Art, literature & history
Musical Monster
1778
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.3 × 17 cm (9 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.) sheet: 42.4 × 28.6 cm (16 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1978.51.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Hamilton Mortimer. Musical Monster. John Hamilton Mortimer; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Hamilton_Mortimer,_Musical_Monster,_1778,_NGA_56681.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Musical Monster — John Hamilton Mortimer. 1778.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.3 × 17 cm (9 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.) sheet: 42.4 × 28.6 cm (16 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1978.51.6. Andrew W. Mellon Fund.
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.