Rosalind Gives Orlando Her Necklace

by Émile-Antoine Bayard

$2,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Signed

Paris?, c. 1887 . India ink, wash, gouache and pencil on paperboard, 15” x 11” plus margins; signed, lower left. CONDITION: Good, some light discoloration to image, residual glue and surface loss to margins from early matting. The elegant, original illustration for the frontispiece to the International Shakespeare edition of As You Like It London: Cassell & Co., 1887 .The moment depicted here occurs in Act 1,

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