Cromwell Mortimer. Line engraving by J. Rigaud.
- Date:
- 1744
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- 7054i
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"The engraving shows Cromwell Mortimer seated at a small round table in his chamber or library; on the table are three papers, respectively inscribed " Ph: Tran", "On buggs", and "Arbor vitae". His inkstand is suspended from the beak of an owl. Under his feet are the works of "Boerhave", "Mead", "Friend", "Radclife", "Newton", "Boyle", and "Barrow". On his shelves are works entitled, "On the itch", "Sr I: Newton no philosopher", "D'Anodine", "Culpepper", "Dr Rock", "Salmon", and "Cam". On the walls hang two portraits of "Cromwell" and "Mortimer". Behind him stands Folly, holding a fool's bauble, and placing a peacock's feather in his head."—F.G. Stephens, in British Museum, loc. cit.
Publication/Creation
1744
Physical description
1 print : engraving
Lettering
Here Folly, Ignorance, and Pride, combine / To prove him, of the true Duncean line. Studious he sate, with all his books around, / Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! / Plung'd for his sence, but found no bottom there; / then writ, & flounder'd on, in mere despair. Pope's Dun. Thro' Luna veil'd one, truly d-ll, we see, / Nor fear to tell that Mortimer is he. Pope. Rigou scul.
Creator/production credits
The British Museum online catalogue suggests that the design might be the work of Jane Hogarth
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1877, vol. III, part 1, p. 541, no. 2681
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2075.1
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Wellcome Collection 7054i
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