Mr. Macready as Cassius and Mr. E. L. Davenport as Brutus

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Caption: ‘CAS: There is my dagger and here my naked breast’ JULIUS CAESAR. Act 4, Sc. 3.

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Illustrator: Engraved by Hollis. The former from an Original Picture by Reid. The Latter from a Daguerreotype by Mayall

Original Illustration Size: 225 x 160mm / 8″26 x 6″8

Illustration Number: 24/26

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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