Designs for Decorative Vases

1760s/1770s

John Hamilton Mortimer

Associated Names
John Hamilton Mortimer

Artist, British, 1740 - 1779

The image features a decorative urn with a lid in the center and a sketch of a person to the right of the urn. The urn is ornately decorated with intricate patterns. The color scheme is monochromatic with shades of gray on an off-white background. On the left of the urn, there are faint, unfinished sketches of smaller elements.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 10 x 15.9 cm (3 15/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.52.123

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Sunderland 1986, no. 245

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

George Hilder Libbis. Nell Hilder Libbis; (her sale, Sotheby’s London, 13 March 1969, no. 70.2). (Sabin Galleries, Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1975-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1986

  • Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works," Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 245, fig. 381.

Inscriptions

on mount, lower left in graphite: Mortimer

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64582774

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