deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Dressing table
Object type: dressing table
Date: 1775 – 1775
Materials: wood
Artist: david roentgen
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1743 – 1807
Portret van Lodewijk Bolk
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1920 – 1940
Materials: paper
Techniques: rotogravure
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: overschie, amsterdam, historical persons, professor
Twee zeemeerminnen
Object type: print
Date: 1887 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: merman - aa - mermaid, siren
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De prent is gebruikt in: Crane, Walter. The claims of decorative art. Londen: Lawrence & Bullen, 1892.
Portret van een man in een korte overjas, mogelijk een werknemer van distilleerderij Delizy & Doisteau in Pantin
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1910
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: pantin
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult man, coat, cape

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum van een Franse amateurfotograaf met opnames van een familie, distilleerderij Delizy & Doistau Fils, het leger en bezienswaardigheden in Frankrijk.
Verbranden van het lijk van een Brahmaan waarbij de weduwe zich in de vlammen stort
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1689 – 1689
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: widow, body-burning, cremation
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Thevenot, Jean de. Voyages Tant en Europe qu'en Asie et en Afrique, 4 delen. Parijs: Charles Angot, 1689, dl. IV.
Trio, Part Three
Object type: print
Date: 1786 – 1868
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: surimono, woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: yashima gakutei
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1786 – 1868
Subjects: musical instruments,women,music
Portret van Gottlieb Christoph Harless
Object type: print
Date: 1794 – 1794
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: nuremberg
Artist: christoph wilhelm bock
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1755 – 1836
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Op verso een fragment van het portret dat Christoph Wilhelm Bock in 1794 maakte van Christian Gottfried Junge.
Plate
Object type: plate
Date: 1820 – 1850
Materials: earthenware
Culture: american
Location: united states
Subjects: swords,men,horses
Meisho Edo hyakkei
Object type: print
Date: 1802 – 1857
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Subjects: rowing-boat, canoe, etc., sea (seascape)
Inscriptions: date
Iron fire-dog
Object type: fire dog
Date: 550 – 550
Materials: iron
Culture: etruscan

Each consists of rod of square section inserted at each end in a stand of double horseshoe shape.
Gezicht op het Nieuwe Werkhuis
Object type: drawing
Date: 1791 – 1791
Materials: paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jurriaan andriessen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1742 – 1819
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', specialized institutions, canal, bridge in city across river, canal, etc.
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘23’ Lugt 1641b, name: ‘Jurriaan Andriessen’, inscription: ‘Port. 23-448’, inscription: ‘gezicht op het nieuwe werkhuis / van de voorkant te zien / 1791’

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Handvesten, Keuren, enz.; Rechtswezen (incl. gevangenissen, enz.).
Fotoreproductie van Laetitia Bonaparte op haar doodsbed door Antoine Wiertz
Object type: page
Date: 1863 – 1868
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: edmond fierlants
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1819 – 1869
Subjects: deathbed
Inscriptions: check stamp: ‘SOCIÉTÉ ROYALE BELGE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE/ 69, RUE KEYENVELD/ BRUXELLES’
Portret van Johannes Swijzen, aartsbisschop van Utrecht
Object type: print
Date: 1869 – 1869
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: tilburg, aartsbisschop, johannes zwijsen
Inscriptions: name: ‘J. Zwijsen/ aartsbisschop bisschop [...]’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Gallerie Moderner Meister
Object type: photograph
Date: 1881 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: munich
Inscriptions: caption: ‘Photographie nach dem Originale.//GALLERIE MODERNER MEISTER//F. DÜRCK//JUNGER CAMPAGNOLE//1468//1881//Verlag von Fr. Hanfstaengl in München//New York, Geo. Kirchner & Co.//Registered//Déposé’
Blue Bunting, from the Birds of America series (N37) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: birds,flowers

Trade cards from the "Birds of America" series (N37), issued in 1888 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Series N37 reproduces the cards from N4 in a larger size.
Scarborough, England, from the Surf Beauties series (N232), issued by Kinney Bros.
Object type: print
Date: 1889 – 1889
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: profiles,women

Trade cards from the "Surf Beauties" series (N232), issued in 1889 to promote Kinney Tobacco Company.
The Parable of the Father and His Two Sons in the Vineyard, from The Story of Christ
Object type: print
Date: 1534 – 1535
Techniques: engraving
Artist: georg pencz
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1500 – 1550
Subjects: boys,fathers,working
Cover of a tureen with blue and ornamental borders
Object type: lid
Date: 1800 – 1800
Materials: glaze, gold, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, forming, gilding, turning, vitrification
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous

