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Hamlet Has the Players Enact the Scene of His Father's Poisoning (Act III, Scene II)
1835
Eugène Delacroix (Artist) French, 1798-1863 Villain (Printer) French, 1819-1822 Gihaut Frères (Publisher) French, active 1820-1850
Lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper
Image: 9 3/4 × 12 11/16 inches (24.8 × 32.2 cm) Sheet: 10 13/16 × 16 5/16 inches (27.5 × 41.4 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
67.262
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed on stone, lower right: Eug. Delacroix
Inscribed, printed below image, center: C'est un intrigue scelerate; mais qu'importe? Votre Majeste et nous avons la conscience libre, cela ne nous touche en rien... vous voyez: il l'empoisonne dans le jardin pour emparer de son | royaume... l'histoire est reelle ecrite en bel italien. Lower right: Lith. de Villain. Dated on stone, lower right: 1835
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1968-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet Has the Players Enact the Scene of His Father's Poisoning (Act III, Scene II), 1835, lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 67.262.
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