Art, literature & history
Shylock
1776
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 40.5 × 33 cm (15 15/16 × 13 in.) sheet: 54.7 × 38.4 cm (21 9/16 × 15 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2017.53.99
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Hamilton Mortimer. Shylock. John Hamilton Mortimer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Shylock — John Hamilton Mortimer. 1776.
Medium: etching on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 40.5 × 33 cm (15 15/16 × 13 in.) sheet: 54.7 × 38.4 cm (21 9/16 × 15 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2017.53.99. Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.