Nebuchadnezzar with Camels

between 1770 and 1780

English, Artist John Hamilton Mortimer, Artist

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Title Nebuchadnezzar with Camels

Artwork Date between 1770 and 1780

Makers (Artist) English John Hamilton Mortimer (Artist) English, 1741-1779

Medium Pen and black ink over black chalk, squared in black chalk, with traces of gray ink on light gray laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 13 7/8 × 12 13/16 inches (35.2 × 32.5 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Dr. Frederick J. Cummings

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1983.239

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower left: F Cummings Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper left: F Cummings Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower left: P/86-25=57

Provenance

October 21, 1960, sold by (Hodgson & Co., London, England) no. 561. 1960, (P. & D. Colnaghi, London, England). Alister Mathews (Poole, Dorset, England). 1965, Judith Church and Dr. Frederick J. Cummings (Detroit, Michigan, USA) 1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Benthall, Gilbert. "John Mortimer, A.R.A., His Pictures, Drawings, and Engraved Works, with a Revised Account of His Life." Manuscript, Victoria and Albert Museum and Library. London, 1950s, p. 132A (as Nebuchadnezzar and Horses by Mortimer).

Fine English Drawings and Watercolors. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, November 9, 1971, no. 92, (as Nebuchadnezzar in the Wilderness by Mortimer, not included in sale).

Freiberg, Pearlee. The Nature of Morality in the Works of John Hamilton Mortimer. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1975 (pl. 96).

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 340, no. A94.

Nicolson, Benedict. John Hamilton Mortimer ARA, 1740-1779: Paintings, Drawings and Prints Exh. cat., Towner Art Gallery. Eastbourne and London, 1968, no. 36, p. 28 (as Nebuchadnezzar in the Wilderness by Mortimer, ca. 1770-75).

Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer, His Life and Works." The Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. R3, p. 219 (as Nebuchadnezzar probably by a copyist or engraver), R13, pp. 220-221.

Wark, Robert R. William Blake and His Circle. Exh. cat., Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. San Marino, 1965-66, no. 45, pp. 21-22 (ill.) (as Nebuchadnezzar in the Wilderness by Mortimer).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

English; after John Hamilton Mortimer, Nebuchadnezzar with Camels, between 1770 and 1780, pen and black ink over black chalk, squared in black chalk, with traces of gray ink on light gray laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Frederick J. Cummings, F1983.239.