Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886, British
Title:: Hamlet and his Mother; The Closet Scene
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 × 34 inches (102.2 × 86.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Dated in red paint, lower left: "PINXIT 1846"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.188
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: hands | literary theme | surprise | pleading | closet | crown (costume component) | queen (person) | fear | gesture | curtain | drapery | stool | sword | portrait | Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:: Not on view
Exhibition History:: Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 76-77, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Nicholas Tromans, Richard Dadd, the artist and the asylum , Tate Publishing, London, 2011, pp. 20, 21, 24, 34, fig. 9, NJ18 D121 T76 + (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:698