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Lear Casting out his Daughter Cordelia
Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)LinkedCulture matchlcp-e0d5b6e59a0c
- Date
- 1792
- Medium
- Stipple etching and engraving on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 122067
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
King Lear tells the tragic tale of a king driven to madness. Flattered and manipulated by his disingenuous older daughters into giving them his lands, Lear banishes his youngest daughter, the devoted Cordelia, in the scene depicted here. This print is based upon Henry Fuseli’s painting of the same subject, created for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, which the publisher had reproduced for the wider commercial audience of Shakespeare enthusiasts throughout Britain.
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- Credit line
- William D. Shorey Memorial
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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