Oil on canvas
Height: 76.2 cm (30 in). Width: 111.8 cm (44 in).
Tate Britain, London
The painting depicts Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing while floating in a river just before she drowns:
"Her clothes spread wide / And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up.". But eventually, "her garments, heavy with their drink / Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay" down "to muddy death.
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