大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 10月11日 19時45分

This haunting lithograph was created by the renowned sculptor Richard Hunt when he was just 19, in response to the brutal murder of Emmett Till in August 1955.

Emmett Till, like Hunt, was an African American from Chicago. At just 14 years of age, Till was tortured and lynched after being falsely accused of harassing a young white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi.

Hunt uses the image of Prometheus – in Greek myth, a man condemned by Zeus to eternal suffering – to express the torment, pain, and fear experienced by Emmett Till.

In the aftermath of his tragic death, Till posthumously emerged as an enduring symbol of the civil rights movement.

🏛 You can learn more about the impact and importance of Richard Hunt’s work in our curator’s blog – link in bio.

Richard Hunt (born 1935), Prometheus. Lithograph, 1956. Presented anonymously in honour of Noël Annesley © Reproduced by permission of the artist.

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