Abbey's Keen, Insightful Eye

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 1, 1994| Author: Hank Burchard | Copyright information

SOME GUYS have all the luck. When Edwin Austin Abbey was a Philadelphia teenager he was so obsessed with Shakespeare that he made up rebuses and riddles based on the Bard's works, and published them under the pen name of Yorick, the dead jester in "Hamlet."

Boys have to grow up, of course, and put away childish things. But when Abbey (1852-1911) was only 26 he was sent to England by Harper's Magazine to do illustrations for a book of Elizabethan poetry. He spent most of the rest of h...

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