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Advertising Poster Hamlet Opera Ambroise Thomas Shakespeare - Original antique advertising poster for the French grand opera Hamlet, composed by Ambroise Thomas, featuring an artwork by Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) converted to lithograph by Emile Vernier, depicting ghostly apparition of Hamlet's father looking at Hamlet with Horacio, with Ophelia floating in the water below. Hamlet premiered at the Paris Opera in 1868; the French libretto was written by Michel Carre and Jules Barbier, who adapted the story from a French stage translation of William Shakespeare's play by Alexandre Dumas, pere, and Paul Meurice. Printed by Bertauts, Paris. Fair condition, staining, repaired tears, creasing, pinholes, handwriting in pen, reinforced corner pieces, backed on old linen, linen wrapped over edges. Country of issue: France, designer: Emile Vernier, size (cm): 78x57, year of printing: 1868.