Deksel van een terrine van porselein, beschilderd op het glazuur in blauw en goud. De deksel is bedekt met blauw, met uitgespaard op de rand een band met een bloemrank.
Vier putti op een wip
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1696 – 1696
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: hendrick van beaumont
Artist role: draughtsman
Subjects: bascule bridge, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
Inscriptions: number: ‘4’

Blad 2 recto uit een schetsboek met 30 bladen.
Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)
Object type: blade and mounting for a short sword wakizashi
Materials: gold alloy, silver alloy, lacquer, silver, steel, thread, wood
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Rolandseck
Object type: print
Date: 1827 – 1871
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: bonn
Subjects: landscapes in the temperate zone
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Kaartje van de Zeeuwse eilanden
Object type: history print
Date: 1713 – 1717
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: maps of separate countries or regions, zeeland

Illustratie voor: Mattheus Gargon, Walchersche arkadia, Samuel (I) Luchtmans, Leiden 1715-1717, pag. 295.
Gezicht op het Vondelmonument in Amsterdam
Object type: print
Date: 1878 – 1878
Materials: paper
Techniques: wood engraving
Subjects: cologne, joost van den vondel, park, monument, statue
A.C.M. Geertsema tussen haar twee jonge kinderen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1920
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Man's Coat (Choga)
Object type: coat
Date: 1803 – 1856
Materials: metal thread, wool
Techniques: interlocking, weave
Location: india

A meandering vine encloses multicolor ambi, or mangoshaped, motifs on this choga, a loose-fitting, open-fronted robe worn as an outer garment in Central Asia, Russia, North Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. This coat was likely made in Kashmir, as the double-interlocking twill tapestry weave (kanni) used to make it was a specialty of the region. Later, the coat made its way into the wardrobe of Saiyid Sa'id, sultan of Zanzibar and imam of Muscat, Oman (1803–56).
Leerd dit o jonge jeugd / Maar wilt u niet vergaapen / Al wat men op 's waerelds schouwburg spreid / Is 't regte spel der aapen
Object type: popular print
Date: 1765 – 1767
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour, letterpress printing
Location: netherlands
Subjects: monkeys, apes, 'mundus inversus', the reversed world, the topsy-turvy world, 'le monde bestourné'
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 4 taferelen met apen die zich gedragen als mensen. Onder elke afbeelding een vers. Genummerd rechtsboven: 150.
View of Willem III’s Quarter near Bodegraven
Object type: drawing
Date: 1672 – 1672
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Subjects: the hague, william iii (prince of orange and king of england, scotland, and ireland), river, river bank, bodegraven, rampjaar (disaster year)

Gezicht op het kwartier van prins Willem en zijn troepen te Bodegraven aan de rivier de Oude Rijn op 2 september 1672. De tekening toont verschillende vaartuigen die aan de rivieroever liggen afgemeerd. Daarachter enige tenten van het kampement van prins Willem.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: eye-cup  (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment, eye cup
Date: 525 – 510
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, lower part of eye with tear duct and oculus consisting of black and white bands
Nesiamun's Book of the Dead
Object type: papyrus, funerary, book of the dead
Date: 1070 – 945
Materials: ink, papyrus
Location: upper egypt, thebes

Said to have been discovered in a tomb on the west bank at Thebes, this funerary papyrus would have been an important element of the burial equipment of the owner, the priest Nesiamun. The deceased is shown in the vignette on the right, offering incense to a figure of the god Osiris, who is seated before table piled high with offerings of food and drink. The text on the papyrus, written in black ink with titles highlighted in red, includes several spells from the Book of the Dead (Chapters 23 to 28 and 162) that were meant to enable Nesiamun to speak, to know magic formulas, to maintain control over his memory and his heart (the center of emotions and thought), and to provide his head with warmth.
Rod of Opaque Green Glass
Object type: glass rod, green
Date: 1390 – 1352
Materials: glass
Location: egypt
Schyn bedriegt
Object type: print
Date: 1687 – 1687
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: conversation, dialogue; conversation piece, fisherman
Inscriptions: number: ‘27’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Luyken, Jan. Voncken der liefde Jesu, van het godtbegerende zielenvier. Amsterdam: Pieter Arentsz (II), 1687, p. 110.
The Musicians
Object type: print
Date: 1524 – 1524
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: lucas van leyden
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1494 – 1533
De rattenvanger met zijn knecht
Object type: print
Date: 1826 – 1886
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: rat exterminator
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een rattenvanger met zijn hond en knecht. De jongen houdt een staf met een rattenkooi vast. De rattenvanger draagt een tas en gereedschap met zich mee, op zijn mantel loopt een rat. Op een kist die hij op zijn heup draagt staan de wapens van Leiden en Amsterdam.
Piece (three joined pieces)
Object type: piece
Date: 1801 – 1850
Materials: metal thread
Artist: nytra
Artist role: manufactory
Subjects: flowers
Virgin adoring the Christ Child
Object type: plaque
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: ivory
Artist: lelio orsi (called lelio da novellara)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1508 – 1587
Subjects: madonna and child

