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Classical Subject (Lucretia's Dead Body is Carried by her Husband, Lead by her Mourning Father)

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Classical Subject (Lucretia's Dead Body is Carried by her Husband, Lead by her Mourning Father)

John Hamilton Mortimer

1770–79 (?)

Medium

Pen and ink over traces of graphite or chalk

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 5/8 in. (25 × 34.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About John Hamilton Mortimer

1740–1779 • England

Comment on works: History; Portraits; Genre

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