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AL HIRSCHFELD Tamburlaine the Great.
Pen and ink on illustration board, 1956. 445x545 mm; 17 1/2x21 1/2 inches. Signed and inscribed "Toronto, Canada" in ink, lower right recto, and captioned lower margin.
The caption reads "Anthony Quayle as (Talmur the Lame) 'Tamburlaine the Great'--at the height of his power having successfully risen from shepherd and thief to conqueror of Persia,Turkey, Egypt and all Asia.--Glutted and corrupted by power he is here depicted being borne triumphantly on a chariot pulled by the defeated kings of Asia--King Trebizond and King of Soria. Published in the New York Times, January 15, 1956.
