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Caliban

John Hamilton MORTIMER
Caliban
 1775; published 1775-1776
from a series of prints of Shakespearean heads, published 1775-76

Medium
etching printed in brown ink

Measurements
40.0 × 32.5 cm (plate) 57.6 × 43.3 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Sunderland 96.6

Inscription
printed in ink above image u.c.: CALIBAN
printed in ink below image l.c.: Do not torment me prithee / I'll bring my wood home faster. / Published May 20 1775 by J. MORTIMER, Nor / olk Street STRAND.
printed in ink below image l.r.: Tempest Actt II, Scene the 2.
inscribed in pencil l.c.: 2929/3
stamped in ink l.c.: NATIONAL GALLERY / OF VICTORIA

Accession Number
2929-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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