A Concert of Birds, 1778

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 41.6 × 57.1 cm (16 3/8 × 22 1/2 in.)

sheet: 43.4 × 59.6 cm (17 1/16 × 23 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. undesc

Accession Number

2017.53.101

Artists / Makers

Richard Earlom (artist) British, 1743 - 1822

Mario Nuzzi (artist after) Italian, 1603 - 1673

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Mario di Fiori, pinxit; lower center in plate: Publish'd Dec. 1st 1778, J Boydell Engraver Cheapside London; lower right in plate: R Earlom sculp

Provenance

Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Vogler, Donald
Vogler, Thomas

Bibliography

1884: Smith, John Chaloner. British Mezzotinto Portraits, Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the Early Part of the Present Century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884: undesc.

1886: Wessely, J.E. Wessely, J. E. Richard Earlom: Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter. Hamburg, 1886, no. 139, i/ii