Art Institute of Chicago
An Incantation
John Dixon (English, born Ireland, 1720/30-1804)LinkedCulture matchlcp-bde6edb63375
- Date
- 1772
- Medium
- Mezzotint with touches of engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 133282
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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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- Credit line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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