Bardolph

1763

John Hamilton Mortimer

Artist, British, 1740 - 1779

John Hamilton Mortimer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching printed in brown-black ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

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

  • Dimensions

    plate: 40 × 32.8 cm (15 3/4 × 12 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 55 × 40.8 cm (21 5/8 × 16 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.53.105

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Sunderland 1986, no. 96.5

  • Series Title

    Twelve Characters from Shakespeare

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(R. E. Lewis, CA, 15 March 1991); 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. 96.5

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: BARDOLPH.; lower center in plate: My Lord, do you see those meteors? do you behold / these exhalations? / Henry the IV Act the II Scene the 9 / Publishd May 20, 1775 by J. MORTIMER, Norfolk Street STRAND; in Mortimer's hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: No. 170 JM

Wikidata ID

Q77259901

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