Ophelia, 1775

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series Title

Twelve Characters from Shakespeare

Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 40.2 × 32.7 cm (15 13/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

sheet: 59 × 43.6 cm (23 1/4 × 17 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler

Catalogue Raisonné

Sunderland 1986, no. 96.3

Accession Number

2017.53.98

Artists / Makers

John Hamilton Mortimer (artist) British, 1740 - 1779

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Inscription

upper center in plate: OPHELIA.; lower center in plate: There's Fennel for you and Columbines / There's Rue for you and some for me. / Hamlet Act IV Scene 7 / Published May 20, 1775, by J MORTIMER, Norfolk Street, STRAND

Provenance

(Willliam Weston Gallery, London, 24 June 1987); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Vogler, Donald
Vogler, Thomas
Weston Gallery, William

Bibliography

1986: Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works," Walpole Society 52 (1986): no. 96.3