Mr. Macready as Macbeth

Abstract

Macbeth, 11th century King of Scotland, quotes: "Two truths are told, as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme." Act 1. Sc. 3. Engraved by Sherratt from the original painting by Tracey. ( Tracey may be John Joseph Tracey, a Dublin, Ireland, painter who lived from 1813 to 1873. source: Benezit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculteurs...Paris, Librairie GRUND, 1976. Vol. 10:257.