Hamlet & Horatio in Graveyard with Skull 1937 Print A1

1937 offset litho print of the painting

HAMLET and HORATIO in the Graveyard with Skull

by French artist 

Eugene Delacroix 1828

11 x 13.25 inches or approx 27.5 x 33 cm

Based on Shakespeare's text:  

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? (Hamlet, V.i)

Original painting Hamlet und Horatio auf dem Friedhof  is in the Vienna Albertina collection

Ask if you would like a copy of the text of the 1937 notes by Bernard Myers,  Ph.D, the NYU art historian who wrote for the project. 

This print on matte stock was part of a series published in New Jersey in 1937.  The painting was included in a lithographing project for an art appreciation series supported by such dignitaries as Eleanor Roosevelt.  According to the Harvard University Crimson newspaper, the Great Depression project was inexplicably abandoned and its high quality glass plates found in a government warehouse in the mid-1970s.   The technology was an innovative combination of lithography and offset. We acquired these in the large portfolio envelopes received by subscribers, four different prints per installment. While a large number were printed in 1937 under the auspices of the National Committee for Art Appreciation, it may be hard to find one in superior condition just when you want it.

Frame it, collect it or use in your hard copy publication.  No condition issues. No stains, no chips, no tears, no creases, no damp lines, no foxing.  The print is somewhat bigger than our scanner.  Sturdy, speedy mailing between fresh cardboard in stiff new mailer. We do not reproduce prints.   Fine condition. Sent quickly on payment. The seller is writing a history of this project for publication.

Ask about other prints in this series.  As of this posting I believe we have them all.  Click International Art in the link above this listing to see others that we have listed or ask us to list the following: 

Thomas Hart Benton   Lassoing Horses                Richard Parkes Bonington  Seacoast          Bouchet Madame de Pompadour

Pieter the Elder Breughel The Peasant Wedding        Carvaggio The Lute Player        Mary Cassatt Mother and Child        Jon Corbino  Flood Scene

Corot Wheelwright's Yard at the Side of the Seine       Gustave Courbet  After the Hunt          Jon Sturart Curry  Line Storm

Jacques Louis David Mlle. Charlotte du Val D’ognes        Daumier Third Class Carriage        Eugene Delacroix Hamlet         Edgar Degas  Two Dancers

Andre Derain, Andre  The Blue Oak        Albrecht Duer View of Trent        Thomas Eakins Lady with a Setter        Fragonard Girl with a Marmot

Thomas Gainsborough  Mrs Grace Dalrymple Elliott        Gauguin Women of Tahiti     El Greco View of Toledo        Greuze Broken Eggs

Hals, Franz Bohemian Girl        Holbein, Hans, Anne of Cleves        Homer, Winslow Bahama Tornado      Claude Lorain The Ford         Frans Marc Blue Horses

(imperfect edge)        Quentin Massas The Banker and His Wife        Millet Autumn      Matisse Odalisque         Michelangelo The Creation of Adam       Monet

The Seine near Argenteuil         Picasso  Motherhood      Raphael Madonna Tempi        Rembrandt The Noble Slav          Renoir By the Seashore          Sir

Joshua Reynolds Colonel George Coussmaker     Rubens Fox and Wolf Hunt         Titian The Duke of Ferrara         Joseph Turner Grand Canal Venice        Velasquez The Infanta Margarita in Red     Vincent Van Gogh Draw Bridge at Arles        Jan Vermeer Young Woman with a Water Jug        da Vinci, Leonardo Mona Lisa      Watteau, Antoin Le Messetin        Wood, Grant Arbor Day

Print is a little bigger than our scanner.      Click International Art in the link above this listing to see others that we have listed

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