- Title:
- Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii
- Date:
- 1863
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower right: "C. Hunt | 1863"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.2
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.2FR
- Subject Terms:
- actors | audience | bottle | boys | chairs | children | costume | curtains | flute | games | gesture | girls | glove | guards (security) | Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare | interior | king (person) | literary theme | lovers | man | music | musical instruments | observers | parents | play | queen (person) | theater (discipline) | toys | violin | woman
- Associated People:
- Ophelia (character in Hamlet)
Hamlet
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet - Access:
- Not on view
- Exhibition History:
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
Shakespeare in Western Art (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-08)
Shakespeare in Western Art (Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-02)
Shakespeare in Western Art (Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1992-11-28 - 1992-12-23)
Shakespeare in Western Art (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-10-29 - 1992-11-24)
Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:213
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Charles Hunt, 1803–1877, British, Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii, 1863
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