Banditti Robbing Fishermen

1771

Peter Perez Burdett

Artist, British, c.1735-1793

John Hamilton Mortimer

Artist After, British, 1740 - 1779

Peter Perez Burdett, after John Hamilton Mortimer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    2018.91.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Watermarks

Crowned cartouche with three small letters; countermark a single line of letters

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