Oliver Cromwell
Artist
Charles Turner
(English, 1774 - 1857)
Date1806-1816
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall: 15 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (39.37 × 26.34 cm)
Mat: 21 1/4 × 16 inches (53.98 × 40.64 cm)
Mat: 21 1/4 × 16 inches (53.98 × 40.64 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-74/27
Signed(pl.,b.c.):"C. Turner fecit."
Edition/State/ProofI/III
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryUniversity of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1954.
Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998, no cat.
Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 19-November 28, 2010, no cat., as Oliver Cromwell.
Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 17-July 15, 2018, no cat., as Oliver Cromwell.
Oliver Cromwell (1599?1658) helped defeat Charles I in the English Civil War of the 1640s and was responsible for the king's execution. Subsequently, he ruled England as a virtual dictator for nearly a decade. Cromwell was an effective head of state, boosting England's status abroad, and was much admired by succeeding generations for his republican, anti-monarchist virtues. Here he is shown trampling on the Whore of Babylon and a serpent, both symbols of vice, accompanied by Fame with a trumpet. Two versions of the print are shown. The first, less detailed version is etched in line. The second, more finished version is worked up to a higher finish in mezzotint, a process in which the original etched line is reinforced by shading.
With Knoedler and Co., New York, by May 1, 1932;
Purchased from Knoedler and Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.Alfred Whitman, Charles Turner (London: George Bell and Sons, 1907), no. 472 II/III, p. 173, as Oliver Cromwell.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 149, 287, (repro.), as Oliver Cromwell, after W. Faithorne.
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