Prints: P1498

Title

Sir Henry Irving as Hamlet

Subject

Irving, Henry John (Sir)

Character

Hamlet : Hamlet

Artist

Royal Shakespeare Company

Dimensions

height: 18.9cm
width: 12.3cm

Inscription/signature

Printed on front: "MR. HENRY IRVING AS HAMLET / Henry Irving (1838-1905) / 1874. The scholars' Hamlet: flexible, poetic, deeply affectionate. Irving could / excite as much in his intense, charged quietness as in passion. / Reproduced with kind permission of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. RSC"

Provenance

Presented by Michael Gaunt, March 2026.

Other number

E0162

Reproduction of a print depicting Sir Henry Irving as Hamlet in William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. Irving is depicted full length and standing in an architectural backdrop facing the left. He wears a black jacket, tunic and tights with a white shirt, belt, dagger, sword, and he holds an open book in his hands.