The Droeshout portrait or Droeshout engraving is a portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by Martin Droeshout as the frontispiece for the title page...
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identified as him, although both may be posthumous. The Droeshout portrait. An engraving by Martin Droeshout as title-page to the collected works of Shakespeare...
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Martin Droeshout (/ˈdruːʃaʊt/; April 1601 – c. 1650) was an English engraver of Flemish descent, who is best known as illustrator of the title portrait for...
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playwright (see below). The Cobbe portrait, and even more so the Janssen copy, bears a compositional similarity with the Droeshout engraving published in the...
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time of the publication. Since the man in the Chandos portrait resembles the one in the Droeshout engraving, the similarity lends an indirect legitimacy...
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to describe how the Sanders Portrait does not seem to resemble the Droeshout portrait or the Shakespeare funerary bust at Stratford-upon-Avon, both of which...
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portraits, as well as misattributions, re-paintings, and relabelling of portraits of other people. Some scholars suggest that the Droeshout portrait,...
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third flyleaf beneath Ben Jonson's verse referencing Martin Droeshout's famous portrait engraving of Shakespeare on the facing page. Inscribed in ink...
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Shakespeare's published plays. It is similar to, and most likely a copy of, the Droeshout engraving, which appeared in 1623 in the first folio publication of Shakespeare's...
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to the folio with this poem addressed "To the Reader" facing the Droeshout portrait engraving: This Figure, that thou here ſeeſt put, It vvas for gentle...
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