Beatrice, 1776

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series Title

Twelve Characters from Shakespeare

Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 40.5 × 33 cm (15 15/16 × 13 in.)

sheet: 54 × 38.5 cm (21 1/4 × 15 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Sunderland 1986, no. 96.7

Accession Number

2017.53.62

Artists / Makers

John Hamilton Mortimer (artist) British, 1740 - 1779

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in plate: BEATRICE.; lower center in plate: Much ado about nothing Act I, Scene 2d.; Is it possible disdain should die whilst she hath such / meet food to feed it as Senior Benidict. / Published March 15, 1776; by J. MORTIMER, Norfolk Street, STRAND.

Provenance

(Campbell Fine Art, London, 4 May 1992); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Campbell Fine Art
Vogler, Donald
Vogler, Thomas

Exhibition History

2023: Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1986: Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works," Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 96.7