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As You Like It By William Shakespeare Illustrated by Hugh Thomson Curated by Sara Hoegen

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As You Like It

By William ShakespeareIllustrated by Hugh Thomson

Curated by Sara Hoegen

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William Shakespeare; Illustrated by Hugh Thomson

As You Like It

Hodder and Stroughton of London in 1909, number 334 of 500 copies, signed by Hugh Thomson

From Shakespeare’s first folio, As You Like It was written around 1600. Although not the most highly regarded or acclaimed of Shakespeare’s plays, this pastoral comedy provided Thomson with a great amount of inspiration for his beautifully detailed, tipped-in and covered drawings.

There are 40 mounted color plates under captioned tissue guards that protect these wonderfully detailed illustrations. The title page and introductions to sections also provide the reader some pleasure though their intricately penned designs interweaved with quotations from the text.

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There are 40 mounted color plates under captioned tissue guards that protect these wonderfully detailed illustrations. The title page and introductions to sections also provide the reader some pleasure though their intricately penned designs interweaved with quotations from the text.

Thomson’s drawings were exhibited on several occasions from the early 1890s and onward, the first was a joint exhibition with Kate Greenaway at the Fine Art Society in 1891.J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan (and many other outstanding works that were overshadowed by that better known work) was a great admirer of Hugh Thomson and his works. Writing to M. H. Spiellman, who wrote the memoir of Hugh Thomson, Hugh Thomson: his art, his letters, his humor and his charm, with Walter Jerrold in 1931, he noted:He was a man who drew affection at first sight, so unworldly, so diffident, you smile over him and love him as if he were one of his own delicious pictures. What the man was came out in his face and in all his attractive ways; it might be said of him that he was himself the best picture he ever made. His heart was the gentlest, the most humorous and so was he…

Student Curator: Sara Hoegen

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