Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)after Henry Tresham, 1751–1814, British
Title:
Ophelia vide Hamlet, Act 4, Scene VII
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving, stipple engraving, aquatint, and brown wash
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "H. Tresham A. Inv. | There are the pendant boughs her coronet weeds | clambering to hang an envious sliver broke"; lettered, lower right: "Etch'd by F. Bartolozzi, R. A. | When down her weedy trophies and herself, Fell in the weeping brook. | Act 4. scene 7."; lettred, lower center: "OPHELIA vide HAMLET | London, Published, Augt.1.1794, by Mno. Bovi, No.207, Piccadilly near St. James's Church."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection