MORTIMER,JOHN HAMILTON. Sunderland,John. — John Hamilton Mortimer. His life and works.

Oxford, Walpole Society, 1988. XXV,207 pp. [416 b./w. ills on [104] plts. Orig. publisher's hardcover binding (full cloth, gilt lettering on spiine). 4to. - Lettering on spine sl. faded; very light shelfwear. - Overall a very good copy. (The fifty-second volume of the Walpole Society 1986). John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1779) was a British figure and landscape painter and printmaker, known for romantic paintings set in Italy, works depicting conversations, and works drawn in the 1770s portraying war scenes, similar to those of Salvator Rosa. - Rare monograph. This work was only available for subsribers.