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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Mortimer, John Hamilton Creator Nationality: British Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1740 - 1779 Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Eastbourne Creator Death Place: London Creator Name-CRT: John Hamilton Mortimer Title: Richard II Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1775 Creation End Date: 1775 Creation Date: 1775 Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Print Materials and Techniques: etching in brown ink Dimensions: Sheet: 57.3cm x 40.8cm, Image: 34.1cm x 28cm, Platemark: 39.9cm x 32.4cm Inscriptions: inscribed lower right in pen and brown ink: N:161: J:M; numbered upper right corner in brown ink: 6 AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 2002.58 Credit Line: Gift of various donors to the department of Prints (by exchange) Rights: http://www.clevelandart.org/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: Charles Ryskamp Style or Period: England, 18th century Context: John Hamilton Mortimer supported the prevailing academic doctrine which located history painting at the top of the hierarchy of subject matter. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, he turned to the great subjects of English literature for themes. From 1775 to 1776, Mortimer produced etchings of twelve Shakespearean characters, including King Lear, Ophelia, and Caliban. In this dramatic composition, the skeletal figure of death looms over the tense King Richard II. This rare signed proof is a marvelous example of Mortimer's Romantic sensibility.By the time he was twenty-three years old, Mortimer had won numerous prizes for his drawings and paintings and was considered one of the rising stars of English art. In 1774, he became president of the Society of Artists of Great Britain, to whose annual exhibitions he was a regular contributor. The artist's promising career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of thirty-nine. AMICA ID: CMA_.2002.58 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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