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Peter Perez Burdett, after John Hamilton Mortimer

Banditti Robbing Fishermen, 1771

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Medium

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 36 × 45.7 cm (14 3/16 × 18 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2018.91.4

Artists / Makers

Peter Perez Burdett (artist) British, c.1735-1793

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

Image Use

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Inscription

In plate, below image, at left: ortimer del.; in plate, below image, at right: P P Burdett sculp

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 87, fig. 1.

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