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JOHN HAMILTON MORTIMER
(1741 Eastbourne – 1779 London)
Menelaos, Carrying Patroklos Body from the Battlefield
(An episode of the Trojan War)
Black chalk and oil-colour, 250 x 244 mm; the fragment of an old mount
(datable around 1850) is attached to right corner, inscribed in
brown ink: »by Mortimer«.
The drawing shows a replica of the so-called Pasquino located in the
Palazzo Pitti (Florence)
Provenance: English collection around 1850 |
