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John Hamilton Mortimer
Lear 1775-1776
etching
42.0 × 32.5 cm (plate) 56.5 × 42.1 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
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Lear
1775-1776
from a series of prints of Shakespearean heads, published 1775-76
Medium
etching
Measurements
42.0 × 32.5 cm (plate) 56.5 × 42.1 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Nag. no. 2, 3 (vol. XI p. 26)
Printing/Publishing
printed and published by John Mortimer
Inscription
printed in ink above image u.c.: LEAR
printed in ink below image l.l.-l.r.: King Lear Act III, scene 3d. / Here I stand your slave, a poor infirm, weak and despised old man / but yet I call you cervile ministers / that have with two pernicious daughters joind / your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head / so old and white as this, oh! oh! tis foul - / Publish'd March 15, 1778, by J. Mortimer, Norfolk Street, STRAND
Accession Number
2930-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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