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John Hamilton Mortimer ARA (1740 - 1779)

'Poet' (from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night’s Dream)

c.1775

Etching on paper

Museum number: P292

On display: Morning Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

An etching on paper from Mortimer's Shakespearean Characters series.

Literature

For a detailed account of Mortimer's life and work see John Sunderland, John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740-1779, The Volume of the Walpole Society, 1986 (vol. 52)


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