Successful Monster by John Hamilton Mortimer (1778)

Etching of a bearded muscular man wrestling a serpent beside a draped woman raising a cloth, with clouds and reeds behind the

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Successful Monster (no.7 from Fifteen Etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds), John Hamilton Mortimer (1778), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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An etching titled Successful Monster, the seventh of fifteen etchings by John Hamilton Mortimer, dated 1778. A muscular bearded man in a lion's skin grips a massive serpent at his feet while a draped female figure raises a cloth above him, set against clouds, reeds and a shoreline strewn with shells.

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1778

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