Artist Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798-1863
Printer Villain, French, 1819-1822
Printer Gihaut Frères, French, active 1820-1850
Title
  • La reine s'efforce de consoler Hamlet
  • Hamlet (series title)
Date 1834
Medium lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper
Dimensions Image (excluding letters): 10 × 7 3/4 inches (25.4 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 16 3/8 × 10 3/4 inches (41.6 × 27.3 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
Accession Number 67.257
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed on stone, lower right of image: Eug. Delacroix
Inscriptions Inscribed, printed below image, center: Cher Hamlet, ecarte cette sombre apparence, et jette un regard ami sur le roi.
Lower right: Lith. de Villain
Dated on stone, lower right of image: 1834
1968-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)