All the World’s a Stage / And all the men and women merely players: / They have their exits, and their entrances: / And one Man in his time plays many parts.
drawing, drawing
Accession Number
NAM.1988-05-24-1
Description
All the World’s a Stage / And all the men and women merely players: / They have their exits, and their entrances: / And one Man in his time plays many parts. Wash drawing by John Doyle, 1834. Depicts a caricature of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington as ‘Tragedy’ (with the inscription ‘Waterloo - 1814 [sic] / Up Guards and at them-!’) and ‘Comedy’ (with the inscription ‘Oxford 1834 / Plaectne [sic] vobis. Domini Doctores / Placetne vobis magistri?!!’).
Events
Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815)
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