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Eugène Delacroix, printmaker

Hamlet et Horatio Devant les Fossoyeurs (Hamlet and Horatio Before the Gravediggers), 1843

Description

Maker

  • François le Villain, printer
  • Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, French, printmaker

Title

Hamlet et Horatio Devant les Fossoyeurs (Hamlet and Horatio Before the Gravediggers)

Year

1843

Medium

Lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight Oriental tissue paper mounted on medium weight cream wove paper (chine collé)

Dimensions

Plate: 28.9 x 21 cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered with artist's signature and date in image LL: "Eug. Delacroix 1843.". LC: "Ce crâne, Monsieur, ètait celui d'Yorick. le Bouffon du Roi. __ Hèl às! Pauvre Yorick!"; LR: "Lith. de Villain"
Verso: stamped with the collector's mark of Heinrich Schwarz (Lugt 1372)

Identification

State

ii/iii

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

50.111

About

Hamlet at left stands at the edge of a grave, looking upon the skull of Yoric, held by a grave digger waist-deep in the grave. Another sits with his back to the viewer, Horatio looks on. From a series of 16 prints.

Lettered with artist's signature and date in image LL: "Eug. Delacroix 1843.". LC: "Ce crâne, Monsieur, ètait celui d'Yorick. le Bouffon du Roi. __ Hèl às! Pauvre Yorick!"; LR: "Lith. de Villain"
Verso: stamped with the collector's mark of Heinrich Schwarz (Lugt 1372)

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Projects & Publications

Publications

Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré

the graphic works of nineteenth and twentieth century artists

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Helen M. Danforth

June 21 - September 8, 1985

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Hamlet et Horatio Devant les Fossoyeurs (Hamlet and Horatio Before the Gravediggers) with the accession number of 50.111. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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