This is a devotional image which was very popular in Reggio Emilia. A painting of the composition and the drawing by Lelio Orsi (1569) upon which the painting is based are in the Chapel of the Madonna della Ghiara, Reggio Emilia.
Fragment of a Cornice with a Frieze of Masks
Object type: fragment of a cornice
Date: 1401 – 1533
Materials: stone
Location: india
Subjects: masks

Friezes containing a series of masks or mythical beasts are seen on palaces and temples all over northern and western India, from the eleventh century onward. The red sandstone of this example connects it to the tradition of stone carving in the Mathura region.
Allá vá eso
Object type: print
Date: 1797 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, drypoint, etching
Location: spain
Artist: francisco de goya
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1746 – 1828
Subjects: witch, sorceress, flying, human-shaped devil
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een heks en een duivel in de lucht, hangend aan een stok en een slang. Op de staart van de slang staat een kat. Zesenzestigste prent uit de serie Los Caprichos.
Gezicht van Scheveninge / Vuë & perspective de Scheveningue
Object type: print
Date: 1755 – 1762
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: the hague
Subjects: church (exterior), coast, village street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Gezicht op de Oude Kerk te Scheveningen, met op de achtergrond de Noordzee. Onder de voorstelling de titel en opdracht in het Nederlands en Frans, met in het midden het familiewapen van Jacob Jan van Wassenaer Obdam. Prent uit een serie van achttien gezichten in en om Den Haag. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Kerk en kerkwezen & Armwezen en liefdadige instellingen; Kerkgebouwen elders. M-U.
American Light Brahma, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1891 – 1891
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: chickens

Trade cards from the "Prize and Game Chickens" series (N20), issued in 1891 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes.
Portret van Elisabeth van Frankrijk
Object type: print
Date: 1837 – 1840
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman
Plattegrond van Bouchain, 1711
Object type: map
Date: 1711 – 1711
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: brussels
Subjects: maps of cities

Plattegrond van Bouchain, belegerd in 1711 door de Geallieerden. Onderdeel van een gebundelde verzameling van plannen van veldslagen en steden vermaard in de Spaanse Successieoorlog.
Travelling sappers, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Object type: print
Date: 1853 – 1853
Materials: chine, paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: denis auguste marie raffet
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1804 – 1860
Pair of miniature tapersticks
Object type: taperstick
Date: 1700 – 1700
Materials: silver
Artist: a
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1650 – 1750
Christus voor Herodes
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1649 – 1649
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: antwerp
Subjects: christ before king herod; sometimes a gorgeous robe is brought (luke 23:8-11)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 698, collector's mark: Lugt 240

Koning Herodes ondervraagt Christus, maar die antwoordt hem niet. Hierop bespotten Herodes en zijn soldaten Christus.
Raderboot
Object type: print
Date: 1883 – 1942
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Subjects: flag, colours (as symbol of the state, etc.), paddle-wheel boat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Raderboot met vlaggen achter een raster. Bovenaan zijn de vlakken van het raster gevuld met vlaggen van verschillende landen. Rechts Japanse karakters.
And Can You Think (valentine)
Object type: print
Date: 1850 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: cutting, embossing, hand coloring, lithograph
Location: england
Artist: george kershaw
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
Gold pendant disk
Object type: pendant disc with lotus flower
Date: 700 – 501
Materials: gold
Culture: cypriot

With flowers and buds in filigree work.
Fotoreproductie van een tekening, voorstellende skeletten rond een slang in (vermoedelijk) een kerk
Object type: photograph
Date: 1871 – 1876
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: snakes, interior of church, (human) skeleton
Fotoreproductie van een schilderij door Juan de Juanes, voorstellend het Laatste Avondmaal
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1875
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: last supper (in general) (matthew 26:21-35; mark 14:18-31; luke 22:3, 22:15-23; john 13:21-38)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘cuadros del Rl. Museo M[...]’

Onderdeel van Reisalbum met opnames van kunstwerken, personen en bezienswaardigheden in Spanje.
Collignei fratres
Object type: print
Date: 1579 – 1579
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, intaglio
Location: france
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘[...]’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Mitts
Object type: mitt
Date: 1850 – 1860
Materials: silk
Culture: italian
Vork van zilver
Object type: fork
Date: 1764 – 1764
Materials: silver
Location: utrecht
Artist: dirk van gameren
Inscriptions: mark

