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Shearjashub Spooner|Robert Thew|Henry Fuseli|John & Josiah Boydell|William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus and the Ghost (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4)

first published 1796; reissued 1852
Stipple engraving; fourth state of four
43.2 × 59.5 cm (17 × 23.4 in)

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