Sleeping Monsters

1780

John Hamilton Mortimer

Artist, British, 1740 - 1779

John Hamilton Mortimer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on pale blue-green paper

  • Credit Line

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

  • Dimensions

    plate: 16.9 × 23.5 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 22.2 × 29.5 cm (8 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.53.74

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Sunderland 1986, no. 184a

  • Series Title

    Twelve Etchings


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William Weston Gallery, London, 28 February 1985); 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. 184a.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: SLEEPING MONSTERS. / Published as the Act directs Jan. 25, 1780 by J. Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand; lower right in plate: I. Mortimer Del et Sculp.

Wikidata ID

Q77259483


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