| MULLEN COLLECTION.  Each etching 
        measures 46 x 58 cms. The Shakespeare Characters (1775-6) 
        were Mortimer's own etchings after his original drawings. My impressions 
        appear to be original impressions and not reprints. I attach details to 
        help you understand the great (and to my mind unsurpassed) powers of this 
        artist (1740- 1779), active as a portraitist, caricaturist and draftsman 
        of the bizarre and uncanny. There is no other British artist of this period 
        who relishes the intervals, complexities and structures of gussets and 
        seams in clothes - no one else who can make a fold as sinister and redolent 
        of meaning. The contortions of laces and fixings contain entire mythologies. 
        I once owned the Palser reprint of much of Mortimer's work (1816) - the 
        Banditti, Monsters, a terrifying Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - in 
        which there was a discernible diminution of quality of line brought about 
        by the reprinting process. Here Mortimer is at his best.  KENWOOD EXHIBITION
  in the public domain, SHAKESPERIAN HEADS
  in the public domain, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS (1)
  in the public domain, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS (2)
  in the public domain, PAINTINGS
  in the public domain, A LAST TRAWL WITH SOME PORTRAITS
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