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Portfolio wrapper

(French, 1798–1863)
1843
Medium/TechniquePrinted title page
DimensionsOverall: 56 x 37.7 cm (22 1/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession number2010.1322.16
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ClassificationsPrints
Description

Tan wrappers for 1843 edition: "Hamlet. /Treize Sujets Dessinés/ par/ Eug. Delacroix/ à Paris/chez Gihaut Frères, Editrs. Boulevard des Italiens, 5./Lith. de Villain rue de Sèvres 19."

The wrappers are considered to be rare.

ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)