  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  The Murder of Polonius (Act III, Scene IV)
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1834 and 1843
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Eugène Delacroix  (Artist)
  French, 1798-1863
  Villain  (Printer)
  French, 1819-1822
  Gihaut Frères  (Publisher)
  French, active 1820-1850
  
  
  
  Medium
  Lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Image (excluding letters): 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 inches (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
  Sheet: 16 3/8 × 10 7/8 inches (41.6 × 27.6 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Prints
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  67.264
  
  
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