Ophelia / after R. Redgrove, R.A. – Antique Print
![Ophelia / after R. Redgrove, R.A., [between 1880 and 1900] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c9/c92de08aa837-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Ophelia / after R. Redgrove, R.A., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Ophelia / after R. Redgrove, R.A.
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Ophelia, the drowning figure from Shakespeare's *Hamlet*, is the subject here, shown in a color lithograph after a painting by R. Redgrove, R.A., a member of the Royal Academy. Between 1880 and 1900, Ophelia was one of the most frequently painted literary heroines in Britain, drawn again and again with her flowers, loose hair, and melancholy. Chromolithographs like this were printed from several stones or plates, one for each color, which brought gallery subjects into middle-class parlors at modest cost. The process typically turns a painting's brushwork into layered flat tints, so the print's surface is worth comparing with the original's.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1850-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1850-1900. |
| Subjects | Ophelia (Fictitious character)--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,132 × 1,452 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219038 |
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