a very fresh impression on Rives paper with full, wide margins
printed by the artist and Aldo Crommelynck at the Atelier Crommelynck, Paris and published by Waddington Graphics, London
in perfect, pristine condition

in this brilliant etching Hamilton illustrates the many guises and costumes in which Bloom appears in the fantasy episode Circe of James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses; "the Futurist technique of overlapping and interpenetrating forms provided him with the pictorial solution to Bloom's rapid kaleidoscopic impersonations, which Hamilton has likened to those of a quick-change artist" (Stephen Coppel - Imaging James Joyce's Ulysses, British Council catalogue of the British Museum exhibition, 2003)
In the Circe episode Bloom undergoes changes of his appearance and character under the spell cast by the enchantress (Bella Cohen the madame of the brothel); in depicting these surreal transmogrifactions Bloom undergoes Hamilton has portrayed him in a skirt, with a dunce's cap, with animal ears and in the stocks as well as as a disembodied head.