Fishermen
Robert Blyth
1880
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 36.9 × 42 cm (14 9/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
213935
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
One of many prints executed by Mortimer's apprentice, Robert Blyth, this drawing reflects Mortimer’s interest in picturesque scenes of bandits, pirates, and smugglers. Blyth’s etching faithfully includes the vague or unfinished elements in the periphery of the drawing, including the house at the right margin and the seemingly allegorical female figure on the left. As a natural outcome of translating a drawn invention onto a printing matrix, the etching reverses the direction of Mortimer’s drawin...