Richard Dadd, 1817–1886, British, Hamlet and his Mother; The Closet Scene, 1846
- Title:
- Hamlet and his Mother; The Closet Scene
- Date:
- 1846
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 40 1/4 × 34 inches (102.2 × 86.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Dated in red paint, lower left: "PINXIT 1846"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.188
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.188FR
- Subject Terms:
- closet | crown (costume component) | curtain | drapery | fear | gesture | Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare | hands | literary theme | pleading | portrait | queen (person) | stool | surprise | sword
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Gertrude (character in Hamlet) - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:698
- Export:
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 76-77, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Nicholas Tromans, Richard Dadd, the artist and the asylum , Tate Publishing, London, 2011, pp. 20, 21, 24, 34, fig. 9, NJ18 D121 T76 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
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