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Samuel Knight|William Shakespeare|George Cruikshank|Edmund Kean|Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Mr. Kean in the Character of Richard the Third

ca. 1814
Etching, hand-colored
36.3 × 26.4 cm (14.3 × 10.4 in)

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