Silenus, 1779

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.7 × 20.9 cm (9 5/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

sheet: 42.8 × 28.4 cm (16 7/8 × 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Sunderland 1986, no. 72

Accession Number

2017.53.85

Artists / Makers

Robert Blyth (artist) British, 1750 - 1784

John Hamilton Mortimer (artist after) British, 1740 - 1779

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Drawn by J. H. Mortimer / Publish'd as the Act directs July 19th, 1779 by R. Blyth; lower center in plate: Silenus; lower right in plate: Etch'd by R. Blyth

Provenance

(Campbell Fine Art, London, 5 April 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. 72