Dante gabriel rossetti ophelia

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This is a scene from Shakespeare's play ‘Hamlet’. It shows Ophelia mad with grief from Hamlet's rejection and her father's death.

Rossetti had founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt. This watercolour reflects his love of medieval dress and pattern. Charles Edward Lees bought this artwork in 1892. It was given to the Gallery much later, in 1952, by his daughter Marjory (1878–1970). It had formerly belonged to the Glasgow-born politician and Pre-Raphaelite patron William Graham (1817–1885).

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