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• Author/Creator:Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, artist.
  
• Title:[Five heads] [art original] / H. Mortimer.
  
• Production:[England], [1775?]
  
• Physical Description:1 drawing : pen and black ink ; sheet 18 x 21 cm, mounted to 21 x 25 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Drawings M888 no. 1 Box D135
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:laid paper.
  
• Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
  Date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
  Purchased from Alister Matthews, November 1958.
  Artist's signature in lower right corner: H. Mortimer.
  
• Summary:Pen and ink drawing of five heads in profile. From left to right in two rows: A woman with soft features wearing a scarf; an eccentric middle-aged man with snub nose and mouth agape; an elderly man wearing a cap and holding a long-stemmed tobacco pipe between clenched lips; an elderly man with bushy brow and elongated tubular nose; and an elderly man with sunken chin and disheveled hair.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Cite as:John Hamilton Mortimer, Five Heads. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Heads (Anatomy)
  
• Genre/Form:Ink drawings--Swiss--18th century.
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