print
- Museum number
- 2021,7005.7
- Title
- Object: Self-portrait in a cracked mirror
- Description
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Head and neck self portrait of the artist wearing half spectacles and a dark top, viewed in a mirror with a crack from the top centre to the lower left. 1985
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1985
- Dimensions
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Height: 297 millimetres (Plate)
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Height: 452 millimetres (Sheet)
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Width: 228 millimetres
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Width: 325 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published in an edition of 30. Richard Hamilton made this self-portrait as a way of exploring the technique of soft-ground etching while working with the printer Aldo Crommelynck in Paris. The artist's fingerprints are visible at the bottom of the image.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2023, 30 March - 10 Sept, London, BM, Gallery 90, 'New acquisitions: Paul Bril to Wendy Red Star'
- Acquisition date
- 2021
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2021,7005.7