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Eugène Delacroix

Hamlet Makes the Players Enact the Poisoning of His Father, plate 7 from Hamlet

1835
Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper
24.9 × 32.3 cm (9.8 × 12.7 in)

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