A Captain of Banditti, 1778

Not on View

series Title

Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds

Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.4 × 20.2 cm (11 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

sheet: 45.8 × 30 cm (18 1/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Sunderland 1986, no. 140.11

Accession Number

2017.53.71

Artists / Makers

John Hamilton Mortimer (artist) British, 1740 - 1779

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: A CAPT.N of BANDITTI sending out a party / Publish'd Dec.r 8, 1778, by I. Mortimer; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 8SB 29 IX 102 by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: AN 10215

Provenance

(Campbell Fine Art, London, 2 August 1992); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Campbell Fine Art
Vogler, Donald
Vogler, Thomas

Bibliography

1986: Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works," Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 140.11