Sunderland 1986, no. 71.1

  • Series Title

    Banditti Variously Employed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Campbell Fine Art, London, 4 May 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. 71.1

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: Six Prints representing Banditti variously employed; lower left in plate: Drawn by J. H. Mortimer; lower center in plate: Going out in the Morning / London Publish'd as the Act directs 15th Nov 1779 by R. Blyth, No. 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square; lower right in plate: Etched by R Blyth; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Box 38

Wikidata ID

Q77259500

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