Mr Couldock as Iago

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Caption: ‘IAGO: O you are well tuned now!
But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am.’ OTHELLO. Act 2, Sc. 1.

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Illustrator: Engraved by T. Sherratt from a Daguerreotype by Mr Blees & Germon, Philadelphia

Original Illustration Size: 210 x 161mm / 8″14 x 6″10

Illustration Number: 11/26

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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