Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 11/16 inches (42.9 × 34.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image: "LEAR."; below image, lower left: "King Lear Act III, Scene 3d"; below image, lower center left: "Here I stand your Slave, | a poor, infirm, weak and despisd old man | but yet I call you servile ministers"; below image, lower center right: "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__"; below image and border, center: "Publifh'd March 15 1776: by J. MORTIMER, Norfolk Street, STRAND."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.12116
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)