John Tallis, Comedies, Illustration #12

Mr J. P. Harley as Touchstone

Caption: ‘So-so is good, very good, very excellent good: – and yet it is not, it is but so-so. Art thou wise?’ AS YOU LIKE IT Act 5, Sc 1.

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Illustrator: Engraved by Hollis from a Daguerreotype by Mayall

Original Illustration Size: 224 x 154mm / 8″24 x 6″0

Illustration Number: 12/21

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 / Comedies.

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

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