books0977:Amy Manson as Elizabeth Siddal, model for John Everett Millais’ Ophelia (1851-1852) in Des
books0977:Amy Manson as Elizabeth Siddal, model for John Everett Millais’ Ophelia (1851-1852) in Desperate Romantics (2009).The scene depicted in Millais’ Ophelia is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act IV, Scene vii, in which Ophelia, driven out of her mind when her father is murdered by her lover Hamlet, drowns herself in a stream. Flame-haired hat-shop girl turned model/muse Lizzie Siddal models for Ophelia in a full bath partially warmed by candles. -- source link
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