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"King Lear," Act I, Scene I
Edwin Austin Abbey
1898
Lear
Boardman Robinson
1938
King Lear
William Sharp
1783
Design for Stage Scene: King Lear
Edward Gordon Craig
block cut 1908, printed 1923
King Lear Alotting His Kingdom to His Three Daughters
Julia Margaret Cameron
1872
David Garrick as King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 1)
James McArdell
1761
Cordelia and King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–40
King Lear and Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7)
Francesco Bartolozzi
ca. 1783
Mr. Garrick in the Character of King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 1)
James McArdell
1761
King Lear Casting Out His Daughter Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)
Richard Earlom
first published 1792; reissued 1852
King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3)
Francis Legat
August 1, 1792
Lear and Kent
Boardman Robinson
1938
Lear with Cordelia
Boardman Robinson
1938
Lear and the Fool on the Heath
Boardman Robinson
1938
Lear with his Daughter and Fool
Boardman Robinson
1938
Mr. Fleming as Edgar: "Away! the foul fiend follows me" (King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)
Samuel Hollyer
1855
King Lear from Shakespeare Characters (N311)
P.H. Mayo & Brother, Richmond, Virginia
ca.1880–90
Sketches of Two Sentry Types; Male and Female Monarch Types [male possibly King Lear] (from Sketchbook)
Thomas Sully
1810–20
"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)
William Sharp
1793
Male with a staff in a storm (recto). Anatomical studies of a foot (verso)
William Hamilton
1770–80
William Shakespeare (formerly known as)
Richard Earlom
ca. 1770
Edgar, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"
John Hamilton Mortimer
May 20, 1775
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol 8, containing Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, Pericles, King Lear
William Shakespeare
1805
Charles Hay Cameron, Esq., in His Garden at Freshwater
Julia Margaret Cameron
1865–67
Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
James Gillray
June 20, 1789
Savitri
India, West Bengal, Calcutta
ca. 1885–90
Disc-shaped macehead
ca. 3850–3500 B.C.
Savitri
West Bengal, Calcutta
1878–1883
Monkey Dandy, from Monkey-ana, or Men in Miniature
Thomas Landseer
July 1828
Lawrence Barrett as King Lear, Actor from the Buchner "Gold Coin" Tobacco series (N284)
D. Buchner & Co., New York
ca.1887
Eastern Patriarch [King Lear]
James Barry
1803
Eastern Patriarch [King Lear]
James Barry
1803–6
Design for a Vase Honoring a Shakespearean Tragic Actor
John Flaxman
18th–19th century
Curtain
British
ca. 1790
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
Salvador Dalí
1954