Miss Vandenhoff as Juliet

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Caption: ‘JUL: Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun _____.  Act 3, Sc. 2.

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Illustrator: Engraved by Hollis from a Daguerreotype by Paine of Islington

Original Illustration Size: 225 x 158mm / 8″26 x 6″4

Illustration Number: 16/26

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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