Hamlet, Horatio and the Gravedigger

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Title

Hamlet, Horatio and the Gravedigger

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Collection

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Description

pen with grey, blue and pink wash 372 x 295 mm - Feb, 1804 Taken from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Act 5, Scene 1), the composition is adapted from Veronese’s St John the Baptist Preaching (Galleria Borghese, Rome) which Fuseli would have seen in an exhibition at the Louvre in 1802. The influence of Michelangelo can also be seen in the treatment of the...

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Date created

1804

Creator

Henry Fuseli

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https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/3339

Related subjects

graves / literature (humanities) / plays / men / grief / Romantic/European / Drawing

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