EditorialWilliam Shakespeare, Print made by Martin Droeshout the younger, 1601after 1650, British, 1632, Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.
EditorialWilliam Shakespeare. An engraved title-page portrait of the author signed: "Martin· Droeshout: sculpsit· London." There is a shadow on the collar. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall c...
EditorialWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616). English playwright, poet and actor. Portrait. The titlepage, which bears the portrait of Shakespeare, engraved by Droeshout, is preceded by a leaf containing verses “To the Reader,” signed, B. I. [i.e. Ben Jonson]....
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EditorialPortrait of William Shakespeare, 1623. This frontispiece to the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works is one of the earliest portraits of the poet. Droeshout must have worked from a painting or drawing of Shakespeare as a young man, as he himself ...