Ophelia

Course History

ENGL 22, The Rise of the Novel, Alysia Garrison, Spring 2015

ENGL 75.2, Climate Fiction, Alysia Garrison, Spring 2019

HUM 1, Dialogue with the Classics, Andrea Tarnowski, Spring 2019

HUM 1.02/HUM 1.03/HUM 1.04, Dialogues with the Classics, Carolyn Dever, Paul Carranza, Antonia Gomez, Fall 2019

HUM 1.05/HUM 1.06/HUM 1.07, Dialogues with the Classics, Klaus Mladek, Michelle Clarke, Andrea Tarnowski, Fall 2019

ENGL 23.01, Romantic Literature: Aesthetics and Ideology from the French Revolution to ,, Winter 2021

Studio Art 25.01, Studio Art 31.01, Painting I, II, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2024

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 87, The Tortured Soul: Exploring the Excesses of Human Emotion, Laura Dorn, Class of 2015, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 11-May 24, 2015.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July-September 2013.

Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Ar, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26- November 22, 2013.

Pre-Raphealite Gallery, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996-2005.

The Myth and Madness of Ophelia, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26–December 16, 2001.

Published References

Friedman, Winifred H. Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1976. West, Shearer. "John Boydell. Grove Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. London; New York: Grove/Macmillan, 1996. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. Retrieved on 26 November 2007. Richard J. Westall, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 Young, Alan, Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.

Provenance

Painted for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, London, 1790; sold by lottery to William Tassie, London, 1805; by whom sold Christie's London, 20 May 1805, lot 30, as "Ophelia - full of grace and elegance"; where acquired by Dr. Westrop, 1805, for £19.8.6; private collection, London, England, in the early 1990s [bought-in: Sotheby's, Colonade, British Paintings & Watercolours, Sale LN4744 FOL, Lot 86 , December 14, 1994]; collection of Henry H. Erbe III and Margaret Trevisani Erbe, Boston, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 2013.

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