Jacques resting in the Forest of Arden

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Jacques resting in the Forest of Arden
brown and red ink
9 x 13¾ in. (22.8 x 34.9 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Rowlandson's drawing illustrates a passage in Act II, Scene I, of William Shakespeare's As You Like It. The scene describes Jacques 'as he lay along/Under an oak whose antique root peeps out/Upon the brook that brawls along this wood;/To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,/That from the hunters' aim had taken hurt,/Did come to languish'.

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