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The actors monument / painted by Smith ; engraved by G. & C. Hunt.

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The actors monument / painted by Smith ; engraved by G. & C. Hunt.

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Summary

Print shows the actor Edmund Kean standing with another man, elsewhere identified as "the physician who attended Mr. Cooke in his last illness", next to the monument Kean had erected in honor of George Frederick Cooke in the cemetery at St. Paul's Church, New York City, New York. Includes 14 of 16 lines of verse by W.T. Moncrieff and a bust portrait of Cooke, facing left, in oval.

Caption continues: The late Edmund Kean Esqre. contemplating the tomb he caused to be erected to the memory of George Frederick Cooke, in Saint Paul's Church yard, New York, America.
Trimmed to within the plate marks and at bottom trimmed above final line of verse of each stanza and the publication statement.
Imprint information taken from a print available online through the New York Public Library's digital gallery.

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01/01/1833
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Contributors

Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist
Moncrieff, W. T. (William Thomas), 1794-1857.
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Library of Congress
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