Art, literature & history
Hamlet Attempts to Slay the King, plate 8 from Hamlet
1843
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 25.4 × 18.1 cm (10 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 54.7 × 35.6 cm (21 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.612h
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Eugène Delacroix. Hamlet Attempts to Slay the King, plate 8 from Hamlet. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Hamlet Attempts to Slay the King, plate 8 from Hamlet — Eugène Delacroix. 1843.
Medium: Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 25.4 × 18.1 cm (10 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 54.7 × 35.6 cm (21 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.