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Prints: P1497
Title
Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
Subject
Character
Hamlet : Hamlet
Artist
Lafayette (London, England)Royal Shakespeare Company
Dimensions
height: 18.9cm
width: 12.3cm
width: 12.3cm
Inscription/signature
Printed on front: "MME. SARAH BERNHARDT AS "HAMLET." / Lafayette / LTD. / COPYRIGHT. / LONDON, DUBLIN, GLASGOW, / MANCHESTER & BELFAST. / Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) / Paris 1899, in French prose version, London and Stratford the same year / A practical courageous Hamlet for Max Beerbohm 'tres grand dame.' / Reproduced with kind permission of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. RSC"
Provenance
Presented by Michael Gaunt, March 2026.
Other number
E0162
Reproduction of a photograph depicting Dame Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet in William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. Bernhardt is depicted full length and standing in front of a landscape backdrop facing the right. She wears a short fur-lined tunic with puff sleeves, a white shirt, belt, a cloak is draped over her left arm and she holds a skull in her right hand.
