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Five heads
Title
[Five heads] [art original] / H. Mortimer.
Production
[England], [1775?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and black ink ; sheet 18 x 21 cm, mounted to 21 x 25 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Provenance
Purchased from Alister Matthews, November 1958.
Summary
Pen and ink drawing of five heads in profile. From left to right in two rows: A woman with soft features wearing a scarf; an eccentric middle-aged man with snub nose and mouth agape; an elderly man wearing a cap and holding a long-stemmed tobacco pipe between clenched lips; an elderly man with bushy brow and elongated tubular nose; and an elderly man with sunken chin and disheveled hair.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
October 13, 2011
References
John Hamilton Mortimer, Five Heads. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
John Hamilton Mortimer, Five Heads. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Ink drawings - Swiss - 18th century.
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