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canvas
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oil paint
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Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
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Gertrude (character in Hamlet)
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Hamlet and his Mother; The Closet Scene
1846
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