Bardolph, 1763

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series Title

Twelve Characters from Shakespeare

Medium

etching printed in brown-black ink on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 40 × 32.8 cm (15 3/4 × 12 15/16 in.)

sheet: 55 × 40.8 cm (21 5/8 × 16 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Sunderland 1986, no. 96.5

Accession Number

2017.53.105

Artists / Makers

John Hamilton Mortimer (artist) British, 1740 - 1779

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Inscription

upper center in plate: BARDOLPH.; lower center in plate: My Lord, do you see those meteors? do you behold / these exhalations? / Henry the IV Act the II Scene the 9 / Publishd May 20, 1775 by J. MORTIMER, Norfolk Street STRAND; in Mortimer's hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: No. 170 JM

Provenance

(R. E. Lewis, CA, 15 March 1991); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

R. E. lewis
Vogler, Donald
Vogler, Thomas

Bibliography

1986: Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works," Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 96.5