The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus and the Ghost (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4)

Shearjashub Spooner|Robert Thew|Henry Fuseli|John & Josiah Boydell|William Shakespeare

first published 1796; reissued 1852

Attribution

Reissued by| |After|Originally published by| Shearjashub Spooner|Robert Thew|Henry Fuseli|John & Josiah Boydell|William Shakespeare | | | | American, Brandon, Vermont 1809–1859 Plainfield, New Jersey|British, Patrington 1758–1802 Stevenage|Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London|British, 1786–1804|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon

Medium

Stipple engraving; fourth state of four

Physical dimensions

Image: 17 in. × 23 7/16 in. (43.2 × 59.5 cm) Sheet: 21 9/16 x 27 1/2 in. (54.8 x 69.8 cm)

Credit line

Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942