‘What you cannot, as you would achieve, you must perforce accomplish as you may’
watercolour, drawing
Accession Number
NAM.1974-05-69-147-1
Description
‘What you cannot, as you would achieve, you must perforce accomplish as you may’. Watercolour drawing by Maj Thomas Strong Seccombe, 1880 (c). Associated with the 1st Life Guards. For the series, ‘Military Misreadings of Shakespeare’, published by George Routledge, 1880 (c). A Life Guardsman falls from his horse as his regiment advances. The quote is from ‘Titus Andronicus’, Act 2 Scene 1, and is spoken by Aaron.
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