print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.5852
- Title
- Object: Ophelia
- Description
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Ophelia on the bank of the stream prepares to drown herself; in an oval after Smirke; plate 3 of 4 for 'Hamlet' from Charles Taylor's 'Picturesque Beauties of Shakspeare' of 1783-7. 1783
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 234 millimetres
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Width: 182 millimetres (platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 1868,0822.5842 to 5881 is a series of 40 plates which were published under the title 'The Picturesque Beauties of Shakspeare, being a selection of scenes, from the works of that ... author' by Charles and then Isaac Taylor between 1783 and 1787. They were engraved under the direction of Charles Taylor (and his successors) from drawings by Robert Smirke and Thomas Stothard, and were not published with any associated text.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Hamlet
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.5852