Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands
| Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Richard Redgrave |
| Year | 1842 |
| Type | Oil on panel, history painting |
| Dimensions | 76.2 cm × 63.5 cm (30.0 in × 25.0 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands is an 1842 oil painting by the British artist Richard Redgrave. It shows Ophelia from William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.[1] [2] Depicted as madness has overcome her, she is shown creating a garland. The painting includes over thirty different types of flower.[3]
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 at the National Gallery, where it was hung near Daniel Maclise's The Play Scene in Hamlet.[4] Today the work is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, having been gifted by John Sheepshanks in 1857.[5]
References
- ^ Sanabria p.30-31
- ^ Rhodes p.73
- ^ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80570/ophelia-weaving-her-garlands-oil-painting-redgrave-richard/
- ^ Young p.331
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/ophelia-weaving-her-garlands-30588
Bibliography
- Rhodes, Kimberly. Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 2017.
- Sanabria, Carolina. Ophelia Through Time: Reimaginings in Art and Film. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025.
- Young, Alan R. Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900. University of Delaware Press, 2002.