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Portrait of Shakespeare, whole-length sitting by desk, directed to the left, quill pen in his right hand, his left elbow on books on the desk, in an oval, surrounded by three allegorical women, on plinth; after Thomas Henry Nicholson; frontispiece to 'Complete Works of Shakespeare' edited by Samuel Phelps (London: 1852, Willoughby). Wood-engraving
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