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Self-Portrait of John Hamilton Mortimer "in Character"

1840s?

Waterman Lily Ormsby

Artist, American, 1809 - 1883

John Hamilton Mortimer

Artist After, British, 1740 - 1779

Waterman Lily Ormsby, after John Hamilton Mortimer

Attributed to

Medium

etching on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler
Dimensions

sheet: 6.5 × 12.4 cm (2 9/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
mount: 29.8 × 21.6 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

2017.53.81

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: W.L. Ormsby Sc.; by later hand, lower center in graphite: Mortimer

Wikidata ID

Q77259492