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.