Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7), March 1, 1866, Mezzotint, etching and stipple on chine colle; proof, Image: 20 11/16 in. ? 34 in. (52. 5 ? 86. 3 cm), Prints, After Sir John Everett Millais (British, Southampton 1829?1896 London), Here, Hamlet?s rejected lover, her mind unhinged, has fallen into a brook while picking wildflowers. Inspired by an evocative description of Ophelia?s death in Shakespeare?s Hamlet (act 4, scene 7), Millais painted the subject for a London Royal Academy exhibition in 1852; this masterful print reproduces that composition