A Sacrifice Interrupted
Cleveland Museum of Art

A Sacrifice Interrupted

John Hamilton Mortimer (British, 1740–1779) · 1770s

pen and brown ink
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

John Hamilton Mortimer's close friend James Gandon described Mortimer's technique: "He never altered a line . . . and all the time he [worked] he conversed and entertained his friends with the same easy cheerfulness and pleasantry as if wholly unemployed."

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