John DixonBritish, 1740–1811An Incantation
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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About the work
The Romantic painter John Hamilton Mortimer etched a series of Shakespearean heads in the mode of Thomas Frye’s Life-Sized Heads. However, this encounter between a powerful, aged sorceress and a terrified maiden has no literary source. Mortimer invented it himself, possibly responding to a critic’s assertion that Shakespeare was the only English genius who could successfully depict the preternatural realm. Dixon published another theatrical mezzotint that same year, Mr. Garrick in Richard III.
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- Accession number
- 1920.20
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- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — CC0
