Mr. M’Kean Buchanan as Macbeth

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Caption: ‘MAC: ______’ To be thus is nothing:
But to be safely thus: _____ Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that, which would be fear’d.’
MACBETH. Act 3, Sc. 1.

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Illustrator: Engraved by T. Sherratt from a Daguerreotype by Brunkerhoff of New York

Original Illustration Size: 241 x 156mm / 9″16 x 6″4

Illustration Number: 9/26

Source Text: The complete works of Shakspere : revised from the original editions / with historical and analytical introductions to each play, also notes explanatory and critical, and a life of the poet by J.O. Halliwell … and other eminent commentators ; elegantly and appropriately illustrated by portraits engraved on steel, from daguerreotypes of the greatest and most intellectual actors of the age ; taken in the embodiment of the varied and life-like characters of our great national poet / Tragedies.

Published: London; New York: Printed and published by John Tallis and company [1850].

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