Hamlet.Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us!
Dean & Co Threadneedle St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph heightened in white. Sheet 255 x 200mm, 10 x 8".
Social satire, a parody of the scenes in Shakespeare's Hamlet when the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him. A donkey draped in a white sheet is ushered through a door by moonlight into an interior by a mischievous boy, surprising another boy within who gestures in surprise, holding a fork in the other hand.
[Ref: 20656] £75.00
Hand coloured lithograph heightened in white. Sheet 255 x 200mm, 10 x 8".
Social satire, a parody of the scenes in Shakespeare's Hamlet when the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him. A donkey draped in a white sheet is ushered through a door by moonlight into an interior by a mischievous boy, surprising another boy within who gestures in surprise, holding a fork in the other hand.
[Ref: 20656] £75.00