Hamlet and Polonius, 1843/1847

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Medium

etching and drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.91 × 17.78 cm (8 5/8 × 7 in.)

sheet: 33.97 × 28.89 cm (13 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Dorgerloh 1896, no. 1380

Accession Number

2014.169.1

Artists / Makers

Adolph Menzel (artist) German, 1815 - 1905

Image Use

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Inscription

across top, in reverse: Seht ihr die Wolke dort beinahe in Gestalt eines Kameels?; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 132 / 23 / Hamlet und Polonius

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Bibliography

1896: Dorgerloh, A. Verzeichnis der durch kunstdruck vervielfältigen arbeiten Adolf Menzels. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1896: no. 1380