id:			149357
accession number:	1978.20
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.20
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:42.471000

A Sacrifice Interrupted, 1770s. John Hamilton Mortimer (British, 1740–1779). Pen and brown ink; sheet: 24.5 x 36 cm (9 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.); secondary support: 31.7 x 43.7 cm (12 1/2 x 17 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund and Delia E. Holden Fund 1978.20

title:				A Sacrifice Interrupted
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creation date:			1770s
creation date earliest:		1770
creation date latest:		1779
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creditline:			Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund and Delia E. Holden Fund
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culture:	England, 18th century
technique:	pen and brown ink
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* John Hamilton Mortimer (British, 1740–1779)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 24.5 x 36 cm (9 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 31.7 x 43.7 cm (12 1/2 x 17 3/16 in.)
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	description:	cream(3) laid paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

	title:		18th Century Master Drawings
	opening date:   1981-10-06T04:00:00
	<i>18th Century Master Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).

	title:		The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art
	opening date:   1990-05-01T04:00:00
	<i>The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-July 22, 1990).

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Ramiel M. Howitt, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?-1978
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1978-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1978." <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>66, no. 1 (1979): 3-47.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 44, no. 95
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613

	Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer, His Life and Works." <em>Walpole Society</em> 52 (1988).
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 198-9, no. 163; Reproduced: pl. 283
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	Smiles, Sam. <em>The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination</em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 100-101; Reproduced: pl. 52
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	Smiles, Sam. "J.H. Mortimer and Ancient Britain: An Unrecorded Project and a New Identification." <em>Apollo</em> 142 (November 1995): 42-46.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 45-46; Reproduced: fig. 3
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	DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp.184-185, 294, no. 75; Reproduced; 185
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