[Engraved by William Wynne Ryland after Giovanni Battista Cipriani.]
Publish'd Dec.r 2 1786 by J. Walker, Carver & Printseller No 148 Strand London.
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 355 x 280mm (13¾ x 11"). Trimmed within plate.
Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5: Ophelia, her mind unhinged by her father's murder, she offers herbs and flowers to her brother, the queen and king. Soon after this scene, she will fall into a brook while picking flowers and drown. An early state: an edition of April 1787 has the added engraved text: ''Oph: There's Fennel for you, & Columbines: / There's Rue for you; _".
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