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Head of man in cap

Maker

(artist)
1740-1779

Title

Head of man in cap

Date of Production

(circa?) 1775

Medium

black chalk, pen and dark brown ink on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount; two red ink lines, one dotted, run horizontally across the upper edge of the sheet underneath the brown ink drawing

Dimensions

Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.858

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

John Hamilton Mortimer A.R.A. 1740-1779, London & England, 10/09/1968-03/10/1968

John Hamilton Mortimer A.R.A. 1740-1779, Eastbourne & England, 06/07/1968-03/09/1968

Literature

Sunderland, John, John Hamilton Mortimer: his life and works, Walpole Society, 1986 (LII), 96.10
no. 249

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 35

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none in the drawing sheet. Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre: "J WHATMAN".

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: upper right corner, graphite: "77"; lower left edge, graphite: "J. H. Mortimer". Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: "1/".

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Detached from old mount, now kept separately from file, handwritten in pencil: "Mortimer / D 118.13".

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