Two Soldiers and Child Holding a Helmet

1779

Robert Blyth, after John Hamilton Mortimer

Associated Names
Robert Blyth

Artist, British, 1750 - 1784

John Hamilton Mortimer

Artist After, British, 1740 - 1779

The image shows three figures - two adults and a child. The central figure is a seated woman leaning against a large, cracked stone structure. She wears layered garments and her hair is wrapped in a cloth. Beside her is a man in armor with a helmet, holding a spear or staff. A child is seated on the ground playing with a jug. The background displays large fluffy clouds, vegetation on the stone structure, and a natural landscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

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

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.2 × 17.1 cm (9 1/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 43.8 × 29.4 cm (17 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.53.92

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Sunderland 1988, no. 229

  • Series Title

    Banditti and Soldiers

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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. 229

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Drawn by Mortimer; lower center in plate: London, Publish'd as the Act directs 19th July 1779 by R. Blyth; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Box 38 T

Wikidata ID

Q77259514

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