Conversing with a Captive, 1779

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Banditti Variously Employed

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.2 × 17.4 cm (9 1/8 × 6 7/8 in.)

sheet: 43 × 29.2 cm (16 15/16 × 11 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Sunderland 1986, no. 71.2

Accession Number

2017.53.90

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; lower center in plate: Conversing with a Captive. / London, Publish'd as the Act directs 15th Nov. 1779 by R. Blyth, No. 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square; lower right in plate: Etched by R. Blyth

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

Bibliography

1986: Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works," Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 71.2