drawing
- Museum number
- 1891,0926.1
- Description
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Study for the picture 'Ophelia weaving her Garlands'; whole-length figure seated by stream, wearing wreath of flowers, head tilted to left
Coloured chalks and watercolour
- Production date
- 1842 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 196 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The painting dated 1842 was exhibited that year at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, is now in the Sheepshanks collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum (FA.171[O]), for the painting see Susan P. Casteras and Ronald Parkinson (eds), exhib. cat, London, Victoria and Albert and Yale, Yale Center for British Art, 'Richard Redgrave 1804-1888', 1988, no. 23, pl. 109. Three preliminary studies for the painting are in the BM: 1891,0926.2-4
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1969, BM, 'Royal Academy Draughtsmen 1769-1969', no.274
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Hamlet
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,0926.1
