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The image depicts an illustration of a person from the chest up, seen in profile facing to the right. The individual appears to be holding a tankard or a similar object in their right hand. Their notable features include a prominent nose, forehead, eyebrows, deep-set eyes, curly or wavy hair, and a fabric turban or headwrap. The person is wearing a robe with broad lapels and detailed stitching. The background is a simple oval shape with the name "BARDOLPH" above the figure and a quote below.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Bardolph
John Hamilton Mortimer
- Date
- 1763
- 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.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2017.53.105
- Credit line
- Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler
- Time span
- 1751 to 1775
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Twelve Characters from Shakespeare
Subjects and terms
- etching
- Shakespeare
- literature
Provenance
(R. E. Lewis, CA, 15 March 1991); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.
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
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