Artwork
Print Collection
Print Collection is a print by the Impressionist artist Edward Gordon Craig. It dates from 1898 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
About this work
This print shows Ellen Terry as Ophelia, cut into wood by her son in 1898. It’s one of the few woodcuts he made, and it turns a famous stage role into quiet art.
Ellen Terry played Ophelia on stage years earlier. Her son chose a single moment from that play for this small print.
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Overview
A wood engraving by Edward Gordon Craig depicts Ellen Terry in the role of Ophelia, shown standing and gazing to the left while holding a spray of flowers in her left hand. The print was created in 1898, drawing from Terry’s performance as Ophelia opposite Henry Irving’s Hamlet at the Lyceum Theatre in 1878.
Artist & collection
Artist
Edward Henry Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; Part of the Terry family and son of the actress Ellen Terry, he worked as an actor in his youth before becoming a director and scenic designer,…
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