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William Harnett: Memento Mori, "To This Favour"  wikidata:Q60469478 reasonator:Q60469478
Artist
William Michael Harnett
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Title
Memento Mori, "To This Favour"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
The Latin term memento mori describes a traditional subject in art that addresses mortality. In Harnett’s example, the extinguished candle, spent hourglass, and skull symbolize death. A quote from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, inscribed on the inside cover of a tattered book, reinforces the theme. It comes from the play’s famed graveyard scene where Hamlet discovers a skull and grimly ponders his beloved Ophelia, ironically unaware that she is already dead. The "paint" in the quote not only refers to Ophelia’s makeup, but also wittily evokes the artifice of Harnett’s picture.
Date 1879
date QS:P571,+1879-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Framed: 77.9 x 98.4 x 8.6 cm (30 11/16 x 38 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 61.3 x 81.5 cm (24 1/8 x 32 1/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
American Painting and Sculpture
Accession number
1965.235
Place of creation America, 19th century
Credit line Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
References https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.235 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.235

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