As you like it. Selections

The seuen ages of man / described by William Shakespeare ; depicted by Robert Smirke.

London : L. Booth, 307 Regent Street W, and S. Ayling, 493 Oxford Street WC, 1864.

London : Printed by J Strangeways & H E Walden, 28 Castle Street, Leicester Square.

XXIII pages : illustrations ; 15 x 15 cm

BAC PR2883 .S4 1864: Bound in publisher's blind- and gold-stamped red cloth.

The portraits and plates are albumen photographs.

Pairs lines of Jacques' "All the world's a stage" monologue (from William Shakespeare's As you like it, act 2, scene 7) with photographic reproductions of Robert Smirke's painting series "The seven ages of man," based on the same monologue. Smirke originally painted the works for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.

English

June 01, 2002

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations.