{"id":1914,"date":"2010-07-01T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2025-01-12T21:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T21:21:55","slug":"lady-ophelia-of-old-malden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/lady-ophelia-of-old-malden\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Ophelia of Old Malden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ophelia-1851-Millais.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1915\" title=\"Ophelia 1851 Millais\" src=\"https:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ophelia-1851-Millais-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNews today that an amateur art-historian, Barbara Webb, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/art\/art-news\/7863332\/Mystery-of-location-of-Millais-Ophelia-solved.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identified the location<\/a> which pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais used as background for his 1851 painting of the drowned Ophelia. \u00a0The location is on the Hogsmill River at Old Malden in south London.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a long way from Elsinore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The after-life of this image has been immense, at least in the English-speaking world.\u00a0 For instance, a print of the painting appears on the wall of the room rented by George Eastman, the humble protagonist of George Stevens&#8217; 1951 movie, <em>A Place in the Sun<\/em>, a film of Theodore Dreiser&#8217;s novel,<em> An American Tragedy<\/em>.\u00a0 I took the presence of the print on Eastman&#8217;s wall not only as prophecy of the tragedy to come, but also as a reference to Hamlet, since Eastman, as he is played by Montgomery Clift,\u00a0is undecided between his two lovers and the two very different fates which his involvement with them entails.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News today that an amateur art-historian, Barbara Webb, has identified the location which pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais used as background for his 1851 painting of the drowned Ophelia. \u00a0The location is on the Hogsmill River at Old Malden in south London.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a long way from Elsinore. The after-life of this image has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-film","p1","y2010","m07","d01","h09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13599,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/13599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}