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John Hamilton Mortimer

A Sacrifice Interrupted

1770s
pen and brown ink

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

John Hamilton Mortimer's close friend James Gandon described Mortimer's technique: "He never altered a line . . . and all the time he [worked] he conversed and entertained his friends with the same easy cheerfulness and pleasantry as if wholly unemployed."

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