Le meurtre de Polonius (The Murder of Polonius), Act III, scene 4, in Hamlet
Maker and role
Artist: Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798-1863
Year
1843
Object detail
Media/Materials
Lithograph on chine-collé
Measurements
sheet, 22 x 14in (55.9 x 35.6cm)
image, 11 x 8 1/2in (27.9 x 21.6cm)
image, 11 x 8 1/2in (27.9 x 21.6cm)
Credit line
Gift of The Tobin Endowment
Accession number
TL2001.48.8
Object type
Department
Location
Theatre production
Play by William Shakespeare, influenced by an English production in Paris in 1827, with Charles Kemble as Hamlet and Harriet Smithson as Ophelia.
Further information
Qu'est-ce donc? ... Un rat
(Hamlet: How now? A rat!)
(Hamlet: How now? A rat!)
Documentation
Ingres, Delacroix; Loys Delteil; 1969; 111
Subject period
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