Earth, Air, Fire and Water. [graphic] / [1740-1779].

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Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779. Earth, Air, Fire and Water. [graphic] /

Earth, Air, Fire and Water. [graphic] / [1740-1779].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500693750

Four putti: wearing a grey toga and crown, holding a staff, seated on a lion, and pointing to a basket of fruit; wearing a white dress floating in the sky holding a peacock and painting a rainbow; wearing a red toga floating in the sky holding lightning bolts; wearing a blue toga, leaning on an overflowing urn and drinking from a stream trickling over rocks. Outline drawings of the figures on versos of Fire and Air. Not mentioned in John Sunderland, 'John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works', Walpole Society, vol. 52, 1986. Possibly connected to the decoration of the ceiling at Brocket Hall in 1773?

4 art originals ; ink and watercolour on paper, four sheets inlaid as a grid ; 72 x 61, 71 x 60, 76 x 60, and 76 x 60 mm.

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