Strike a pose.... A rather staged and lounging Ophelia by Victor Müller (c.1869 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main) for this week's "Melancholy, elegiac, blasé, unhappy, in short: quite curious,” is apparently how Müller described his work...

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Lily-Pad or Billowing Angel? This week's Ophelia is by W.G Simmonds (1910, an illustration from an edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet owned by the Huntington Library) for

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