“Her mood will needs be pitied.”(IV, 5)

Ophelia in Art

Ophelia. Jean Baptiste Bertrand, 1873.

Mad Ophelia. Henry Selous, 1868.

Laertes and Ophelia. Maurice Greiffenhagen, 1885

The First Madness of Ophelia. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1864.

Ophelia, Georg Falkenberg. c. 1898.

Ophelia’s Mad Scene. Benjamin West, 1805.

Ophelia. Arthur Hughes, c. 1863-64

Ophelia.John William Waterhouse, 1894

Ophelia. John William Waterhouse, 1889

Ophelia. John William Waterhouse, 1910

Ophelia. Madeleine Lemaire, 1880.

“Gertrude: There is a willow grows aslant a brook,That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;There with fantastic garlands did she comeOf crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purplesThat liberal shepherds give a grosser name,But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weedsClambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;When down her weedy trophies and herselfFell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;As one incapable of her own distress,Or like a creature native and induedUnto that element: but long it could not beTill that her garments, heavy with their drink,Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious layTo muddy death.” (IV, 7)

Ophelia. Richard Westall

Ophelia Vide Hamlet. Henry Tresham, 1794.

The Drowning of Ophelia. W.G. Simmonds (1910)

The Death of Ophelia. Eugene Delacroix (1853)

Ophelia. Sir John Everett Millais (1852)

“Ophelia” by JoWonder (executed in live bacteria cultures)

Harold Copping.

Ophelia. Photograph by

Kara Siemiaszko

Odilon Redon. Ophélie, 1905.

Ophelia. Kim Stringfellow, 1989