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- Title:
Master Betty as Hamlet, before a Bust of Shakespeare
- Date:
- between 1804 and 1806
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 22 x 16 inches (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.5
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.5FR
- Subject Terms:
- black | brazier (metalworker) | burning | bust | chalice | column (architectural element) | costume | curtain | Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare | incense burner | literary theme | man | mask | sculpture | shadow | shield | smoke | step | theater (discipline)
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Betty, William Henry West (1791–1874), actor - Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:215
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