Poet
1775
Artist, British, 1740 - 1779
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 × 32.5 cm (15 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
sheet: 43.9 × 34 cm (17 5/16 × 13 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2017.53.70
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Catalogue Raisonné
Sunderland 1986, no. 96.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Campbell Fine Art, London, 2 August 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. 96.1
Inscriptions
upper center in plate: POET.; lower left in plate: Published May 20 1775 by J. MORTIMER, Norfolk Street, STRAND; lower center in plate: The Poets eye in a fine frenzy rowling / Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n, / And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown the Poet's pen / Turns them to shape and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name; lower right in plate: Midsummer Nights dream Act V. Scene I.
Wikidata ID
Q77259472