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A leading founder of Pop Art and one of the most influential British artists of the 20th Century, Richard Hamilton made frequent use of images gleaned from printed matter in common circulation. Here he has taken a notorious newspaper photograph showing Mick Jagger handcuffed to the art dealer Robert Fraser following their appearance in court on drugs charges. Hamilton took exception to the severity of the charges, deeming that treatment would be more appropriate, and used the image in several different ways.
The making of the print entailed some experimental mixed techniques: hard-ground etching with aquatint, embossing, photo-etching, metallic foil die-stamping with collage/mould-made etching paper, and partial colour printing. It was printed, embossed, and die-stamped by the artist with Giorgio Upligio at Grafica Uno, Milan; then collaged by the artist in London and published by Petersburg Press.
