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Not So Easily Played Upon.
U. S. G. "Will you play upon this pipe?" / C. S. "My lord, I can not." / U. S. G. "Tis as easy as lying, govern these vantages with your fingers and thumb, / give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these / are the stops." / C. S. "But these can not I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill." / U. S. G. "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play / upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; / you would sound me to my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, / excellent voice, in this little organ; yet can not you make it speak. Why, do you think, I / am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret / me, you can not play upon me." -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene II.
Location
Museum of the City of New York/New York, NY/USA
Unique Identifier
MNY4414
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
4385px × 6300px
Photo Credit
The Museum of the City of New York / Art Resource, NY
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Carl Schurz (1829-1906)
HARPER'S WEEKLY
Political cartoons
Politicians
Politics & government
Presidents
print (visual work)
Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant (1822-1885)
wood engraving (print)