1771
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Banditti Robbing Fishermen is a 1771 ink by Peter Perez Burdett, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a group of rough-looking men attacking a family by a rocky shore. One man holds a weapon, another grabs a woman, and a child clings to a fallen figure. The scene is dark and chaotic, with a big tree looming behind them. The artist used shading to make the figures look dramatic and tense. The rough lines and brown tones give it a gritty, urgent feel. Next, look up etching to see how artists create these detailed prints.
Peter Perez Burdett was an 18th-century cartographer, surveyor, artist, and draughtsman originally from Eastwood in Essex where he inherited a small estate and chose the name Perez from the birth surname of his mother,…
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