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Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Quote: "He dies upon my scimetar's [sic] sharp point, / That touches this my first-born son and heir!" Act 4, sc. 2.

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Date circa 1852
date QS:P,+1852-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Library of Congress
Author From a daguerreotype by Paine of Islington. Printed by The London Printing and Publishing Company.
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current05:08, 11 July 2010Thumbnail for version as of 05:08, 11 July 20103,524 × 5,792 (9.04 MB)Adam CuerdenReverted to version as of 05:22, 10 July 2010 Ink is naturally warm in colour; greyscale doesn't capture that
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