Included Text
What should such fellows as I do, crawling between earth and heaven?
Hamlet and Ophelia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1866
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 15 x 11 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1866
Note: The monogram and date are inscribed at lower left.
Production Description
Production Date: 1866
Exhibition History: R.A., 1883 (no.354); Walker Art Gallery Liverpool,
Grand Loan Exhibition, 1886 (no.822); Rome,
International Fine Arts, 1911 (no.561); R.A.,
British Art, 1934 (no.837); Bournemouth 1951 (no.39); Newcastle 1971 (no.61); R.A., 1973 (no.313)
Provenance
Current Location: Ashmolean Museum
Archival History: A.T. Squarey; Gordon Bottomley; By bequest Kerrison Preston 1949
Reproductions
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Hollyer print. -
Hollyer print. -
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 96, 145. -
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 279.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s189.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The watercolour was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in 2008.
Pictorial
The Shakespeare quotation is inscribed in the frame below the picture.
Bibliography