H Beard Print Collection
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
29
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
H Beard Print Collection is a 29 by John James Halls, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows Edmund Kean playing the villainous king in Shakespeare’s Richard III. The artist caught the moment with bold lines and a sharp quote below: “Well, as you guess.” Kean was a famous British actor in the early 1800s. The print came out on March 29, 1814, just after one of his big performances. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum for more prints like this.
A print from 1814 by John James Halls depicts the actor Edmund Kean in the role of Richard III, published by C. Turner, with the quotation "Well, as you guess" placed beneath the image.
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John James Halls (1776–1853) was an English artist.
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