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Scene from Hamlet
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1738-1820
(engraver)
1810-after 1870 (Life dates)
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Height: 12 cm
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Maker's mark: Recto: centre right, printed in image: A. Rouargue sc
Inscription: Recto: centre left, printed below image: West.
Inscription: Recto: centre, printed below image: SCENE FROM HAMLET. / SCÈNE TIRÉE D'HAMLET.
Inscription: Recto: centre left, blue ink: engr. (sec. 1.1) / A. Roumique / publ. 1831 / 3 3/16 "x 4 5/16"
Label: Recto: lower centre: WEST. / SCENE FROM HAMLET. / IN act 4, scene 5 of Hamlet, while Laertes incensed at the / death of his father Polonius, is denouncing indiscriminate / vengeance against all concerned; his sister Ophelia, bereft of / her understanding by the same event, rushes in, fantastically / ornamented with flowers. Her presence and unhappy condi- / tion naturally increases his resentment; he exclaims: / By heaven, thy madness shall be paid with weight, / Till our scale turn the heam. O rose of May! / Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! / O heavens, is't possible a young maid's wits / Should be as mortal as an old man's life? / Nature is fine in love: and where 'tis fine, / It sends some precious instance of itself / After the thing it loves. / West has successfully transferred the Poet's ideas to the / canvas: the ungovernable impetuosity of Laertes, the bewil- / dered vacancy of Ophelia, the unavailing remorse of the / Queen, and the fearful workings of a guilty conscience / in the King, are well conceived, and forcibly expressed. This / Picture was painted for Boydell's Shakspeare Gallery, and / was ably engraved for the larger series of Shakspearian illus- / trations, by Francis Legat.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, blue ink: Hamilton, 1831.
Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in blue: M
Stamp: Recto: right margin, stamped in black: WITT / LIBRARY
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