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Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Illustration for Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'1778

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Engraving of three figures in an 18th-century interior: a caped, helmeted figure in a doorway gestures toward a man in period dress pointing back at him, while a woman in a bonnet and apron grasps his arm

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Illustration for Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', 1778, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Vergil Whirlow, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Title
Illustration for Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1778
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 3/4 x 4 in. (17.15 x 10.16 cm); image: 5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in. (14.29 x 9.05 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Vergil Whirlow
Accession Number
55.103.169
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Engelmann, Wilhelm. Daniel Chodowiecki's sämmtliche kupferstiche : Beschrieben, mit historischen, literarischen und bibliographischen nachweisungen, der lebensbeschreibung des künstlers und registern versehen. Berlin: W. Engelmann, 1857.