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Hamlet in Scotland

Hamlet in Scotland
 1794

Medium
hand-coloured etching
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1928
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
19.3 × 16.2 cm (image) 22.4 × 16.2 cm (plate) 28.8 × 20.1 cm irreg. (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 8527
Printing/Publishing
published by Robert Dighton, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Drawn & Etchd (d in superscript) by R Dighton. printed in ink l.r.: 12 Charing Croſs
printed in ink l.c.: HAMLET in SCOTLAND. / A LARGE manager in a GREAT CHARACTER. / ----------that I have thought ſome of nature's journeymen had made / men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity ſo abominably. / Pubd (d in superscript) Decr (r in superscript) 6th (th in superscript) 1794.
Accession Number
1958.3.1-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1928
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Performing Arts
Subjects (specific)
actors (performing artists) caricatures characters (people by activity) gesture Kemble, Stephen men (male humans) profiles (figures) wigs

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