-
engraving is
signed under the
image at the left, "Martin
Droeshout. sculpsit. London". The
Droeshouts were a
family of
artists from the Netherlands, who had...
- In 1623, in
conjunction with the
publication of the
First Folio, the
Droeshout engraving was published.
Shakespeare has been
commemorated in many statues...
-
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...
-
Martin Droeshout (/ˈdruːʃaʊt/;
April 1601 – c. 1650) was an
English engraver of
Flemish descent, who is best
known as
illustrator of the
title portrait...
-
created by
Martin Droeshout and was
probably commissioned by Shakespeare's
friends and family. It is
considered likely that the
Droeshout engraving is a...
- 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...
- even more so the
Janssen copy,
bears a
compositional similarity with the
Droeshout engraving published in the
First Folio of 1623. The
original or copy may...
- "To the Reader"
commending the
First Folio engraving of
Shakespeare by
Droeshout as a good likeness.
Included in the
prefatory commendatory verses was...
- The
Spiritual Warfare (c. 1623), a
print by
Martin Droeshout depicting the Devil's army
besieging a
walled city, held by a "Christian
Soldier bold" guarded...
-
preface to the
folio with this poem
addressed "To the Reader"
facing the
Droeshout portrait engraving: This Figure, that thou here ſeeſt put, It vvas...
