The Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Woodcut
1925 (printed)
1925 (printed)
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Woodcut illustration depicting the ghost of Hamlet's father.
Object details
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| Title | The Ghost of Hamlet's Father (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | woodcut |
| Brief description | 'The Ghost of Hamlet's Father', woodcut, Edward Gordon Craig, Great Britain, 1925 |
| Physical description | Woodcut illustration depicting the ghost of Hamlet's father. |
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| Copy number | 14 |
| Marks and inscriptions | Only 150 copies printed. copy 14. (inscribed in pencil) |
| Object history | This is one of a series of woodcuts produced by Craig for a new edition of Hamlet, printed in 1928 (German) and 1930 (English) by Count Harry Kessler's Cranach Press in Weimar. Craig had recently designed a production of Hamlet for the Moscow Art Theatre, and brought a theatrical sensibility to the illustrations, even basing some of the woodcuts on the models he had made while designing the stage production. |
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| Literary reference | Hamlet |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1925, London: Board of Education, 1926. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1443-1925 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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