Oriental Head
Charles Heath, the elder|John Hamilton Mortimer
ca. 1803 · Lithograph (polyautograph) · Drawings and Prints
This print is an example of Charles Heath's experiments with polyautography, as lithography was known when first introduced in London in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Based on a drawing by Mortimer, the image of a craggy-faced man wearing an exotic fur hat, echoes "oriental heads" etched by the Italian master Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-1664).
- Artist
- Charles Heath, the elder|John Hamilton Mortimer
- Date
- ca. 1803
- Medium
- Lithograph (polyautograph)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
