About the Artwork
A Monk
between 1770 and 1775
John Hamilton Mortimer
1741-1779
English
Unknown
Pen and black ink on mottled laid paper
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 4 7/8 inches (14.6 × 12.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Dr. Frederick J. Cummings
F1983.242
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower left: 63-3=210 J. Mortimer 1741-1779 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower right: 61 [in broken circle] = 302 P' Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper right: D5r. 300 329 [?] 300 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower right: P' | B7 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on mat, verso: Mortimer- | Melancholy Monk
Watermark: crown
Provenance
by 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Leornard Baskin (Northampton, Massachusetts, USA). 1973, Dr. Frederick J. Cummings (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 256, no. 122.
Nicolson, Benedict. John Hamilton Mortimer ARA, 1740-1779: Paintings, Drawings and Prints Exh. cat., Towner Art Gallery. Eastbourne and London, 1968, no. 12, p. 18 (as Head of a Young Man).
Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer, His Life and Works." The Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 257, p. 215 (fig. 393) (as Head of a Monk).
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John Hamilton Mortimer, A Monk, between 1770 and 1775, pen and black ink on mottled laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Frederick J. Cummings, F1983.242.
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