#Edwin Austin Abbey

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Edwin Austin Abbey - Study for The Hours in the Pennsylvania State Capitol (ca. 1909-11)

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The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail (Edwin Austin Abbey, 1895)

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Crusaders Sighting Jerusalem by Edwin Austin Abbey

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Malvolio en el calabozo - Acto III, Escena IV, Duodécima noche Edwin Austin Abbey

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Edwin Austin Abbey (1852 - 1911)

Figure Study, for The Spirit of Vulcan, Genius of the Workers in Iron and Steel, (ca. 1902–1908)

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May Day Morning, 1890–94 Edwin Austin Abbey

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L. V., i found this poem in a local paper's obituaries

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Ye Hag, from Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick by Edwin Austin Abbey (1882)

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Compositional Study by Edwin Austin Abbey

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Edwin Austin Abbey, The Wind, 1895

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Edwin Austin Abbey

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Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852 - 1911) - Study for Louis Comfort Tiffany’s center window for ‘Children’s Window’ , St. Peter’s Church, Morristown, NJ

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Within the Tent of Brutus: Enter the Ghost of Caesar, Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene III

by Edwin Austin Abbey

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Edwin Austin Abbey (American,1852-1911)

The Bridge, 1898

Oil on canvas

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The Play Scene in Hamlet Act III, Scene II

Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852–1911)

Date: 1897

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

This scene from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet depicts the assembled court of Denmark watching a play that Hamlet has devised to "catch the conscience of the king." Suspecting that his father, the former king, was poisoned by his uncle Claudius, Hamlet has orchestrated a performance with a similar assassination plot. Languidly sprawled on the ground beside a wide-eyed Ophelia, Hamlet looks furtively over his shoulder to gauge his uncle’s reaction. Everyone else stares beyond the painting’s setting, toward the "play" before them. The viewer, standing in front of the canvas, thus occupies the same space as the actors on stage. The Philadelphia-born Edwin Austin Abbey, who settled in London in 1878, won fame on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustrator and painter of literary classics.

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Edwin Austin Abbey / "King Lear," Act I, Scene I" / 1898 / Metropolitan Museum of Art