Art Institute of Chicago

Lear Casting out his Daughter Cordelia

Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)

Date

1792

Medium

Stipple etching and engraving on ivory laid paper

Culture

England

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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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