Mr. Creswick as Hotspur

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Caption: ‘HOT: Ha! you shall see now, in very sincerity of fear and cold
heart, will he to the king and lay open all our proceedings.’ KING HENRY IV. PART 1, Act 2, Sc 3.

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

Original Illustration Size: 157 x 117mm / 6″6 x 4″20

Illustration Number: 7/22

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 / Histories.

Published: London; New York: Printed and published by John Tallis and company [1850].

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