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Hamlet and Ophelia

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1858

Physical Description

Medium: pen and ink
Dimensions: 12 x 10 1/2 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1858
Note: Monogram is in lower right corner.

Production Description

Production Date: 1858
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C, 1883 (no.31); New Gallery, 1897 (no.33); Birmingham, 1947 (no.214); Baden-Baden, 1973-74 (no.114); Yale, 1976 (no.33); Tate, 1984 (no.211)
Original Cost: 40 guineas

Provenance

Current Location: British Museum
Catalog Number: 1910-12-10-8
Archival History: T. E. Plint; Col. Gillum Bequest, British Museum

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

See the related early drawing of the same subject, also housed in the British Library, and the 1866 watercolour.

Bibliography

Hamlet and Ophelia
Copyright: © Licensed by the Trustees of the British Museum

Reproductions

  1. image

    Wood, Drawings of DGR , 79, plate xxx.
  2. image

    Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 83.
  3. image

    Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 96.
  4. image

    Mansell print, Delaware Art Museum.
  5. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 152.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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