Classical Subject: Possibly the Aftermath of a Battle

1760–79

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black and brown ink, traces of black chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (23.5 x 37.5 cm)
Collection no.: 2013.95
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

John Hamilton Mortimer. Classical Subject: Possibly the Aftermath of a Battle. John Hamilton Mortimer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Classical Subject: Possibly the Aftermath of a Battle — John Hamilton Mortimer. 1760–79.

Medium: Pen and black and brown ink, traces of black chalk. Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (23.5 x 37.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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