Vork van zilver, met 4 tanden. De vork gaat geleidelijk over in de platte steel die zich verbreedt naar het afgeronde uiteinde.
Portret van arts Guillaume Dupuytren
Object type: print
Date: 1825 – 1842
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Triumphal Arch
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1600 – 1699
Materials: graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Location: italy
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1600 – 1699
Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a snake's head
Object type: horse bit cheekpiece
Date: 700 – 601
Materials: bone
Culture: scythian
Location: iran
Fotoreproductie van een schilderij, voorstellende een zelfportret van Michelangelo
Object type: photograph
Date: 1878 – 1888
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: rome, painter, draughtsman, sculptor, michelangelo, portrait, self-portrait of painter
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1912 – 1912
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: brussels
Artist: jeanne boels de buck
Subjects: painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken, brussels
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Respect ou sesque et à la vieillesse, canailles!
Object type: print
Date: 1822 – 1822
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: adult woman, boy (child between toddler and youth), working class, labourers, mocking, insulting; teasing
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘v. Stockum, 24 Nov. 1964/ No. 172 (81 st.) f. 520.-’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, stamp: ‘L.A. de Vries’
Vessel
Object type: vessel
Date: 2700 – 2400
Materials: ceramic
Culture: yortan
Location: northwestern anatolia
Ceramic Fragment
Object type: fragment
Date: 801 – 1000
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Techniques: luster painting
Location: iran

This object was excavated at Nishapur. Nishapur was a vital city in the early and middle Islamic periods, located along one of the main trajectories that connected Iran and West Asia Islamic lands with Central Asia and China. These itineraries are often referred to by the term ‘Silk routes’ but were in fact crucial to the movement of constellations of materials and objects, as well as people and ideas. The diverse population of Nishapur and its surroundings, from the better-researched elite groups of merchants, land-owning aristocracy, and literates, to the less-known artisans, farmers, miners, and servants, were instrumental in adapting global cultural trends to create their own distinctive visual languages. This is seen in the material remains of everyday life in medieval Nishapur – from pots and pans to lighting devices, inkwells, textiles and trimmings, jewelry, games and toys, talismanic devices, weapons, coins, and architectural fragments. Nishapur lost its political prominence due to a series of earthquakes and invasions that peaked in the thirteenth century. Today, the medieval city is a vast archaeological area, while the relatively small modern city is situated to its north. Instead Mashhad, a major pilgrimage site, emerged as a major prosperous metropolis in the region. Between 1935 and 1948, the "Persian Expedition" of the Metropolitan Museum of Art excavated at several sites at Nishapur under an agreement with the Iranian authorities. American archaeologists and hundreds of Iranian workers excavated archaeological areas named Tepe Madrasa, Village Tepe, Sabz Pushan, Qanat Tepe, Tepe Alp Arslan, Vineyard Tepe, among others. They uncovered vast neighborhoods with mostly residential buildings, but also mosques, bathhouses, and possibly a governmental palace. Two main chronological phases were recognized in the sites: the first covers the ninth-tenth centuries and the second covers the eleventh-twelfth centuries. Thousands of artifacts were also recovered, mostly ceramic, glass, metal, and stone vessels, as well as carved and painted stuccoes and wall paintings, which were divided in half between the two countries, resulting in over four thousand objects in the Met’s collection today.
Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: postcard
Date: 1901 – 1901
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: geo poggenbeek
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1853 – 1903
Subjects: the hague, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Plate
Object type: plate
Date: 1835 – 1845
Materials: glass
Descartes
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Artist: jean-baptiste de grateloup
Artist role: painter, print maker, sculptor
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1735 – 1817
De Donderslag voor Wolfenbuttel; of Het Treffende Weerligt: een donderend veersje
Object type: text sheet
Date: 1784 – 1784
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ludwig ernst von braunschweig-wolfenbüttel, patriots (1780-1795)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tekstblad met een spotvers op Lodewijk Ernst, hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel, 1784.
Hercules
Object type: print
Date: 1646 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Artist: hubert quellinus
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1619 – 1687
Subjects: (story of) hercules (heracles), piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture
Inscriptions: number: ‘49’, inscription: ‘Vide lib. No. 4de fol. 10 ...’

Klassieke buste van Hercules. Over zijn schouder hangt de huid van een leeuw. De prent maakt deel uit van een album met een serie prenten naar de sculpturen in de verzameling van Gerard Reynst.
Cup with cover and stand (one of a pair)
Object type: cup with cover and stand
Date: 1766 – 1767
Materials: silver gilt
Artist: john parker
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1759 – 1777
Subjects: women

This pair of cup was made for the Curzon family, important patrons of the architect Robert Adam. The bold profile, rich beading, and unusual square base represent an early foray into the neoclassical style. Although the design is not attributed, some motifs are apparently borrowed from the published designs of William Kent, an architect active a generation earlier.
An Incantation
Object type: print
Date: 1772 – 1772
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, mezzotint, printing
Location: england
Artist: john dixon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: irish
Artist dates: 1740 – 1811

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.