This hand-colored lithograph is a portrait of a man, probably Edmund Kean, dressed in a lavish medieval costume, performing Richard III by William Shakespeare. He is reclining on the floor with a ...

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England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the beautiful countess Koefeld, wife of the Danish ...

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