Scotland

The Death of Ophelia by Richard Westall, reduced replica of the painting made for Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and engraved in 1793

English, late 18th or early 19th century

watercolor on paper

British Museum

⎨Literature Edits⎬→ Hamlet, William Shakespeare “If it be now, ‘tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.”

(ophelia in art x turn of the century portraiture)

Hamlet’s Vision, 1893, by Pedro Américo (Brazilian, 1843-1905)

SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES — reimagined penguin classics.

— Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2