[Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare] [graphic] / Martin Droeshout sculpsit London.
1632
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Details
Title
[Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare] [graphic] / Martin Droeshout sculpsit London.
Variant title
Book title: Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies, published according to the true originall coppies, the second impression
Also known as: First folio portrait of Shakespeare
Also known as: Title page portrait of Shakespeare
Also known as: First folio portrait of Shakespeare
Also known as: Title page portrait of Shakespeare
Edition
[State 3 of 4].
Created/published
London : Printed by Tho. Coates, for Robert Allot, 1632.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.
Associated name
Droeshout, Martin, 1601- printmaker.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Material base
paper
Note
Title supplied by cataloger.
State from Hind.
Engraved portrait on the otherwise letterpress title page to Shakespeare's Second Folio.
Allot title number 1, before "coppies" changed to "copies" (see Smith, Robert Metcalf. The Variant Issues of Shakespeare's Second Folio ... 1928 p. 13-14).
State from Hind.
Engraved portrait on the otherwise letterpress title page to Shakespeare's Second Folio.
Allot title number 1, before "coppies" changed to "copies" (see Smith, Robert Metcalf. The Variant Issues of Shakespeare's Second Folio ... 1928 p. 13-14).
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014. Shakespeare's the Thing.
Cited/described in
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Calendar of the Shakespearean rarities, drawings & engravings formerly preserved at Hollingbury Copse (1891), 219
Hind, A.M. Engraving in England, II, p. 354-359
Hind, A.M. Engraving in England, II, p. 354-359
Genre/form
Portraits, Male.
Title pages.
Prints.
Title pages.
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
ART Box D783 no.2 (size S)
Folger-specific note
Removed from Halliwell-Phillips volume labeled "The Proof Engraving of Droeshout's Portrait of Shakespeare, 1623."