H Beard Print Collection
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
H Beard Print Collection is a 1850 by John Robertson Reid, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows Charles Kean playing Gloucester in a famous Shakespeare scene. The image comes from a series published by John Tallis & Company. The actor Charles Kean was a leading Shakespearean star in the 1800s. This print captures him in Act I Scene I of Richard III. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more prints from this series.
The print portrays Charles Kean in the role of Gloucester during the opening scene of Act I in *Richard III*. It was published by John Tallis & Company as part of the H Beard Print Collection.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Robertson Reid (6 August 1851 – 10 February 1926) was a Scottish painter who spent his early working life in Surrey, and then from the early 1880s in Cornwall in the wild south-west of England.
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