The Late Miss Laura Addison as Imogen

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Caption: ‘IMO: So far I read aloud:
But even the very middle of my heart
Is warmed by the rest, and takes it thankfully.
You are as welcome, worthy sir, as I
Have words to bid you; and shall find it so
In all that I can do.’ CYMBELINE Act 1, Sc. 7.

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

Original Illustration Size: 228 x 155mm / 9″0 x 6″2

Illustration Number: 18/26

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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