“Hamlet”: Nymph in thy orisons be all my sins remembered

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: HM Revenue & Customs, 100 Parliament Street

Sandra Blow was born in London and studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London from 1941 to 1946, and at the Royal Academy Painting School in 1947. The following year she studied in Rome and travelled with Alberto Burri. From 1949-50 she travelled in France and Spain. In 1951 she first exhibited at Gimpel Fils gallery in London who continued to exhibited her work throughout the 1950s and 1960s. From 1960 to 1975 Blow was a Visiting Tutor at Royal College of Art and became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1971 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1983. In 1994 she had a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy followed by a retrospective at the Tate in 2001. She died aged 80 in 2006.

Places

Subjects

Shakespeare, William, drama, theatre, actor/actress

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

Sandra Blow (1925 - 2006)

Title

“Hamlet”: Nymph in thy orisons be all my sins remembered

Portfolio Title

Shakespeare

Edition

6/50

Date

1964

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

height: 51.00 cm, width: 38.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Editions Alecto, July 1964

Inscription

below image: 6/50 / Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 Line 89 / Sandra Blow

GAC number

6598