In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- John Hamilton Mortimer 1740–1779
- Medium
- Graphite, ink and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 370 x 270 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
- Reference
- T09125
Display caption
As well as the Academy's collection of casts, students could make drawings from sculpture and casts in a private collection in London owned by the Duke of Richmond. This is a study from a cast of a statue of Bacchus by the sixteenth century Italian sculptor and architect,
Jacopo Sansovino.
Gallery label, September 2004
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