Regency gentleman in costume as Hamlet proposing to a lady near a fountain, while her father protests. Proteus in Love: Nature his Prompter and Go to a Nunnery Go far from his thoughts. Handcoloured engraving etched by Theodore Lane from Pierce Egan’s The Life of an Actor, Pickering and Chatto, London, 1892.

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