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The Shakspeare Commemoration at Stratford-On-Avon: visit to Charlecote, 1864. Celebrating the tercentenary of William Shakespeare's birth. View of '...the famous mansion of Charlecote, visited by many hundreds of people on this occasion'. Shakespeare was said to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man, and to have been brought before the magistrates. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. The Shakspeare Commemoration at Stratford-On-Avon: visit to Charlecote, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)