John Tallis, Tragedies, Illustration #19

Mr. T Mead as Iachimo

Caption: ‘IACH: All of her, that is out of door, most rich!
If she is furnished with a mind so rare,
She is alone the Arabian bird; and I
Have lost the wager’ CYMBELINE Act 1, Sc. 7.’

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Illustrator: Engraved by T. Sherratt from a Daguerreotype by R. Hogg

Original Illustration Size: 236 x 150mm / 9″8 x 5″28

Illustration Number: 19/26

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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