'Ophelia Weaving her Garlands' 🔱
Artist: Richard Redgrave, Great Britain Date: 1842 Medium: Oil on canvas
The depiction of Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia was praised for its psychological insight. It was exhibited beside lines adapted from Hamlet:
”There is a willow grows ascaunt the brook That shews his hoar leaves in the glossy stream There with fantastic garland did she make Of crow-flowers ,nettles, daisies, and long purples.”