The Reviewers' Cave

1765

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and gray ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 7/16 × 14 1/4 in. (29 × 36.2 cm) Mount: 15 1/4 × 19 5/8 in. (38.7 × 49.8 cm)
Collection no.: 2018.49
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

John Hamilton Mortimer. The Reviewers' Cave. John Hamilton Mortimer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2018. 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

The Reviewers' Cave — John Hamilton Mortimer. 1765.

Medium: Pen and gray ink. Dimensions: Sheet: 11 7/16 × 14 1/4 in. (29 × 36.2 cm) Mount: 15 1/4 × 19 5/8 in. (38.7 × 49.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2018.

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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