Sleeping Monsters
John Hamilton Mortimer, English, 1740 - 1779
1780
Etching on wove paper
Plate: 6 11/16 × 9 3/16 in. (17 × 23.3 cm)
Image: 5 11/16 × 8 7/16 in. (14.4 × 21.5 cm)
Sheet: 7 5/16 × 9 3/4 in. (18.5 × 24.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
PR.992.29
Publisher
Jane Mortimer, London
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: I. Mortimer Del. et sculp.; bottom center margin: SLEEPING MONSTERS. / Published as the Act directs Jan. 25, 1780 by J. Mortimer, Norfolk Street Strand.
Course History
ENGL 75.2, Climate Fiction, Alysia Garrison, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 9.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 9.
Provenance
Campbell Fine Art, London, England; sold to present collection, 1991.
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