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Hamlet and Ophelia [print]

DGR

1912 (circa)

Physical Description

Medium: Color print mounted on white construction paper matte. Opens like a card with an overlay panel that frames the picture when folded; picture is mounted on inside right panel.

Dimensions: Board (paper): 48.3 cm x 38.3 cm (folded); print: 30.6 cm x 23 cm

Other production information determined from the object: An image of the inside panel is available for viewing.

Note: The document is made to open and fold like a card, with an overlay panel that is die-cut and frames the picture when folded over the picture panel. On the recto of the overlay panel, there are orange stains on the lower left. On the verso of the overlay panel, vertical and horizontal pencil lines extend from the edges of the cut-out frame. On the verso of the picture panel, a rectangular piece of beige paper is pasted to the board, with brown borderlines dividing the rectangle into thirds. In the top third is brown, typewritten text. Text in the middle third is written in cursive black ink. The bottom third has both brown, typewritten text and black ink manuscript.

Production Description

Production Date: 1912 (circa)

Note: From a photograph by Frederick Hollyer.

Provenance

Current Location: Delaware Art Museum

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Elzea, Bancroft and Related Collections, 212.

Included Text

Manuscript Addition: Hamlet

Editorial Description: On the recto of the overlay panel, written in cursive pencil across top center.

Manuscript Addition: Colour Print

Editorial Description: On the recto of the picture panel, written in orange ink beneath the picture on the left.

Manuscript Addition: Fred k Hollyer

Editorial Description: On the recto of the picture panel, written beneath the print on the lower right.

Manuscript Addition: 97

Editorial Description: On the verso of the picture panel, written in pencil at the top left corner.

Manuscript Addition: XX

Editorial Description: On the verso of the picture panel, written in pencil at the top right corner.

COLOUR PRINT BY FRED k HOLLYER

9 PEMBROKE SQUARE, KENSINGTON, W.

Note: Brown type.

Manuscript Addition: Hamlet & Ophelia / D. G. Rossetti

Manuscript Addition: No. 14 Fred k Hollyer

Editorial Description: “No.” in brown type; the rest written in black ink.

Manuscript Addition: S189

Editorial Description: On the verso of the picture panel, written in pencil at the bottom left.

Editorial Note: The reference is to the work's catalogue number in Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné .

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

File Name: sa686.s189.rap.xml