Mort d'Hamlet (The Death of Hamlet), Act V, scene 2, 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)
Credit line
Gift of The Tobin Endowment
Accession number
TL2001.48.12
Object type
Prints
Department
Theatre Arts
Location
Not on view
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
Ah! je meurs Horatie! justifie moi et ma cause auprès de ceux qui m'accuseraient ... / Quelle vaste curée a faite la mort! que de princes frappés à la fois par le trépas!

[Hamlet: Horatio, I am dead; / ... report me and my cause aright / To the unsatisfied...

Prince Fortinbras (the English ambassador): This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death, ... / That thou so many princes at a shot / So bloodily hast struck?]
Documentation
Ingres, Delacroix; Loys Delteil; 1969; 118
Subject period
Romanticist
Associated person
William Shakespeare (British, b.1564, d.1616)
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