- Published / Created:
- [14 August 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.08.14.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature of the scene in Act I of Hamlet, the aged ghost in armor on the left, confronting a dissipated looking Hamlet dressed in black who stands between two terrified soldiers who wear British military uniforms
- Description:
- Title from item., Twenty-eight underscores separate the two words in the title., and Probable a reissue of a 1779 print; traces remaining of a different title.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd 14 Augt. 1782, by W. Stewart, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ghosts, Military uniforms, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ghost Hamlet [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [August 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 31. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Scene in the House of Lords at the Queen's 'trial', showing the throne against the end wall, with the two (temporary) galleries. The Queen exclaims in terror, both arms raised, at the sight of the first witness against her, Majocchi, and of the ghost of Princess Charlotte, who stands, draped in white, beside him, holding her infant, with an arm extended towards the Queen. The latter shrieks: "Theodore!! my Daughter too! ah! what have I done!!! Oh speak." The ghost, garbling Hamlet's words (III. iv, ll. 40-5; 92-4): "Such an Act good Mother, as blurs the / "Grace and Blush of Modesty, calls Virtue Hippocrite / "makes marriage vows as false as Dicers Oaths--Oh / "such a deed! to live in the rank sweat of an / ensemen'd bed stived [sic] in Corruption." Majocchi says: "Non mi Ricardo" [sic]. Beside the Queen, and on the extreme right, are Brougham and Denman, her counsel; they hold documents inscribed 'Defence of the Queen' and 'Queens Defence'. Both register astonished horror: Brougham exclaims (misquoting 'Hamlet', I. ii): "All is not well--I doubt / "some foul play!--for foul / "deeds, will rise--." Denman: "'Tis very strange!" ['Hamlet', I. ii]. The prosecuting counsel (left) are equally disturbed: Gifford, grasping the 'Bill of Pains [and P]enalties', exclaims, misquoting Horatio ['Hamlet', I. i]: "Behold it starteth like / "a guilty thing upon a shamefull "Summons." Copley: "Angels and Ministers / "of Grace defend us" ['Hamlet', I. iv]. A seated judge turns to them, pointing to the Queen, saying: "Look to the Queen!!" ['Hamlet', v. ii]. There is a background of peers, freely indicated, all startled, while spectators watch from the galleries. In the centre foreground a large green bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735) stands on the floor, from which clouds of smoke emerge; it has a strap (unbuckled) in the form of a huge Garter, inscribed 'Ho[ni]... Pense'. On the bag is a garbled version of Macbeth's words (I. ii): "Will all great Neptune's Ocean wash this Blood clean from this Bag? No! rather shall this Bag the multitudinous Realm incarnadine making the Green one Red.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 31 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by R.A. Fores, No. 71 Leadenhall St., Aldgate
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, and Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Legislative bodies, Interiors, Thrones, Fear, Ghosts, Witnesses, Documents, Spectators, Judges, Bags, and Belts (Clothing)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ghost as seen in the Hamlet of St. Stephens Chapel [graphic].
- Creator:
- Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1787?]
- Call Number:
- 787.00.00.20+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Shown before the gate of a castle, Hamlet is supported by two men as the ghost of his father, dressed in armour the knees of which are etched with the masks of Comedy and Tragedy, appears before him
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Two lines from Shakespeare Hamlet quoted below title: "Still I am called .. unhand me gentlemens [sic]. By heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me"., Date based on publisher's address. See Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Pro patria.
- Publisher:
- Published by Boyne & Walker, Turnstile, Holborn
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Armor, Gates, Ghosts, and Masks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hamlet [graphic].