A Concert of Birds
1778
Artist, British, 1743 - 1822
Artwork overview
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Medium
mezzotint 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: 41.6 × 57.1 cm (16 3/8 × 22 1/2 in.)
sheet: 43.4 × 59.6 cm (17 1/16 × 23 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.53.101
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Catalogue Raisonné
Smith 1884, no. undesc
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1884
Smith, John Chaloner. British Mezzotinto Portraits, Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the Early Part of the Present Century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884: undesc.
1886
Wessely, J.E. _Wessely, J. E. Richard Earlom: Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter. Hamburg, 1886, no. 139, i/ii
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Mario di Fiori, pinxit; lower center in plate: Publish'd Dec. 1st 1778, J Boydell Engraver Cheapside London; lower right in plate: R Earlom sculp
Wikidata ID
Q19858592