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: 54.7 × 38.4 cm (21 9/16 × 15 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.53.99
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Catalogue Raisonné
Sunderland 1986, no. 96.11
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. 96.11
Inscriptions
upper center in plate: SHYLOCK.; lower center in plate: Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1st / If ev'ry ducat in six thousand ducats / were in six parts and ev'ry part a ducat-- / I would not draw them; I would have my Bond / Published 15 March, 1776, by J. MORTIMER Norfolk Street, STRAND
Wikidata ID
Q77259530