'All the world's a stage...', London, c1824. Artist: W Taylor

'All the world's a stage...', London, c1824. Artist: W Taylor

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'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players, London, c1824' Shows a group of amputees, jugglers, street musicians etc., at the corner of Golden Lane. On the left a black one-legged fiddler; before him on the ground a cloud Reminiscences, on his right a Notice to vagrants. Probably an allusion to the Vagrancy Act, 1824.

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