Oriental Head
Charles Heath, the elder British
After John Hamilton Mortimer British
Not on view
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).
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