Caption: ‘HAMLET: Confess yourself to heaven;
Repent what’s past; avoid what is to come;
QUEEN: O, Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heat in twain’ HAMLET. Act 3, Sc. 4.
Illustrator: From a Daguerreotype by Paine of Islington
Original Illustration Size: 246 x 156mm / 9″22 x 6″4
Illustration Number: 5/26
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].