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John Hamilton Mortimer ARA (1740 - 1779)
Shylock
Etching on paper
Museum number: P217
On display: Staircase - first to second floor (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Provenance
1832 Description p.23 describing works hanging on the main staircase: The five Characters from Shakespeare [P215-P219: Soane erroneously includes the self-portrait P218 amongst the Shakespearean characters] by the late John Mortimer, are beautiful specimens of the taste and discrimination of that great Artist. Mr. Mortimer gave these impressions to his friend Mr Levick; at whose death they became the property of his niece, from whom I received them. Note: a further group of Mortimer's etchings of Shakespearean heads hangs in the Morning Room but these are differently framed and their provenance is not given.
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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