About the Artwork
(Untitled)
between 1741 and 1779
John Hamilton Mortimer
1741-1779
English
Unknown
Pen and brown, gray and gray-green ink with gray wash over gray ink sketch on cream laid paper
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 15 inches (23.5 × 38.1 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Dr. Frederick J. Cummings
F1983.236
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, upper center: 9 3/4 X 15 1/2 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mount, upper right: 4/P 92/4
Provenance
June 4, 1970, sold by (Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, Germany) no. 258. (Sabin Galleries, London, England). [as A classical scene on the sea-shore with the women [sic] choosing death rather than abduction] 1976, Dr. Frederick J. Cummings (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Burlington Magazine 114, 837 (1972): lii (as An unidentified scene; advertisement for Sabin Galleries).
Gemalde Zeichnungen und Graphik des 15.-19. Jahrhunderts, Dekorative Graphik. Sales cat., Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, auction 172. Hamburg, 1970, no. 258 (as Mythologische Szene).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 257, no. 123.
Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer, His Life and Works." The Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 202, p. 208 (fig. 339) (as Classical Subjects).
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John Hamilton Mortimer, (Untitled), between 1741 and 1779, pen and brown, gray and gray-green ink with gray wash over gray ink sketch on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Frederick J. Cummings, F1983.236.
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