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Description: | William George Simmonds was born in Istanbul in Turkey in 1876 and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1903 onwards. Simmonds also took up sculpture in 1913, working in wood, ivory and stone. Some of his sculpture is in the Tate Gallery in London. The scenes from Hamlet by William Shakespeare were commissioned from Simmonds by Hodder and Stoughton, the London publishers. This edition was published in 1912. The four watercolours seen here are from a group of ten of these illustrations, together with a farm scene, given to the Laing in 1993. The subjects shown here are: (Top Left) - Polonius, King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. Act II. Scene II.(Top Right) - Ophelia drowning. Act IV. Scene VII. (Bottom Left) - Hamlet thrusting the cup of poison at the King, the Queen dead. Act IV. Scene II. (Bottom Right) - Hamlet dead, carried on a bier. Act V. Scene II. The models for Ophelia were two sisters who were the artist's cousins, and mother and aunt to Mrs. Newnes, who gave the watercolours to the Laing. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1912 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | William George Simmonds | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/artonline/se... | Go to resource |
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